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Ugly clothes for ugly times
Why fashion is so hideous right now. Plus: Thank goodness for Yohji Yamamoto and my favorite Spring 2026 collections!
 • Raquel Laneri
Does fashion matter?
How a MoMA show about textiles reignited my love of clothes. Plus: why what we wear matters even — especially! — in times of turmoil.
 • Raquel Laneri
The Real Madame X
The Met's sensational "Sargent and Paris" tells the tale of the most scandalous portrait ever made.
 • Raquel Laneri
RIP Pope Francis, the public servant who drove Vatican tailors crazy with his 'papal athleisure'
“I don’t exclude the possibility that in the evening he just puts [his cassock] to wash, and wears it again the next morning."
 • Raquel Laneri
"I have been sitting on these images almost like it's a private affair of my heart"
Two photographers reflect on Christo and Jeanne-Claude's monumental Central Park installation "The Gates," 20 years later.
 • Raquel Laneri
Marianne Faithfull's beautiful, wretched excess
RIP to the singer, poet, sage, survivor, and (of course) style icon who lived a thousand lives with uncompromising flair. Plus: the women who made the…
 • Raquel Laneri
The emptiness of Ivanka Trump's green Dior suit
Class rage, nostalgia, the cruel fantasy of haute couture, and the problem of writing about politics and fashion.
 • Raquel Laneri
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The stories behind what we wear.
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