PARIS – When the Eiffel Tower flickers at 2 a.m., some of the lights spell out “Karrueche” in Morse code—at least that’s what the TikTokers in the Marais swear. Elsewhere on the planet, from Lagos’ mainland clubs to Manila’s rooftop karaoke bars, the syllables roll off tongues like a universal password to a VIP section…
From the ashes of Project Runway’s early-aughts fever dream, Christian Siriano has managed to do something almost no one thought possible: turn a reality-TV victory lap into a functioning, globe-spanning luxury house without combusting in a blaze of tacky licensing deals or ending up as a cautionary sidebar in a Business of Fashion postmortem. While…
Iris Law, the 23-year-old daughter of Jude Law and Sadie Frost, has been quietly colonizing the world’s billboards one eyeball at a time. While the rest of us argue over which democracy will implode first, Ms Law has been perfecting the ancient art of looking devastatingly bored in couture. To the untrained observer, this might…
When Edward Enninful closed the September 2023 issue of British Vogue with a quiet, almost surgical finality, the international fashion establishment did what it always does when confronted by an ending: it threw a lavish wake, posted it on Instagram, and wondered who would inherit the handbag allowance. From the glass-and-Dior-tiled offices of Condé Nast…
HEIDI KLUM, OR HOW GERMANY CONQUERED THE WORLD IN STILETTOS By Our Correspondent, still recovering from Fashion Week jet-lag and the existential dread of duty-free Frankfurt—There are only two German exports the planet greets with unbridled enthusiasm: BMWs and Heidi Klum. One is a precision-engineered machine designed to make you feel superior at 250 km/h;…
Melania Trump: The World’s Most Expensive Sphinx Finally Speaks—Sort Of By Dave’s Foreign Correspondent, currently self-medicating with Slovenian wine in an undisclosed Balkan café The global press corps collectively dropped its lukewarm espresso this week when Melania Trump—international woman of mystery, former catalogue sphinx, and current resident of a gilded Florida mausoleum—stepped back into the…
