The Big Top
September 25, 2014
With strong shoulders and belted waists, the season’s patterned and printed coats reinvent the silhouette and become the statement for today’s powerful woman.
Coach
September 16, 2014
The Brit behind the new Coach reclaims the heritage of an American classic.
LV Me
August 19, 2014
For his first collection for Louis Vuitton, designer Nicolas Ghesquière proposes a luxurious retro-futurism. Mixing iconic house vocabulary with the simplicity of ’70s cool girls, the clothing and accessories build a desirable, modern wardrobe.
Beachin’
August 18, 2014
A fresh take on tailoring mixes Parisian elegance with London cool, all seen through the clean lines of a street-sharp New York eye that leaves gender-specific preconceptions by the wayside. Here, seven new faces take seven new looks off the sidewalk.
Kodi SMIT-McPHEE
July 1, 2014
At age 18, Kodi Smit-McPhee has amassed a list of credits that any actor would sell his soul for.
Loan Chabanol
May 27, 2014
Fittingly sporting Chanel’s down-home collection, the French actress goes west and gets her break with a few head-turning roles in American films this year.
Simone Rocha
May 20, 2014
The Irish lass who took London is going global—one impeccably constructed dress at a time.
Being Cheeky
April 14, 2014
The new extreme mini cuts sky high for an attention-stealing look wherever you go.
Bohemian Escape
April 8, 2014
When a free spirit puts on a performance, it’s as much for herself as for her audience. Today’s showgirl dazzles in a combination of shimmering metallics, fringing, elaborate ornamentation, corsetry, and netting mixed with elements of the street. A fearless and fabulous dress-up.
Debbie Harry
March 14, 2014
It has been exactly four decades since Blondie began pushing rock-‘n’-roll into a new dimension. In the years since, the band has become an emblem of New York City, and its platinum-haired singer a legend all her own.
Clash
March 8, 2014
Geometric prints, 3-D textures, pleats, fishnet, and fabric cutouts layer up with a warrior-like elegance.
St. Vincent
February 21, 2014
Fresh off her collaboration with David Byrne, the singer-songwriter has a new album to get people on their feet.
Big Pimpin’
February 17, 2014
Reinvigorated in crisp white and pale colors, men’s sportswear staples get minimal in style but pumped up in proportions, with an over-the-top urban spin and new twist on excess.
Mackenzie Davis
January 28, 2014
Walking to lunch in New York’s East Village, Mackenzie Davis, a human skyscraper with cheekbones, is talking about sex—and smiling.
The New Abstract
December 12, 2013
In the mid-20th century, painterly abstraction went—in mere decades—from a source of utopian transcendence or a liberation of the unconscious to an inert black square prefiguring the death of the entire genre. Ever since, abstraction has been resituated and made to dance in limbo by proceeding generations who searched for unexplored ways in and around the painterly form. Today, a number of new artists have taken on the mantle of abstraction, utilizing the constraints of non-figuration and the quixotic materials of paint and canvas to experiment with its breaks, fissures, and unexpected entry points. The five New York-based painters in this portfolio come from different backgrounds, lift off from diverse theoretical grounds, and are at distinct stages in their careers. However, each, in his or her own way, demonstrates that formal restrictions can sometimes make for the most the revelatory art productions
Jeff Elrod
December 12, 2013
The 47-year-old artist, Jeff Elrod, who splits his time between Marfa, Texas, and New York, refined his approach to abstraction in the late ’90s, taking the Warholian or Christopher Woolian tactic of rerouting the painter’s touch with more industrial tools one step further.
Ryan Sullivan
December 12, 2013
There is so much seismic activity at work in 30-year-old artist Ryan Sullivan’s multilayered paintings that, on first glance, one could mistake the canvases for zoomed-in satellite shots of lunar terrains or geographical fault lines recorded by heat sensors.
Lucien Smith
December 12, 2013
At the top of the stairway leading to Lucien Smith’s fifth-floor Tribeca studio, the roof door hangs open, revealing a rectangle of sky.
Gregory Edwards
December 12, 2013
In a series of oil paintings by Gregory Edwards from 2012, question marks squirm like amoebas across the canvas or line up in a militaristic grid over a florescent checkerboard or over a horizon backdrop of blue and sandy brown.
Sadie Laska
December 12, 2013
Incorporating detritus from the everyday world into fine art was a modernist tactic, among other strategies, for assaulting the sacred aura of the frame. The 38-year-old West Virginia-born painter Sadie Laska’s deliriously frenetic abstract paintings take what appears to be the opposite approach.