Sneakers from the NikeCraft collection. “I don’t want to sound like a Luddite, but I’m very skeptical of big business,” the artist Tom Sachs said, talking about NikeCraft, a small collection he did with the shoemaker that he introduced with his exhibition, “Space Program: Mars,” now at the Park Avenue Armory. Mr. Sachs is no [...]

Robert Caplin for The New York TimesJanelle Monáe with Ted Gibson at the awards. Essence magazine handed out its first Best in Black Beauty Awards on May 8, honoring what it called innovators in cosmetics, skin care, nails and hair.   The event, at the Dream Downtown hotel in New York City, drew a fashionable crowd [...]

A sketch by Elsa Schiaparelli. Once Elsa Schiaparelli got going, she didn’t quit. She was enormously innovative from the start of her career, in 1927, as visitors to the new Schiaparelli-Prada exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art will readily see. She created severely chic suits as well as witty party clothes and accessories for at [...]

Tonight, Lincoln Center will once again be filled with stars and socialites dressed to the hilt as the New York City Ballet opens its spring season. But true fashion lovers should look not to the plaza but to the stage for the most exciting designs. In an usually fashion-focused gala, the Rodarte sisters have created [...]

A sketch by Elsa Schiaparelli. Once Elsa Schiaparelli got going, she didn’t quit. She was enormously innovative from the start of her career, in 1927, as visitors to the new Schiaparelli-Prada exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art will readily see. She created severely chic suits as well as witty party clothes and accessories for at [...]

After working the cocktail room at the Met gala last night, I dropped into the Temple of Dendur to see if dinner guests were comfortable in their $20,000 seats, or whatever one costs these days. I ran into Julie Gilhart, the former Barneys fashion director, who had a manicurist apply the letters AMAZON.COM to her [...]

There’s no dearth of street style content on the Web these days. But what you don’t see much of is street fashion that captures many varied parts of New York City and the people who live here. Today we’re introducing a new video series called “Intersection: Where Culture Meets Style”. Every other Tuesday, we’ll show [...]

Randy BrookePhilip Treacy, a milliner, shows fashion students how to create beauty from common objects. Philip Treacy, the milliner responsible to so many trembling heads, including some royal ones, was giving a hat-making demonstration when Suzy Menkes and I walked in. Ms. Menkes and I had just wrapped up a 90-minute dish with journalism students [...]

Vogue, via Associated PressVogue, May 2012. Beginning with their June issues, the editors of the 19 international editions of Vogue magazine have made a pact to stop using models under age 16 or those who, from the viewpoint of the editors, appear to have an eating disorder. In a somewhat unusual announcement, unusual in that [...]

The CMYK shoe by hamansutra. It was serendipitous that a headphone cable fell on top of Haman Alimardani’s shoes while he was D.J.-ing one evening. The accident lent itself to his artful design: the CMYK shoe by the New York-based fashion label, hamansutra. The shoes feature stereo mini-jacks for laces. A fresh take on the [...]