Rei Kawakubo Built Comme des Garçons by Refusing to Play by the Rules
The Tokyo designer who turned asymmetry, black and deliberate discomfort into one of fashion’s most independent houses.
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Jean Paul Gaultier: The Showman Who Made French Street Couture
From the cone bra to kabuki revues, the enfant terrible of Paris fashion turned couture into popular culture.
From Sketch to Sample, Explained: What Happens Before a Garment Reaches You
Every dress you have ever loved was rejected at least once before it was made. Between the sketch a designer pins to the wall and the garment that reaches a rail, there sits a long, unglamorous stretch of toiles, strike-
Vivienne Westwood: How Punk Became Haute Couture
The designer who dressed the Sex Pistols and ended up on the Paris calendar left fashion a conscience as well as a wardrobe.
So, Who Won Celebrity Style This Week? ELLE’s New Roundup Has Answers
ELLE's weekly style verdict is in, and apparently the real winner of the week is whoever's checkout basket fills up fastest. Editors pick the…
Balmain Takes Fifth Avenue: Why Antonin Tron’s Debut Chose the Store, Not the Street
There are debuts, and then there are declarations. Balmain has just made the second kind. To mark Antonin Tron's first fall/winter 2026 collection for the house, the French label has joined forces with Bergdorf Goodman f
Balmain After Olivier: Antonin Tron Bets on Restraint Over Rivets
Four months after Antonin Tron showed his first collection for Balmain, the house is staging a citywide takeover of Paris — roughly 1,000 bus shelters, kiosks and subway entrances carrying the Fall 2026 campaign imagery
Patrick Ta Just Revealed The Fall Beauty Looks Every A-Lister Will Be Wearing — And Honestly, We’re Obsessed
The man behind some of the most-copied red carpet faces in Hollywood just spilled the season's biggest secrets. Celebrity makeup artist Patrick Ta — founder of Patrick Ta Beauty — sat down with ABC News to break down the
Donatella Versace: The Survivor Who Rewrote Versace in Her Own Voice
Donatella Versace led Versace from 1997 to 2025 — the succession, the signature, the Capri Holdings era, and what her next chapter means for the house.
The Quiet Rebels of the Season: Simone Rocha, Zegna, and the New Art of the Fashion Week Gesture
Some seasons announce themselves with a roar; this one arrived with a raised eyebrow. Simone Rocha — the Dublin-born designer whose pearl-strewn, romantic-subversive universe has long redrawn the boundaries of femininity
The New Style Icons Are Here — And Honestly, Nobody Saw This List Coming!
Move over, old guard — a new wave of style icons just took over Hollywood, and the internet is losing its mind! Glamour just crowned a fresh set of celebrity style icons, and the comparisons are bold: Michelle Williams a
The Season Ahead: Why Fashion’s Event Calendar Has Become the Industry’s Real Runway
There is a moment, every September, when the fashion world stops debating and starts moving. The shows are scheduled, the invitations are out, and the industry's true theatre — not the runway itself, but the calendar sur
Pencil Skirts Are Back, Red Sneakers Are Everywhere, and Fall 2026 Is About to Get Loud on Every Red Carpet
Plot twist: the pencil skirt — yes, THAT pencil skirt — is staging the biggest comeback of the season, and honestly? We are seated. Fall 2026 is shaping up to be the moment celebrity style gets sharper, longer and just a
The Quiet Power of the Celebrity Exit: Why Stepping Back Became Fame’s Most Calculated Move
For decades, the ceiling of celebrity was measured in volume — more red carpets, more magazine covers, more appearances, more noise. But the most fascinating shift in modern fame isn't about who's everywhere; it's about
Miuccia Prada Proved That Ideas Can Sell Handbags
The former communist feminist who turned a family leather-goods house into fashion’s intellectual headquarters.
Ralph Lauren Sold a Story of America Before He Sold Clothes
The Bronx boy who built a wardrobe empire out of ties, tweed and the idea that style is a world you can enter.
Stella McCartney Made Cruelty-Free Fashion a Business Model
Two decades before sustainability became an industry buzzword, she built a luxury house without leather or fur.
How to Deal With People Who Refuse to Hear You
Why some conversations go nowhere — and what neuropsychology says about protecting your energy when logic stops working. A practical guide to arguing less and being heard more.
Tom Ford: The Decade He Made Gucci the Sexiest Word in Fashion
A design and business partnership that rescued a near-bankrupt house and launched a luxury label of his own.
Christian Louboutin and the Red Sole That Became a Signature
A stroke of nail polish in 1992 turned a French shoemaker into a global trademark case study.
Iris van Herpen Is Haute Couture’s Scientist of the Impossible
The Dutch designer who 3D-prints gowns treats the runway as a laboratory where craft and technology agree.
Azzedine Alaïa: The Perfectionist Who Refused the Calendar
The sculptor of body-conscious fashion kept his own schedule — and fashion waited for him anyway.
Julie Kegels Wins the 2026 LVMH Prize, Putting New Craft Back in the Spotlight
Julie Kegels winning the 2026 LVMH Prize gives fashion a useful reminder: newness still matters most when it comes with craft, clarity, and a point of view.
Suki Waterhouse and Robert Pattinson Made Venice Date-Night Dressing the Story
Suki Waterhouse and Robert Pattinson brought a softer, more intimate style story to Venice, where date-night dressing suddenly felt like the headline.
Rick Owens Turned California Grunge into Parisian Dark Glamour
The designer from Porterville built a global cult on distorted silhouettes, concrete stores and total creative control.
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