From sewing labels into garments to using live models, Charles Frederick Worth was a pioneer that shaped the global fashion ...

Charles Frederick Worth is the subject of a retrospective at the Petit Palais museum, the first of its kind in France.

Worth: Inventing Haute Couture’ at Petit Palais traces the history of one of fashion’s most influential houses.

René Girard is best known for his theory of ‘mimetic desire’. Now Peter Thiel and the vice-president are among his fans ...

Heritage meets gumption at the Costume Institute’s big spring exhibition, where pathbreaking pieces join anonymous garments ...

Scott Fitzgerald finished a draft of his third novel, “The Great Gatsby,” in a rental home in Saint-Raphaël. By the time Gabrielle Chanel arrived in 1928 — the Parisian couturier, then 45 and known as ...

O n May 5, The Metropolitan Museum of Art hosts its annual Met Gala—an enormous world-renowned fundraiser that gathers ...

The Met’s exhibition charts the evolution of the Black dandy from the 18th century to today. Here’s what to look for on the ...

Fashion is one way to understand ... of others who were enslaved. A century later, Black men’s attire carried another powerful message. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Black men ...

Dijanna Mulhearn receives funding from Australian Government Research Training Stipend. Toby Slade does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization ...