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Q&A: Stella McCartney, Designer of Great Britain’s Uniforms
Expectations soared when British fashion designer and Adidas collaborator Stella McCartney was tapped as the creative director for Team GB’s Olympic uniforms –...
U.S. Olympics Uniforms Were Made in China, and Harry Reid Is Mad
Ralph Lauren publicized its designs for the U.S. Olympic team’s opening ceremonies yesterday. They feature smart berets, neckties, and double-breasted blazers in...
Olympic Uniform Hypocrisy: Reid and Pelosi’s Clothes Are Made In China Too
Maybe it’s a lingering Independence Day hangover, but it seems that everyone in America has jumped on the patriotic bandwagon over the United States Olympics...
No. 8 Shopping: The Rich And The Rest
High-end retailers such as Ralph Lauren and Tiffany used to be pretty good indicators of where the economy was headed: when people make more luxury purchases,...
Will Fashion's Biggest Names Kiss the Runway Goodbye?
Soon you may not have to be an A-list celeb, department-store buyer or magazine editor to get a front-row seat at a fashion show. As the luxury and fashion...
Watch Out, Switzerland
Here comes Ralph. From tuxedos to wall paints, the Polo Ralph Lauren universe had everything but the perfect watch. Now it has three: Slim Classique (above), an...
The New Sartorialists
In the late 1960s, Calvin Klein and Ralph Lauren, two outsiders from the Bronx who dreamed of making it big in the fashion industry, started their companies...
Point-and-Shoot Shopping.
The humble bar code is getting hip. And with it, a luxury brand hopes to usher in a revolution in U.S. retailing. Later this month, in a campaign pegged to...
Fashion Week Review: Safe and Comforting
The first outfit to appear on the runway at Ralph Lauren's fall, 2008 show last week — a plain, gray cashmere tank dress — told the whole story of New York...
Saturday in the Park with Ralph Lauren
It's been a year of major fashion anniversaries, what with Valentino celebrating 45 years in business last summer in Rome, and the house of Dior feting their...
Sportswear: Tory's Turn
VITAL STATISTICS: NAME TORY BURCH CURRENT JOB CREATIVE DIRECTOR, TORY BURCH FIRST JOB ASSISTANT TO ZORAN INSIDE TRACK WORKED WITH REED KRAKOFF AND VERA WANG AT...
Media: Evelina Khromtchenko
It's not very often that new faces appear in the front row at fashion shows, so when a petite blond with Miu Miu eyeglasses occupied prime seats at the Milan and...
White Album
Call it a cleansing of the palette or just a knee-jerk reaction to the kaleidoscopic colors of seasons past. For spring the "it" shade is no shade at all—or a...
Ralph Lauren: The Dream Weaver
If tartan-plaid skirts and cable-knit sweaters had never existed, if the English gentry had never lived, if Virginia horse country and the Rocky Mountains had...
Creating the Mirage
On a drenched afternoon with the temperature dropping below 60 degrees, it's quite a stretch to suddenly be transported 4,000 miles away to an African...
Sci-Fi Today, Sci-Fact Tomorrow
In the future of Stephen Spielberg's "Minority Report", televisions and computers have been replaced by transparent screens on which life-size images appear to...
Pret a Sporter
Ever since Suzanne Lenglen breezed to victory in a headband and short-sleeved dress in 1919, Wimbledon has been a showcase for style. This year, it's the...
Fashion: Karl Comes to Conquer
What do you do when you've scaled the heights of fashion, designing some of the most talked-about collections on runways from Paris to Milan, and you've...
Shine On
Heavy on the Metals This page: Bottega Veneta Fenice bag, $3,850 bottegaveneta.com) Paco Rabanne by Patrick Robinson python sandal with rope detail, $738...
Style Watch
Just as fashion and home furnishings follow color trends, so too do perfumes. Or at least that's the way it seems this season with the launch of three new...
