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The No-Win Conundrum Of The Golden Globes’ #MeToo Red Carpet

If This Young Drag Queen Is The Future, We're Feeling Great About 2018

Victoria's Secret

The Biggest Drama During Tonight’s Victoria’s Secret Show Won’t Be Aired

There Were So Many Chinese Designers This NYFW

Up-and-coming fashion designers often work at least a decade apprenticing in the shadows of someone else’s label before they’re able to set off for

The Big Business Of Street Style Bait

It is Fashion Week, and I am crouching behind an overflowing rubbish bin, trying to make myself invisible. I’m hiding so I can avoid getting in the shot

The Future Is Now: Examining Fashion’s Love Affair With Dystopian...

I have a box of Soylent sitting atop my kitchen cabinets — the ironically named drinkable meal replacement that’s engineered to deliver maximum

Stop Quoting The Cerulean Speech Because It’s Not Even Right

If you want to see how far a fashion editor’s eyes go back, try and recite the cerulean speech at her. There is no fashion quotable that is more widely

Disappearing Polos: The Terror Of Blending In — & Getting Away Wi...

In a video full of grotesque words and racist chants, the most horrifying part of the Charlottesville reel posted by documentarian CJ Hunt on GQ was

Why Women Are Swiping Left On America’s Most Popular Men’s Haircut

This story was originally published on 3rd February 2017. Short on the sides, and long on top: the undercut; the Macklemore — it’s the slicked-back

Why The Mallpocalypse Hasn't Come For The Mall Of America

When The Mall of America opened 25 years ago this week, the media panned it as a really dumb idea. For one, they said, it was too much a gimmick. The

Heading To The Edges Of The World For A Shoe Selfie

There was a moment before the helicopter took off, my hands pawing along the perimeters of the hole in the side of the aircraft where a door should have

This Is What You Should Be Wearing When You Fly

There's something to be said about the woman who still dresses to the nines at the airport. She's elegant, she's evolved, and she respects the glamour of

Excuse Me, Where Are You Going In Those Ruffles?

Ruffles are the pickles of clothing — you either love them or can't stand them. There is no casual acceptance of ruffles; people do not feel lukewarm

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Khloé Kardashian Sends Destiney Bleu A Cease & Desist, But Bleu H...

Update: We've amended the story with an official statement from Good American. Khloé Kardashian, founder of denim label Good American, sent indie

J.Crew's Mickey Drexler Steps Down As CEO

Two months after J.Crew’s much-beloved president and creative director Jenna Lyons left the company, WWD reported on Monday that the company's CEO

To The Chinese, Ivanka Trump Is A Genetic, Generational & Caucasi...

It would not be nice, but it would also not be unfair to describe Ivanka Trump, who is tall and blonde with supermodel proportions, as the Platonic ideal

Something's Happened To Retouching Recently, & It’s Time You...

When the topic of photo retouching comes up, it always begins and ends with an assumption: It's bad for women. It's someone screwing up and badly

Why Fashion's Most Influential Brand Never Shows Up On The R...

Designer Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garcons is like the sun: life-giving and nurturing, but too intense for most people to look at directly without some

Millennial Russian Women Tell Us What They Think About Trump'...

Suffice it to say, things are complicated right now between America and Russia. The massive country has emerged as one of the most important players (and

The Oscar De La Renta Drama That Started It All...

Laura Kim was a star student at Pratt Institute. “She could do no wrong,” admitted fellow Pratt classmate and designer Adam Selman to The New York

Baddie Winkle, The 87 Year-Old Raver Culture Icon

Helen Van Winkle is 87 years old. On some days, she likes to wear floral dresses and drop earrings. On others, she’ll wear a sweatshirt plastered with a

4 Young Afghan Women Fighting For The Right To Exist

The right to divorce. The right to make your own reproductive decisions. The right to an abuse-free marriage. As women in Western nations, we take these

The Fashion Guide To The Weather Report

This story was originally published on August 4, 2014. Even though we've all experienced most temperatures, we have selective memory about what they're

Here’s The Actual Reason Last Night’s Red Carpet Was So Boring

If you believe that fashion is a reflection of our times, you would have tuned into the Oscars last night expecting to see the sartorial version of the

10 Women Share Their Sexy Selfie Tips

It seems easy enough: Wake up, don’t get dressed, unplug your phone, and snap a quick photo. But the reality of the matter is that a sexy selfie that

We Took A GoPro Inside A Couture Atelier Right Before Showtime

Even though couture looks like pure fantasy — dresses made of fog, shimmering fabrics spun with liquid gemstones, with price-tags only princesses could

What We Wore To The Women's March On Washington

Today's Women's March on Washington was one of the largest demonstrations in American history (and we're not even counting all the people who attended the

Artist Jean Jullien Designs A Symbol For The Next Four Years

When things feel overwhelming, many of us turn outward to see how friends and peers are coping, and to seek out digestible bits of insight that might

What's Stopping The Most Relevant Style Subculture From Going Mai...

I’ve spent many years helping dozens of friends shop to achieve a new look, dress for a new job, or find an outfit for a special occasion. And though

What People Wore To A Music Festival Held In A 17th Century India...

Here's the set-up: Three days in the desert, standing (or sitting) in clusters, listening to rock bands, and sipping on sun-warmed beer. It’s an