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Fashion
January 13, 2016
Rebecca Leber
Feminists: It’s okay to obsess over Michelle Obama’s marigold dress.
December 18, 2015
Laura Marsh
Models in France now will have to supply a doctor’s certificate proving they are a healthy weight.
December 14, 2015
Christopher Oldstone-Moore
Survival of the Scruffiest
Charles Darwin and the evolutionary mystery of the beard.
December 12, 2015
Michelle Legro
“Fashion Santa” is the latest in a line of increasingly hot Santas.
October 28, 2015
Gwyneth Kelly
The Fine Art of Fashion
A new book collects images of women in poses from famous paintings
September 23, 2015
Siri Hustvedt
Notes Toward a Theory of Hair
Novelist Siri Hustvedt reflects on the cultural meaning of coiffure
August 18, 2015
Whitney Mallett
Inside the Massive Rag Yards That Wring Money Out of Your Discarded Clothes
May 23, 2015
Anne Hollander
How to Write About Fashion
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April 22, 2015
Gemma Sieff
Fashion Failure
Making sense of the spectacular collapse of two of fashion’s best-known bad boys
April 3, 2015
Phoebe Maltz Bovy
The New York Times' "Men's Style" Section Is a Win for Women in Journalism
March 24, 2015
Elspeth Reeve
Mom Jeans Are Back. It's About Time.
March 5, 2015
Jennifer Sky
Models of the World, Unite!
The fashion industry pays them in dresses. It's time they unionize.
February 23, 2015
Jennifer Sky
When Will the Fashion Industry Treat Underage Models Like the Children They Are?
October 27, 2014
Hillary Kelly
Let's Bring Back Mourning Clothes
October 21, 2014
Chloe Schama
My Weekend With Oscar de la Renta
October 10, 2014
A.A. Gill
The Suit Is the Greatest British Invention
September 13, 2014
Jennifer Homans
Charles James Was an Artist—But Don't Hang His Works in a Museum
August 4, 2014
Rebecca Traister
Nine West Thinks Women Need "Husband-Hunting" Shoes
Five ideas for the shoe company's next ad campaign
July 28, 2014
Amy Weiss-Meyer
In France, It Really Matters What Politicians Wear. Even Men.
François Hollande is just the country's latest fashion victim
June 20, 2014
Eleanor Margolis
Dov Charney, Terry Richardson, and the Misogynistic Truth About Hipster Cool
A bizarre double standard has emerged in the fashion world, where misogyny is OK, as long as it pastiches a bygone era of kitsch female subjugation

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