Due to vague guidelines, security guards at the Capitol spend a lot of time making judgment calls on clothing.
Baz Luhrmann's 3D Great Gatsby is now less than a month away, and Gatsby fever is building. But will any of this catch on? The Brooks Brothers and Tiffany collections are pretty high brow, and the soundtrack has its flaws. Let's (over)analyze.
The movie's costume designer used "items from mall stores like Hot Topic, Victoria's Secret, and Forever 21 to keep a sense of realism at play" for the film itself. But new items from Opening Ceremony, the New York-based fashion tastemaker with a penchant for high mark-ups, range in prices from $20 to $90. There are bracelets.
The First Lady covering Vogue for the second time is one of those events that so instantly and obviously fascinates inquiring eyes of both the political and fashion worlds that it begs for comparison.
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The brain child of Anna Wintour that sought to take Fashion Week to the people with an evening of late hours, swag, celebrities, the occasional drink, and apparently a desire to shop more is taking a break from America.
Yes, you read that headline right. Strapped for cash and obviously desperate, the United States Postal Service is launching a new line of "'smart apparel' — also known as wearable electronics."
Yesterday the New York Post interviewed some true fashion luminaries about the tizzy over fashion designer John Galliano's maybe Hasid-mocking outfit.
Men are wearing meggings — primarily, it seems, so they can write articles about men wearing meggings. Is this an all-new low in stunt-journalism, or an unprecented high in male fashion? Are meggings even a thing? We investigate.
Fashion people are getting diarrhea from eating too much kale, the leafy green vegetable that is allegedly trendy because it has lots of vitamins but actually trendy because it allows people to chew things without ingesting many calories.
If the inauguration festivities are any indication — the First Lady wore a patterned coat and dress today, and will party with Lady Gaga tonight — the media still loves to talk about what Michelle Obama wears, and we the people love to soak it up.
Michelle Obama's new bangs will not make an entire city fashionable, but there remains hope, amidst the inaugural-ball scramble, that other people can. Hope!
How are your clothes for meditation? Do you look hot in them? If not, uh oh. You're in trouble. One must dress for success, not just in the office, but in the gym, and in the yoga studio, and wherever you choose to meditate, for that matter.
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Guy Trebay writes of a horrifying new trend in the New York Times Thursday Styles: Woman are wearing slippers. Slippers out on the streets, in plain sight, in full view of members of the same and opposite sex!
The nearly 80-year-old "petite poly-hyphenate" has stayed busy, doing talk shows and benefits and fund-raisers, awarding her Peace Price to the members of Pussy Riot, and more. She is also designing men's wear for Opening Ceremony, which... well, see for yourself.
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Today, Serena Dai drew our attention to Glenn Beck's new line of jeans, which only come in classic or straight fits. One commenter says that without a skinny version, hipsters won't wear them. Not even ironically.
Discovered: Amateur astronomers find fascinating new planet; mapping Antarctica before it melts away; bigger brains correlate with greater cancer risk; shocking pants prevent bedsores.
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A summary of the best reads found behind the paywall of The New York Times.
A summary of the best reads found behind the paywall of The New York Times.
Just in time for Fashion Week, The Cut has caught up with Hearst's most famous intern: Diana Wang, whose legal fight over an internship has ballooned into a class-action lawsuit.
Tonight we see the confluence of three major, celebrity-filled, potentially world-changing events: the final night of the Democratic National Convention, the MTV Video Music Awards, and Fashion's Night Out.
You might say, haven't there always been men's departments? Do not underestimate the power of the new gender-based selling. As Eric Wilson writes in the New York Times, "it would seem that the fight for gender equality has finally come to the place where one might least expect it."
Hiring Sally Singer away from Vogue was a big coup for The New York Times' T Magazine in 2010, so it must be disappointing to have hear leaving so suddenly, as was announced on Tuesday.
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A summary of the best reads found behind the paywall of The New York Times.
A summary of the best reads found behind the paywall of The New York Times.
Some Iranians are facing the wrath of the country's "morality police" for dressing in ways they deem aren't Islamic enough, usually because they're pairing their traditional hijabs with stylish jeans or a fancy jacket.
There are temptations at home that do not exist in traditional work spaces. We asked some hyper-productive friends of The Atlantic Wire who work from home to explain their strategies, and what it is they do all day.
Do we actually need to waste additional valuable Internet space in praise of Kate Upton for looking like she doesn't have an eating disorder?
It's been written a million times that there's a military-civilian divide in America.
In Monday's Washington Post, Monica Hesse revisits an annual conundrum: how to dress for the D.C. summer in an air conditioned office that often feels like winter. It's a complaint as regular as the changing of seasons. But is it valid? We discuss.
Is it big enough? Will it get bigger when I get older? Can I take pills to make it bigger? How about testosterone, will that help? The sad part is these are questions grown men asking about their beards (or lack thereof).
Last night was New York's most fabulous social event, the annual Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute Benefit. It's a chance for numerous celebrities to don daring, avant garde looks and show off to their friends. Let's take a look at some of the red carpet highlights!
The New York Times' Eric Wilson asks a silly question today: "Are men really ready to shop for underwear the way women do?" Silly, we say, because if men weren't shopping like women, then what would be the reason The Times and Wilson have pumped out trend story after story for the past few years about men's underwear trends?
Today's made-for-outrage New York Times trend story: Little girls are wearing fancy, expensive clothes made by fashion designers who make fancy, expensive clothes for little girls now. Little girls!
Tuesday's New York Times offers up what seems a rather tone-deaf story on "gun fashion trends," like chinos made by Woolrich, the 182-year-old clothing company that's made "gunwear"—if not, perhaps, fashionable gunwear like today's gunwear—for more than a century.
After a day of staring at Twitter, we're sharing our favorite tweets that made no sense
In our individuality obsessed culture, the only way to make one's iPhone hipper than the rest is to spend lots of money customizing the device.
The Academy Awards are all about celebrating artistry and all that blah blah blah. What they're really about is fabulous fashion, so here are our choices for the standout looks of this year's ceremony.
Today's Wall Street Journal calls skinny jeans into question, pointing out some scary health issues related to the tight pants trend. But are they really all that bad? We discuss.
Zelda Kaplan, the 95-year-old dubbed "New York's oldest and most beloved night owl," seen by many as a positive model for aging, died yesterday after collapsing at Joanna Mastroianni's show at Lincoln Center at New York Fashion Week.
Say what you will about Fashion Week, but it's good for New York City's economy.
As keeper of the Fashion Calendar since 1945, Upper East Sider Ruth Finley has wrangled the runway shows, events, and parties of New York Fashion Week into a state of relative harmony for the past 67 years.
President Obama's reelection campaign has enlisted fancy designers to elevate its campaign t-shirts out of the standard blue men's boxy XL zone, a move that Republicans say is an illegal in-kind campaign contribution since the designers' merchandise is usually way outside the budget of a typical campaign volunteer.
Mitt Romney might seem a little old-fashioned, a little uptight, but the Romney family photo archive proves otherwise. Once upon a time, the Romneys were stylish...and maybe even cool.
It's the place to be for "aspiring members" of the fashion set
Jay Carney wears cool glasses: now fight about it
Fashionistas use their best weapon against the "God Hates Fags" crowd: sneers
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