“Ball Gowns: Dior Couture, too grand for the Emmys?”
Giovanni Giannoni

Temple Grandin’s multiple unsolicited bows looked like a tragicomic scene from “Arrested Development.” Jack Kevorkian’s solicited (by Al Pacino) bow just looked creepy, in part because he practically needed defibrillator paddles to get out of his chair.
Both appearances proved more [...]

Zara storefront
Kyle Ericksen

There are two cheaps. Good twin, bad twin, with the latter historically getting the most play. Cheap is a woman of easy virtue, or one who just dresses that way. Cheap is shiny pants, gum-snapping, over-processed hair. Cheap is the guy who never reaches for the [...]

Angelina Jolie in an Emporio Armani dress with an Asprey bracelet and Ferragamo heels at the world premiere of “Salt” in Hollywood.
Photo by Jason Merritt/Getty Images

When I tried to register for an RFID conference last year, I was told press was not allowed. The stated reason: The brands speaking were afraid of negative press about their use of the technology, which has been called “spy chips” by consumer advocate Katherine Albrecht.
Her criticisms surfaced again in a recent article in [...]

A bedbug — the gift with purchase no one wants.

Oh, for the good old days, when getting the bugs out meant working through the quirks of an imperfect computer program. Now, it means getting the bugs out. Literally. Disgusting, crafty bugs that can make themselves vilely inconspicuous, when it [...]

Filip Ospaly
Photo by Sean Walkinshaw/Brightroom.com

At least this year wasn’t a near-death experience.
The first time I competed in the New York City triathlon was 10 years ago, the inaugural race and the city’s attempt to win the bid for the 2012 Olympics. The organizers wanted to prove they could host [...]

Cover of Us Weekly
Courtesy Photo

Celebrities behaving badly. The public fascination with the genre goes way back, to a time when such questionable deportment was, well, good. Good in that it seemed to the hoi polloi romantic, adventurous or otherwise intriguing, the kind of conduct in which you might dabble yourself, if [...]

Two weeks ago I interviewed Trent Reznor’s wife Mariqueen Maandig. The two recently formed the band How to Destroy Angels with Reznor’s longtime collaborator Atticus Ross and released their debut EP on July 6, the day on which we ran the story. I had never heard of Mariqueen until I discovered HTDA, but, after some [...]

Nicolas Hayek.
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In the mid-Eighties, Swatch watches were an indicator of one’s position in the hierarchy of cool. Teens wore the peppy plastic timepieces in multiples, the faces staggered in a fanciful zigzag up the wrist.
The trend may or may not have started on the more crinkly wrist [...]

Giorgio Armani Men’s RTW Spring 2011
Photo by Davide Maestri

I think I’m getting into men’s wear. Not, mind you, significantly enough to temper resentment of all the space this paper now affords the men’s shows, even while that most important and holy of all seasons — you know that means resort — [...]