Luxury fashion & independent designers

2025

Celine Song’s Visions of Love

With her new A24 film “Materialists,” the celebrated director of “Past Lives” is drawing on her stint as a professional matchmaker to explore the twin topics of love and money.

Everyone’s Gone to the Movies

Culture May 30

How the independent movie publication Screen Slate became indispensable—while defining what makes a good website in 2025.

Leon Xu’s Distortions of Time

Culture May 5

In just a few years, the New York–based artist has carved out an enviable career painting outside the confines of memory. So what happens when he’s forced to take things a little slower?

Life on the Road with Jarred Vanderbilt

Culture May 2

Since he was young, the Los Angeles Lakers forward had a vision for how he wanted to style himself. Now he has the means to achieve it.

“Living in Your Imagination”: A Conversation About Filmmaking with Durga Chew-Bose

Culture Apr 29

“Living in Your Imagination”: A Conversation About Filmmaking with Durga Chew-Bose

Need a Grill? In Tokyo, Tetsuya Akiyama Is the Man to See

Culture Apr 25

The man behind Grillz Jewelz has made jewelry masterpieces for everyone from Pharrell to A$AP Rocky to Megan Thee Stallion.

Alice McNally Is Too Cool to Post

Culture Apr 23

Modeling for Eckhaus Latta and SKIMS, the 20-year-old is flouting the rules of modern fame to become one of the most in-demand faces in New York.

There Are No NPCs in Julio Torres’s Universe

Culture Apr 7

The writer, director, and comic is building a moving-image multiverse where even the inanimate objects are recognizably human.

The Beautiful Design Objects of MATTER and SHAPE

Culture Apr 4

A new trade show of home goods is looking to reframe the boundaries between fashion and design. Read more and shop some of the best from the show.

Amanda Lepore Still ♡s New York

Culture Mar 3

Alex Frank joins the icon in her East Side apartment to talk nightlife, fashion, and why she likes the city more than ever.

The Art of Soundtracking a Fashion Show

Culture Feb 13

From Chanel to JW Anderson to Raf Simons, Michel Gaubert has been the go-to catwalk DJ for decades. This is how he lives and works.

New York Fashion’s Favorite Grocery Store

Culture Jan 20

Sami Reiss takes us inside Happier Grocery, a small, health and wellness-coded grocery and lunch counter that has become a hotspot for the fashion industry.

2024

Scents and Sensibilities: Arabelle Sicardi Takes Dries Van Noten to the Mall

Culture Dec 9

Dries is a master of contrast and unlikely pairings. So what better place to test out the label’s new fragrances than The Grove in Los Angeles?

The Dark Lord of Fine Details

Culture Nov 22

How celebrated director Robert Eggers brought the horrifying world of “Nosferatu” to life.

Max Rocha Still Believes in the Main Course

Culture Oct 4

The chef behind Café Cecilia on his new cookbook, why breakfast matters, and the trouble with trendy sharing menus.

Exploring Queer Culture in Asia With KGS

Culture Oct 2

The evolving photo project of Nikolai Ahn and Shun Watanabe captures a cinematic slice of the Korean gay scene.

The Users Who Overtook the Machine

Culture Sep 23

A relatively brief, entirely incomplete history of our ever-evolving online fashion fandom.

That Time Bjork and Gwen Stefani Partied With a 13-Year-Old Fashion Blogger

Culture Sep 22

Tavi Gevinson and Laia Garcia-Furtado recall the international flights, magazine shoots, and art world parties that cemented their moment at the center of fashion’s digital explosion.