A major vacancy in the fashion world has been filled. On Thursday, Lanvin, the oldest French couture house in continual existence, named Peter Copping its new artistic director, an appointment that indicates a potential return to pure designers after a period in which the buzz was focused on content creators. “Peter Copping’s arrival at Lanvin…
The Dutch fashion designer Iris van Herpen, who counts Beyoncé, Björk and Tilda Swinton among her regular clients, is known for dazzling haute couture pieces that resemble sculpture. Now she’s aiming to show that the equation also works the other way around: She’s not a fashion designer but an artist who happens to make pieces…
Choosing a good bed frame and mattress is important, but there’s something else that matters nearly as much: The way you dress your bed. Your sheets, pillows and other bedding — and the way they’re arranged — can have a big effect on how appealing your bed is and how good it feels to climb…
Peering through the windows of the storefront at the corner of Broadway and Canal Street, it might seem like just another upscale boutique. Inside, luxury handbags — Dior’s Lady D-lite, Louis Vuitton’s Loop, Loewe’s Puzzle bag, Telfar’s Shopping Bag, and several Hermès Birkins among them — are arranged on a grid of white shelves and…
Calvin Klein, a brand that recently made waves with an ad campaign featuring the actor Jeremy Allen White in nothing but his underwear, is getting a little more buttoned up. On Thursday, it announced it would restart its high-end Collection business under a new creative director, Veronica Leoni, along with a return to the runway…
The handbag designer Nancy Gonzalez built a cult following among celebrities and the South American superrich thanks to her use of brilliantly dyed precious skins. Once one of the largest purveyors of crocodile skin accessories in the world, her namesake brand sold totes and clutches in lime green alligator and lavender python skin for thousands…
This hen’s name is Nina (above, center). I was visiting a friend this past November in the Canary Islands — a place made for hiking and forgetting about fashion — and the hen befriended me. Wherever I went, she came to sit on my lap. My mother passed away in September; another reason I needed…
Unlike many designers, much of the work of the costume designer Ellen Mirojnick is contemporary. Her filmography is evidence of the impact she has had on the look and feel of some of the most iconic films of the 1980s and ’90s: Paul Verhoeven’s “Basic Instinct” (1992) and “Showgirls” (1995), Adrian Lyne’s “Fatal Attraction” (1987)…
Then, just hours before another show, when Mr. Yamamoto requested a “wearable,” Ms. Harui said she grabbed a handful of the conical forms she uses as ring displays and strung them together into an arm piece. Her boss approved. “He likes it when creative people do their own thing,” she said. There’s a similarly spur-of-the-moment…
When she was 5 years old Kia Schwaninger designed her first piece of jewelry, a refined necklace of royal-blue polymer clay beads that was for her mother. “I guess that was my first commission,” the Swiss-born designer who now lives and works in Brooklyn said as a joke. Her mother still has the necklace. Ms….
