I’m Moving to a New City. Do I Have to Change the Way I Dress?
A reader who is moving cross-country wonders how to adapt his wardrobe without compromising his sense of style.
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A reader who is moving cross-country wonders how to adapt his wardrobe without compromising his sense of style.
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The Princess of Wales made her first public appearance since coming forward with her cancer diagnosis.
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In an exclusive interview, the designer reveals why he is retiring, his fears and why fashion is “an addiction.”
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In a visual age, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee is making himself into the 51st star.
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A Designer Turns His Passion for Mountaineering Into New Pursuits
Ramdane Touhami recently restyled a hotel in the Swiss Alps and opened a hiking supply store in Paris. He says they are only the beginning.
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The Miniature Secrets of Championship Rings
More diamonds isn’t enough. One jeweler is wowing sports teams with reversible faces and detachable compartments.
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Françoise Hardy, the Ultimate Symbol of ‘French Girl’ Style
The singer-songwriter, actress and fashion muse, who died this week, inspired obsession in her nonchalance.
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At the Ambani Wedding Celebrations, a Dazzling Display of Jewels
Emeralds almost the size of Popsicles, ropes of the rarest natural pearls and rani haar pieces studded with diamonds were throwbacks to the time of maharajahs.
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On Canal Street, Fake Bags That Are Not for Sale
A new exhibition that looks like a store is meant to draw attention to the prevalence of “superfake” handbags.
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has a secret weapon up his rolled-up shirt sleeves.
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Stormy Daniels as We Had Never Seen Her
During her time on the stand in former President Donald J. Trump’s criminal trial, the adult entertainer dressed for history — and a jury.
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The Meta-morphosis of Mark Zuckerberg
The robotic nerd depicted in “The Social Network” has turned into the kinder, more accessible face of Silicon Valley. What’s going on?
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The Trumpification of Kristi Noem
The South Dakota governor’s new teeth are just the latest step in a very MAGA makeover.
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Whatever Happens at the Super Bowl, She’s Already Won
Taylor Swift helped Kristin Juszczyk turn the stadium tunnel into the new fashion runway, and Sunday’s game will be the ultimate show.
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How to Meditate When You Can’t Sit Still
Closing your eyes and focusing on breathing can be hard for those who are easily distracted. But it is possible.
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Feeling Dismissed? How to Spot ‘Medical Gaslighting’ and What to Do About It.
Experts share tips on advocating for yourself in a health care setting.
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Can’t Talk, I’m Busy Being Hot
A social media movement inspired by the rapper Megan Thee Stallion strikes back at the gatekeepers of beauty.
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You Can’t Outrun Athletic Greens
In the oversaturated world of wellness, the company has forced itself to the front with prolific podcast ads and a network of influencers.
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The Worst Foods and Drinks for Your Teeth
When assessing how likely a given meal, snack or drink is to harm your dental health, there are two main things to consider, experts say.
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What Do Gen Z Shoppers Want? A Cute, Cheap Outfit That Looks Great on Instagram
Three young women shoppers in three countries talk about what they buy, where they buy it and why.
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Fashion Nova’s Secret: Underpaid Workers in Los Angeles Factories
The online retailer makes fast fashion for the Instagram elite. The way many of its garments are made is much less glamorous.
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Garment workers around the world make everything from luxury handbags to fast fashion leggings. Here are some of their stories.
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H&M’s Different Kind of Clickbait
The Swedish retailer now lets customers know where nearly every garment it sells is made. Is that enough?
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We make too much and buy too much. But maybe there is a way not to waste too much. The ragpicker of Brooklyn has an idea.
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Ask Vanessa Friedman Your Burning Style Questions
Each week, The Times’s fashion director and chief fashion critic will answer a fashion query — for men or women — in our new fashion newsletter.
Is This the Future of the Fashion Show?
The first “high fashion runway show entirely from home” just took place, complete with famous models and designers. The clothes were the least of it.
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The Politics of Dress at the State of the Union
Congresswomen in white. Melania Trump in Dolce & Gabbana. Can anyone opt out of fashion messaging any more?
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How Will You Look When You Emerge From the Pandemic?
Now that the masks are coming off, here are some easy approaches you can take to dress up your face.
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How Barely-There Botox Became the Norm
Will starting injections in your 20s and 30s make you look older? Preventive Botox explained.
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Essential Oils May Be Wreaking Havoc on Your Skin
When it comes to clean beauty, “natural” isn’t always best. Here’s what’s safe and beneficial, and what’s best to avoid.
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Bahrain Celebrates Its History as a Pearling Center
A new walking trail in Muharraq explains a legacy of the gem dating to the Bronze Age.
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Bringing Out the Softer Side of Stone
The British jeweler Charlotte De Syllas carves gems into unconventional forms.
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Jewelry Often Has a Message, but Sometimes It’s Hard to Find
The old practice of hiding words or symbols, or engraving letters too small to be read, has come into favor again.
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An Often Unseen Setting Reappears
High jewelry designers are bringing metals back into view so the work is not just about the gemstone.
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Cindy Chao Credits Her Success to Perseverance
The jewelry brand is turning 20, boosted by expanding its focus increasingly toward Asian clients.
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Spring Means It’s Time to Plant Edinburgh’s Floral Clock
The Scottish capital has maintained this mix of horology and horticulture since its installation in 1903.
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Edinburgh’s Time Ball Will Fall Again
The time signaling device, which hasn’t been operating in recent years, is being restored as part of the renovation of a Calton Hill monument.
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When Watchmakers Team Up With Pritzker Prize Winners
Architects say they find a certain affinity between designing major structures and smaller items to wear on the wrist.
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A Watchmaker Who Seizes the Moment
Ups and downs in the industry, coupled with a tragic loss, have taught Ludovic Ballouard that the most important time is now.
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An Exhibition to Show ‘Young Guys What We Have Been Doing’
The independent watchmaker Kari Voutilainen was dubious about a show in Finland, but then he decided, “why not?”
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How Those Colorful Azulejo Tiles Are Made
A tradition dating back centuries survives in Portugal as artists and companies fill private and public commissions for the celebrated designs.
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An Italian Maker Crafts Umbrellas With Personality
A handmade, bespoke umbrella is “a bit like a business card” for its owner, according to Carlo Suino.
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A Portuguese Jeweler Focuses Solely on Hand Work
Rosior, a family business, does not even use computer design programs.
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Lisbon Museum Houses a René Lalique Collection
A wealthy businessman’s acquisitions include a gem-studded diadem and large dragonfly brooch.
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The Last Gold Beater in Venice
In the 1700s, there were about 300 artisans making gold leaf in the city. Now there is just Marino Menegazzo, who is also one of very few remaining in Europe.
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The event gave Broadway stars a chance to step out of their costumes and into outfits that showcased personal style.
By The Styles Desk
The rings, passed down by her mother, remind the author of the connection she has to her ancestors.
By Amelia Diamond
The actress, who lent her name to a new line by A.P.C., cares mostly about dressing practically.
By Ruth La Ferla
Stroll along the river, explore a contemporary art scene and admire panoramic views in this scenic Central European capital.
By Alex Crevar
Plus: a boutique hotel in Philadelphia’s Fishtown, a new line of English knitwear and more recommendations from T Magazine.
By Caitie Kelly
Blake Lively, Jude Law, Selma Blair and many more turned out for the Tribeca Film Festival’s annual artists dinner, ahead of a weekend devoted to Mr. De Niro’s work.
By Melissa Guerrero
The timeless, trend-proof closet staple continues to evolve.
By Zoe Ruffner
Christian Dior, Balenciaga, Chanel, Hermès and Louis Vuitton have turned cruise shows into diplomatic currency.
By Vanessa Friedman
Set in the 1970s, the series depicts the designer’s personal and professional evolution and revolves around an intense love story.
By Elisabeth Vincentelli
Virginie Viard, who replaced Karl Lagerfeld at the French fashion house, spent nearly 30 years at the company.
By Vanessa Friedman and Jessica Testa
The designer Marc Jacobs said he was bullied into renouncing fur — which he claims his brand stopped using in 2018 — after activists targeted his employees.
By Jessica Testa and Vanessa Friedman
Our critic examines the history of women’s trousers and “the sheer ridiculousness of the current state of sizing.”
By Vanessa Friedman
The actress and the supermodel are among the A-listers who have gravitated to the glamorous aesthetic of the merchant-turned-designer Annie Doble.
By Elizabeth Paton
Veronica Leoni will be the first woman to run the brand.
By Vanessa Friedman
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Fall in love with the churches, seafood-heavy cuisine and UNESCO-listed streets of Portugal’s second-largest city.
By Seth Sherwood
Benjamin Talley Smith may well have made the jeans in your closet. And your friend’s closet. And your friend’s friends’.
By Vanessa Friedman
Our fashion critic shares tips for a reader who is hesitant to wear ultrabright clothing.
By Vanessa Friedman
Selkie, a brand known for fairy-tale dresses, has expanded into swimwear with bathing suits full of ruffles, ribbons and ruching.
By Ilana Kaplan
In Sergio Hudson, the first lady is stepping up her fashion diplomacy game.
By Vanessa Friedman
The actress hasn’t said so, but some internet users think she did. Plus, a bleak week for small brands and wedding dresses for fashion-forward brides.
By Elizabeth Paton
She made her own clothes to wear at her husband’s football games. Now she’s dressing the winner of the Indy 500.
By Jessica Testa
Living on opposite sides of the globe didn’t stop them from developing their B/1 timepiece, a nod to Brutalist architecture.
By Ming Liu
Von Doren, which used the game’s notations on the dial of its first watch, plans to introduce a new version of the design this fall.
By Penelope Colston
The tenor Freddie De Tommaso fell in love with opera and timepieces as a young boy. Now he shops for high-end examples in the cities where he performs.
By David Belcher
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Winner of a Challenge prize, the Raymond Weil brand is making a play for the enthusiast audience.
By Tanya Dukes
Plenty of other garments can be used as the basis for simple, chic looks for a variety of occasions, our critic writes.
By Vanessa Friedman
A TikTok movement is calling for followers to block famous people over their stances on the Israel-Hamas war. It began at the Met Gala.
By Elizabeth Paton
This season, fashion is abloom with 3-D blossoms, delicate textures and colors worthy of a bouquet.
By Estelle Hanania and Ian Bradley
It’s twilight time for the era of hoodies and sweats. Make way for another kind of suit, pairing a trucker jacket with matching jeans.
By Guy Trebay
This slow-paced Spanish island offers a quieter and wilder retreat than its more touristy neighbors.
By Yasmin Fahr
Plus: hojicha-infused sweets, ceramic watches and more from T’s cultural compendium.
Spirituality, astrology and a desire to express power over nature are a few of the reasons people seek such motifs, experts say.
By Milena Lazazzera
Since 2009, the creators at Forms have been making unusual and sculptural pieces. The latest inspiration? A Japanese shakudo buckle.
By Jill Newman
The brand’s entrepreneurship program aims to expand opportunities for business owners creating “solutions for change.”
By Nazanin Lankarani
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Ming Lampson focuses on finding and showcasing exceptional gems.
By Smitha Sadanandan
Walid Akkad lives in a French château and has a tiny showroom in Paris and only a handful of photos on Instagram.
By Tina Isaac-Goizé
Hancocks has moved into a renovated Georgian townhouse on St. James’s Street with more space to display its wares as well as its history.
By Sarah Royce-Greensill
“The Prince of Goldsmiths, Rediscovering the Classics” pays special tribute to the founder’s fortuitous meeting with a man who would become his patron.
By Nazanin Lankarani
Jewelers are increasingly exploring the technology’s potential to create new worlds in online campaigns.
By Jessica Bumpus
The 69-year-old TV anchor, who graces a cover of this year’s swimsuit issue, was fine showing dimples but wanted to avoid looking “too boobalicious.”
By Elizabeth Paton
A new portrait of King Charles III is bathed in symbolism.
By Vanessa Friedman
Bright carryalls and cross-bodies enliven any outfit.
By Mari Maeda and Yuji Oboshi
Five trends the artist has spawned, from men baring it all to waterfalls of ooze.
By M.H. Miller
The best fashion from an event with a lot of photo ops.
By Vanessa Friedman
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Turnarounds are hard, especially when the stakes are high. Can Sabato De Sarno deliver the goods with his debut cruise collection at the Tate Modern?
By Elizabeth Paton
Bulgari’s amethyst-encrusted necklace takes its cue from an archival piece worn by the socialite Lyn Revson.
By Lindsay Talbot
Patrick Carroll began making textiles during lockdown. Last year, several of them appeared at a JW Anderson runway show.
By Kurt Soller
Kim Kardashian’s shapewear brand is moving more aggressively into sports.
By Vanessa Friedman
Clothes are repositories of emotions, our critic writes. When is it time to let go?
By Vanessa Friedman
A jewelry brand’s ad campaign has generated buzz for skewering the industry in videos featuring models, editors and, now, Susan Sarandon.
By Ruth La Ferla
Classic men’s suiting makes a fun pairing with sporty separates.
By Alex Huanfa Cheng and Patrick Welde
For one Swiss artisan, creating a sapphire-covered, tuneful automaton for the French jewelry house Van Cleef & Arpels was a yearslong process.
By Megan Conway
The immersive show features fragile dresses inside airtight vitrines, overcoats growing grass, pat-’n-sniff walls and a hologram. Does it work?
By Vanessa Friedman and Jason Farago
The designer Meruert Tolegen started out making children’s wear. Her pieces for adults combine precise construction with a playful spirit.
By Kate Guadagnino
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Usher, Jeff Bezos, Serena Williams, Erykah Badu, Janelle Monáe and other celebrities kept going into the wee hours.
By Jacob Bernstein, Melissa Guerrero and Sadiba Hasan
Despite a rich, class-based theme and calls to disrupt the fashion extravaganza of the year, politics proved no match for the power of the spectacle.
By Vanessa Friedman
How Jeff Bezos, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kris Jenner and other A-listers spent their night in the museum. (Hint: Cucumber margaritas were involved.)
By Katie Van Syckle and Landon Nordeman
At an event where fashion is the focus, these ensembles stood out more than most.
By The Styles Desk
Fashion’s biggest night had to go on without some of its scene-stealing stars from previous years.
By Callie Holtermann
The actress’s second dress, vintage Givenchy couture by John Galliano, was made the year she was born.
By Vanessa Friedman
What better way to distinguish oneself from hundreds of well-dressed competitors than to wear almost nothing at all?
By Callie Holtermann
Viewers online immediately took notice of the cinched waistline.
By Vanessa Friedman
The story behind her semi-recycled red-carpet look.
By Jessica Testa
As expected, protesters gathered near the Met Gala to protest the war in Gaza, creating an atmosphere far different from the one inside the event.
By Madison Malone Kircher, Alex Vadukul and Benjamin Hoffman
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The story behind the Oscar winner’s all-denim look.
By Jessica Testa
The South African singer and songwriter accessorized with a literal hourglass.
By Callie Holtermann
The story behind the archival red-carpet look.
By Jessica Testa
They made a statement about their relationship with matching rose clasps on their suit jackets.
By Gina Cherelus
At the Met Gala, the future Mrs. Bezos tries out a new look.
By Vanessa Friedman
In 1962, J.G. Ballard published “The Garden of Time,” a short story about aristocrats overrun by “an immense rabble.” Now it’s the dress-code theme for the year’s most lavish ball.
By Jim Windolf
The actor went simple but playful with Loewe.
By Guy Trebay
Meet her new incarnation: dress by Oscar de la Renta; makeup by Pat McGrath; hair by Orlando Pita.
By Vanessa Friedman
Ms. Lopez participated in the night’s trend of see-through styles with a Schiaparelli gown featuring over two million hand-embroidered beads.
By Callie Holtermann
The story behind her sequin, bird-covered dress.
By Jessica Testa
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See the looks from fashion’s biggest night.
By The Styles Desk
Designers, athletes and celebrities swapped stories on dress fittings and gala prep routines on the eve of fashion’s biggest party.
By Callie Holtermann
The red carpet featured noncelebrity guests in homemade costumes. “This is a better function, with a better message,” one guest said.
By Alex Vadukul
Who will show up? How will invitees interpret this year’s “Garden of Time” theme? Fashion’s biggest red carpet is finally here.
By Louis Lucero II
The company on Monday reached a tentative contract agreement with unionized employees who said they were willing to disrupt Anna Wintour’s carefully laid plans over stalled negotiations.
By Perri Ormont Blumberg
A reader wants to let his button-ups hang loose, without getting swallowed up by unsightly shirttails.
By Vanessa Friedman
The actress will return to the event for the first time in five years, this time as a host. Take a look at all her previous Met Gala looks.
By Callie Holtermann
The tinted balm was inspired by products that the filmmaker confected as a girl to achieve the “berry-stained lips” of a character in a Roman Polanski movie.
By Ruth La Ferla
A roundup of precious letters, from gothic characters to minimalist medallions.
By Tilly Macalister-Smith
Vanessa Williams’s many ensembles in a music video for her new song, “Legs (Keep Dancing),” evoke her knack for portraying a diva with style.
By Melissa Guerrero
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Tactics to convince people to buy less aren’t working. A quirky new documentary by Patagonia takes a different approach.
By Elizabeth Paton
The boundaries between art, fashion and luxury seem to be melting away. That’s great for brands, but what about artists — and the art?
By Farah Nayeri
Which brother is Chris Hemsworth, again? Meet the co-chairs of the party of the year.
By Callie Holtermann
It’s now impossible to see a cowboy hat or pair of cowboy boots and not think of her.
By Vanessa Friedman
And he has some ideas about what we should wear.
By Vanessa Friedman
A reader tries to square the style’s enduring appeal with her own reluctance to wear them.
By Vanessa Friedman
Scarlett Johansson, Colin Jost and Senator John Fetterman made their entrances at the annual journalism celebration in Washington.
By Vanessa Friedman
Venues across the U.S. and beyond are giving Liz Collins, who first found fame as a fashion designer, the art-world recognition that had eluded her.
By Laura van Straaten
Streetwear’s Black history raconteur survived Kanye, Supreme and a near-death experience. But can he survive the internet?
By Jon Caramanica
The next class of football stars has done some fashion homework, but the evening was pretty tame compared with the N.B.A. draft.
By Guy Trebay
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The feminist activist, who relies mostly on moisturizer, was tapped to promote a beauty campaign about self-acceptance. Plus, a SoHo salon that evokes Southern France.
By Ruth La Ferla
Zendaya breaks hearts in a stylish tennis love triangle.
By The Styles Desk
Nancy Gonzalez, whose clients included Britney Spears and Sofia Vergara, smuggled purses from her native Colombia to the United States using couriers. She will serve 18 months.
By Elizabeth Paton
What’s the dress code, who’s hosting, who’s going and how to watch.
By Vanessa Friedman
In Venice, a coterie of craftspeople reinterpret Tod’s driving shoes.
By Jessica Roy
Posh Spice had a party involving tequila, Tom Cruise, Salma Hayek — and a rare performance by all five Spice Girls.
By Elizabeth Paton
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