Marc Bain

Dries Van Noten is one of fashion’s most respected and successful designers. Widely admired by editors, store buyers, and customers alike—and the subject of a forthcoming documentary—he has been in business for 30 years, and has remained fiercely independent despite multiple acquisition offers. In Paris on Wednesday (March 1), Van Noten put on his 100th show, a milestone that few in the industry achieve.

Among those keeping an eye out for the next big thing in menswear, Craig Green is already a star. Since launching his label in 2012, the 30-year-old has built a following with his unusual designs, which often start with unconventional fabrics and uniforms as their template before arriving at an outcome that can look as much like armor as clothing. He has won a handful of prestigious awards, including menswear designer of the year at the British Fashion Awards this past December, and high-end shops around the world, such as Dover Street Market in Tokyo and Barneys in New York, have put their money behind his clothes.

Warren Buffett, the billionaire investor at the head of Berkshire Hathaway, has about 20 suits by his count. All were custom-made for him, and all by one Chinese company, Dalian Dayang Trands, which has been outfitting him for a decade thanks to a bold introduction made by its founder, Li Guilian—or Madam Li, as she’s known.

Along with Moonlight, one of the unexpected winners at the Oscars last night (Feb. 27) was Nike, after a pair of the company’s sneakers got a star turn in one of the award ceremony’s big set pieces.

Underwear and provocative ads selling it are two of the pillars that hold up the Calvin Klein brand. In recent years, the semi-nude celebrities filling both have usually been of the Instagram-famous variety—people such as model and reality-TV star Kendall Jenner and singer Justin Bieber, whose massive followings on social media are arguably a main draw for a brand.

“My question is about feminism and this idea that it’s stupid to be seductive,” Miuccia Prada said backstage after her show in Milan on Feb. 23. “Is it right or wrong for a woman to be seductive? Is seduction something that was invented by us or by society? Is it horrible?”

There are many terms one might use to describe sustainable fashion; “glamorous” is probably not the first that comes to mind. Recycled cotton and plastic waste, pulled from the ocean and converted to yarn, don’t normally conjure images of beautiful clothes.

Companies in the US are grappling with how to handle Ivanka Trump’s fashion brand, which has become heavily politicized and faces ongoing boycotts over the policies of Trump’s father, US president Donald Trump. But among Chinese firms, a race is on to cash in on the US first daughter’s rising profile.

To hear photographer Shoichi Aoki describe it, what killed Tokyo’s famous Harajuku style was basically what happens when a glut of factories set up shop at the head of a river that feeds vital waterways.

The January premiere of the newest season of The Bachelor—the twenty-first for the ABC ratings hit—got off to a more awkward start than usual.

Perhaps more than any one silhouette or style or color, what stood out most on the runways at New York Fashion Week, which wrapped Feb. 16, was advocacy.

Walk around the cities of the northeastern US on a frosty day and you’ll see a common sight: People cocooned in big, down Canada Goose parkas, often with the company’s distinctive coyote-fur trimmed hoods.

StockX is an unusual company. It bills itself as a stock market for sneakers, and works by allowing people to buy and sell highly sought shoes, such as Jordans or Kanye West’s Yeezy Boosts, in new condition through an anonymous bidding system that helps to ensure products sell at the going rate. That rate fluctuates depending on what people are willing to pay, like a stock market. It even has a ticker that runs across the bottom of the site showing current prices.

There is seemingly nothing that can’t be printed on a shirt and monetized nowadays.

Though bitter rivals on many counts, Nike and Adidas share at least one thing in common. In two powerful new ads, the athletic wear and sneaker companies are making it known that they value a diverse, inclusive vision of society that stands in contrast to the isolationist ideologies that have lately risen to the surface in US and European politics.

Delivered by a newly arrived immigrant to the United States, and praising the country’s inclusive history, the runway show presented by Calvin Klein yesterday (Feb. 10) will probably go down as the most all-American collection at New York’s first fashion week under US president Donald Trump.

A rift has emerged at Under Armour between the company’s CEO and some of the most famous athletes it endorses, forcing the company to clarify exactly what it does and doesn’t support about controversial US president Donald Trump.

A defamation suit filed by Melania Trump in New York on Feb. 6 is raising yet more questions about whether the Trump family can keep its business apart from the office of the US presidency.

The weather, it turns out, has a direct impact on your playlist. But it’s not always what you’d expect.

The blurry boundaries between the Trump family’s business ties and the presidency of the United States have not become much more clear since Donald Trump took office.

To mark the start of black history month in the US, Claude Hector, who sells men’s suits in New York and has an interest in fashion history, began tweeting an ongoing thread about the often overlooked achievements of black fashion designers. His first post, on Feb. 1, was about Ann Lowe, a name many Americans won’t recognize, despite her historical significance. Lowe designed the wedding dress of Jacqueline Bouvier, who of course became Jacqueline Kennedy once she married.

Once again, many American women are unhappy with US president Donald Trump.

Ivanka Trump’s brand is losing a major sales channel. High-end department store Nordstrom has confirmed it will stop selling the label, which includes shoes, clothing, and jewelry.

The US Republican party has a major tax overhaul in the works that seeks to totally restructure the way the government taxes corporations. Rather than tax profits, it would effectively tax domestic consumption instead, under a concept called “border adjustment.”