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Dividing Along Tribal Lines
By MATTHEW SCHNEIER
Brands such as Isabel Marant, Kenzo and Acne reflect the women who wear them.
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In Their Fashion
By VANESSA FRIEDMAN
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Elsa Schiaparelli, left, in 1935, and Coco Chanel in 1929.
Biographies of Coco Chanel and Elsa Schiaparelli highlight their similarities and their differences.
Michael Schmelling
Lydia Burkhalter's collection of gray sweatshirts.
‘Women in Clothes’
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Reviewed by SASHA WEISS
In “Women in Clothes,” more than 600 women respond to a survey about how they present themselves.
To mark the conclusion of the Women’s Spring 2015 shows, T catalogs the bows of some fashion visionaries.
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Bill Gaytten with the milliner Stephen Jones.
Bill Gaytten, Out From the Shadows Cast by John Galliano
By MATTHEW SCHNEIER
Forced into the forefront, Mr. Gaytten finds his own focus and voice.
Fashion Review
In the End, Perspective
By VANESSA FRIEDMAN
At Paris Fashion Week, Louis Vuitton held its first show in the new Fondation building, Christophe Lemaire sent out his last Hermès collection and Sarah Burton offered an ode to the East at Alexander McQueen.
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The Future? Don’t Get Ahead of Yourself
By MATTHEW SCHNEIER
Collections from Fausto Puglisi at Emanuel Ungaro and Iris van Herpen.
Valerio Mezzanotti for The New York Times
The Chanel fashion protest, designed by Karl Lagerfeld.
Karl Lagerfeld created a fashion demonstration, Hedi Slimane played with his favorite silhouettes and Valentino was inspired by the Grand Tour.
Turn to the Light and Watch Your Back
By VANESSA FRIEDMAN
At Stella McCartney and Chloé, the clothes were relaxed and fluid, while Riccardo Tisci sent out black leather and studs at Givenchy.
Fashion Review
Blood and Roses, Circles and Swans
By VANESSA FRIEDMAN
As Jean Paul Gaultier celebrated, Céline, Undercover, Comme des Garçons and others presented their spring collections.
Fashion Review
A ‘Blank Slate’ Revival at Mugler
By MATTHEW SCHNEIER
David Koma says he wants the brand to make women feel “fierce, cool and sporty.”
Clare Waight Keller of Chloé: Pencils, Pushpins and Paris
By VANESSA FRIEDMAN
The designer describes herself as "slowly invading" her office space.
Esteban Cortazar Returns to the Runway
By SOPHIA J. GONZALEZ
The former teenage prodigy is relaunching his namesake label with a show at Paris Fashion Week. Here, a first look at the spring/summer 2015 collection.
Valerio Mezzanotti for The New York Times
At Dior, Raf Simons continued ideas he first showed at couture in July.
Collections from Raf Simons at Dior, Alber Elbaz at Lanvin, Peter Copping at Nina Ricci and Rick Owens.
Fashion Review
Striving for New Ideas at Loewe
By VANESSA FRIEDMAN
Jonathan Anderson's first full collection for the brand included oversize soft leather trousers, sack dresses and lots of handbags.
Fashion Review
Outside the Spectrum at Chalayan
By ALEXANDRA JACOBS
Mr. Chalayan had some spring references while Issey Miyake, by Yoshiyuki Miyamae, debuted “3-D steam stretch.”
On His Own Terms
By TIM BLANKS
Photograph by Simon Watson. Produced by Marella Caracciolo Chia
Stephan Janson, Milan’s unyieldingly private couturier, in the living room of his apartment wearing a shirt of his own design.
Stephan Janson might have followed in the footsteps of his idol Yves Saint Laurent, but instead chose a quieter life away from the frenzy of the fashion world as a couturier to some of the most discerning women in Europe.
The designer lives and works in his building in Paris's Seventh Arrondissement.
There are few furnishings in the Lanvin designer’s office, but they all play a role in his work.
Valerio Mezzanotti for The New York Times
As the party and auction in Milan pull out the stops, Grace Jones pulls out the wigs, all to raise money for AIDS research.
Valerio Mezzanotti for The New York Times
At Versace, there actually were jackets on the runway.
In Milan, the Bunga Bunga Has Left the Building
By VANESSA FRIEDMAN
Even at Versace, homeland of the Glamazon, it seemed as if sex had left the city.
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Final Trends and Tidbits to Know From Milan
By VANESSA FRIEDMAN
As the shows came to a close, the conversations continued.
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At Prada, the silhouette was lean and the fabrics were brocade and chinoiserie and leather.
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Front Row
The Catwalk Serves as a Billboard
By MATTHEW SCHNEIER
The cost of staging a fashion show may require corporate sponsors.
What Does ‘British’ Style Really Mean?
By VANESSA FRIEDMAN
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Simone Rocha sent out an explosion of red poppies and other blooms.
The old stereotype of crazy creative types no longer really holds true, as designers such as Christopher Kane and Simone Rocha show.
Tom Jamieson for The New York Times
The Burberry collection for spring 2015 included abbreviated denim jackets and floaty skirts.
At Burberry, ‘Contradiction’ and ‘Rebirth’
By VANESSA FRIEDMAN
Christopher Bailey’s collection was occasionally lovely, but repetitive.
Simone Rocha, Born to Fashion, Makes Her Own Mark
By MATTHEW SCHNEIER
Tom Jamieson for The New York Times
Since introducing her first collection in 2010, she has in short order become one of the highlights of London Fashion Week.
The Collection: A Fashion App for the iPad
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Streetscapes
The Store That Slipped Through the Cracks
By CHRISTOPHER GRAY
The Bonwit Teller store is another vanished landmark of a time when the 57th Street area was the destination of the sophisticated shopper.
In L.A., a New Outpost for European Fashion and Art
By SU WU
Paris Berlin, a new East Hollywood space named for its founders’ home cities, is part boutique, part gallery, part performance venue.
Paris Fashion Week Accessories
By ANGELICA ROGERS
Golden brogues with cutouts at Chanel, a cherry-shaped clutch at Undercover and more details from the spring 2015 shows.
Paris Fashion Week Street Style
The street fashion photographer Craig Arend of Altamira NYC took over our Instagram account for the spring 2015 fashion shows. Here are our highlights from Paris Fashion Week. Check out NYTimesFashion on Instagram for more.
On the Runway Blog
A Paris Fashion Week of Farewells
By VANESSA FRIEDMAN
Peter Copping is leaving Nina Ricci, just the latest in a recent series of departures.
Scene City
Scene City: A Final Hurrah to a Fashion Season
Justin Bieber, Karl Lagerfeld and the Kardashians at CR Fashion Book party in Paris.
Scene City
The Star of the Show Is Strapped on a Wrist
By VANESSA FRIEDMAN
At Azzedine Alaïa’s dinner party, Apple’s new watch is on display.
Laurent Cilluffo
A look at the four main fashion weeks around the world in New York, London, Milan and Paris.
Valerio Mezzanotti for The New York Times
At Hermès, pieces in goldenrod yellow added pop to an otherwise neutral-toned collection.
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Putting a Premium on Casual
By RUTH LA FERLA
The once humble-looking statement sweats have proved their staying power.
Here are some smart investments to help pull off a head-to-toe dark look.
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Amal Alamuddin Gets Fashionably Wed in Stella McCartney
By ANGELA KOH
The barrister’s bespoke cream top and trousers evoked Bianca Jagger’s iconic marriage ensemble.
Gaby Aghion, Founder of Chloé Fashion House, Dies at 93
By DANNY HAKIM
Ms. Aghion was a designer who played a pivotal role in creating less formal ready-to-wear fashions and brought a working woman’s sensibility to the industry.
On the Runway Blog
Jean Paul Gaultier Gives a Good Party
By STUART EMMRICH
The designer’s final ready-to-wear show had Champagne, cheers and confetti. It was a night when memories came flooding back.
Behind Jean Paul Gaultier’s Goodbye
By VANESSA FRIEDMAN
As the designer abandons ready-to-wear, there may be lessons to be learned.
Jean Paul Gaultier: Words to Remember Him By
By JOHN KOBLIN and MATTHEW SCHNEIER
Fashion names tell their favorite Gaultier stories, from Hamish Bowles’s turn on the runway to Coco Rocha’s shared sunset.
Special Report: Watches
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Swiss Watchmakers Court China’s Young and Trendy Buyers
By VICTORIA GOMELSKY
The effort to endear Chinese taste makers to fine timepieces has been the defining narrative of the Swiss watch industry for the past 15 years.
Round the Clock in Paris
The French capital is famous for its architecture and its food but also for its light — shimmering on the Seine or gray Second Empire roofs, spires or cobblestones.
Intricate Watch Mechanisms, Designed with Women in Mind
By KATHLEEN BECKETT
Women's tastes and needs are changing and watchmakers increasingly are acknowledging the change.
Christian Louboutin Shares Stories on Showgirls, Shoes and Theater
By T MAGAZINE
In our latest installment of this series, T’s senior market editor, Malina Joseph Gilchrist, interviews the shoe designer at the Studio 54 theater.
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A scene from the film “Passage to Dawn,” to be shown by Maiyet during Paris Fashion Week.
At Maiyet, the trend has been turned into a short film directed and choreographed by Benjamin Millepied, the Paris Opéra Ballet’s incoming director.
On the Runway Blog
At Paris Fashion Week, Hedi Slimane’s ‘Sonic’ Exhibit Opens
By ALEXANDRA JACOBS
“Sonic,” an exhibition of black-and-white photographs taken by the Saint Laurent designer, Hedi Slimane, opened on Sept. 18 at the Fondation Pierre Bergé-Yves Saint Laurent.
Antiques
At the Met, Honoring Kimonos and a Scholar of the Same
By EVE M. KAHN
The work of the textiles historian Terry Satsuki Milhaupt anchors “Kimono: A Modern History,” an exhibition coming to the Met.
ArtsBeat
Costume Institute to Work With Wong Kar-wai in a Show Focused on China
By RANDY KENNEDY
Mr. Wong, the film director, will serve as artistic director for “Chinese Whispers: Tales of the East in Art, Film and Fashion,” opening at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in May.
Julio Piatti
Jacques Grange's decoration of the Grand Palais for the Biennale des Antiquaires was inspired by Versailles.
The Shifting Identity of Paris’s Biennale des Antiquaires
By DAVID NETTO
The decorative arts fair at the Grand Palais has become less a guidebook on how to live once you’ve made it and more a show to be considered one object at a time.
Milan Fashion Week
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Milan Fashion Week Street Style
By CRAIG AREND
Here are our highlights from show-goers’ style.
Milan Fashion Week Accessories
By ANGELICA ROGERS
Barbie-inspired bags at Moschino, ’70s style boots at Gucci and more details from the spring 2015 shows.
London Fashion Week
Craig Arend for The New York Times
London Fashion Week Street Style
By CRAIG AREND
Here are our highlights from show-goers’ style.
London Fashion Week Accessories
By ANGELICA ROGERS
Fur slippers at Simone Rocha, ear-cuffs at Julien MacDonald and more details from the spring 2015 shows.
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