Spain and Portugal Reboot the Iberian Fashion Market

Fashion — as it is defined — occurs when a society at large agrees to a style, aesthetic or cultural sensibility for a period of time. Fashion’s sizeable social scope and … Slap the word fashion to the title of an academic article or book and readership is likely to follow. Is political dressing is fashion trend?

For a fashion model, success is the ability to incite desire. The job requirements often include nudity and feigning seduction; provocation is a lever for sales. In the industry, boundaries between the acceptable and the unacceptable treatment of models have been etched in shades of gray. This has allowed …

And, at the more quotidian end of the style spectrum, the Museum of Modern Art curated “Items: Is Fashion Modern?”—a sprawling retrospective dedicated to wardrobe basics such as Levi’s jeans, puffer jackets and sports jerseys. No surprise that many of MoMA’s visitors were sporting their own versions of …

Having been at many fashion shows where older models are trotted out onto the catwalk, I have been struck by the discrepancy between reality and representation. No matter how great they look (and many of them are amazingly beautiful women in their 40s), their bodies and their faces generally look …

SAN FRANCISCO — Recently the founder of something called Ripple briefly became richer than Mark Zuckerberg. Another day an anonymous donor set up an $86 million Bitcoin-fortune charity called the Pineapple Fund. A Tesla was spotted with a BLOCKHN license plate. There’s a surge in people …

MILAN — Despite its reputation for being predictable, safe, conservative, sometimes boring — the Philadelphia of fashion — Milan still has the power to surprise. Especially during a time when the clothing industry in general is scrambling to adjust to the new exigencies of a fragmented marketplace, the …

He then joined Kenzo as a designer for a year, before moving to New York in 1998 to become design director of Daryl K, a fashion brand known for its downtown cool. In 2001, he joined DVF as creative director. In his new role, Jenden will report directly to Diane von Furstenberg and DVF’s board.

Since the Bharatiya Janata Party formed a national government in 2014, the Indian fashion industry has been pressed to aggressively promote traditional attire and bypass Western styles. The effort aligns with the party’s broader political program: to project multi-faith India, a country of more than 1.3 billion, …

The first question most editors get before their monthlong, four-city Fashion Week tour is, “What are you going to wear?” Sure, it’s fun to see what everyone packed in their suitcases, but the street style looks that end up in Phil Oh’s Vogue slideshows are also a good indicator of what our own friends will be …

The British fashion industry, on tenterhooks as it awaits the various outcomes of Britain’s exit from the European Union, must be rubbing its hands in anticipation. … Vogue has a piece online titled “Meghan Markle’s Stealth Shopping Style Is All the Black Friday Inspo You Need,” while InStyle crowed “The …