fashion

Women Tricking Men Into Wearing Tight Clothes

Hamilton Nolan · 06/04/14 02:18PM

A good rule of thumb if you're a man and you want to wear a "dress shirt" is, you put on the shirt and look in the mirror, and if you can see your nipples and also you are suffocating, the shirt is too tight. Well, your wife thinks it looks great on you.

Conspicuous Consumption Grows Along With Capitalism's Contradictions

Hamilton Nolan · 05/01/14 11:21AM

As the twin phenomena of regulatory capture and decrepit political structures controlled by a small plutocracy enable a small class of rentiers to accumulate an ever larger share of the world's wealth, our patriarchal society spawns status-obsessed males seeking glory through gaudy displays of finery.

Condé Nast Frowns On Fashion Reporter’s Instagrammed Junket

J.K. Trotter · 04/08/14 12:35PM

Over the past weekend, a P.R. firm called The Social Co. hosted a group of fashion journalists and bloggers for a gratis getaway at the Maidstone, an East Hampton hotel where mid-priced rooms go for $845 per night. Among the attendees was David Yi, a staff reporter at Condé Nast’s Women’s Wear Daily, who meticulously Instagrammed the entire weekend with the The Social Co.’s preferred hashtag, #MaidstoneVoyage. Now Yi’s employer is scrutinizing his attendance for a potential ethics breach.

Hamilton Nolan · 03/25/14 01:11PM

"I don't push labels on my kids," says a mom whose six-year-old daughter recently acquired a $695 dress. "Jolie chooses what she wants in a store in an organic way."

Justin Charity · 03/22/14 08:47AM

L'Wren Scott's fashion label was deeply indebted and on the brink of restructuring before her suicide last week. Despite Scott's many red-carpet worn endorsements from celebrities, her company's London filings show $5.9 million in losses as of 2012, compounding industry speculation that Scott's business "just crashed."

Science: Be a Slob

Hamilton Nolan · 03/18/14 11:02AM

Scientific research has now confirmed what has long been understood by those of us with the strength of character necessary to live life as raffish, devil-may-care iconoclasts: wearing "nice" clothes that are "appropriate" is for losers.

"Gray Is the New Brown": How to Dress Your Children

Caity Weaver · 03/13/14 02:57PM

There are no cream-colored garments on display at the ENK Children's Club international kids' clothing exhibition when I visit the Javits Convention Center in Hell's Kitchen Tuesday morning, except in those booths whose entire stock is made up of rompers in varying shades of eggshell, ecru, and ivory.