Jacob Elordi is Bottega Veneta’s new brand ambassador. It’s hunkiness as the ultimate form of craftsmanship

OK, obsessed with everything about art/fashion historian Anne Hollander in this fabulous piece by Rachelle Bergstein, but her red patent go-go boots?!?!? And her desk?!?!?!! Just the coolest washingtonpost.com/style/fashion/…

'She won a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1975 — another coup....She spent the prize money on psychoanalysis, according to her daughters.'

a perfect piece on the greatest fashion book of all-time: Anne Hollander's 'Sex and Suits'
washingtonpost.com/style/fashion/…

Hedi Slimane's latest: a fleet of Celine-branded helicopters deliver a jukebox to a road in the middle of the Mojave Desert to play Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique while dudes drive around in skinny suits and shades. incredible. coolness as a doomed epic. youtube.com/watch?v=xELkX8…

I am enjoying Carrie Bradshaw’s fashion evolution from ripped-from-Italian-Vogue-editorial quirkiness to what I will call Grandma McFlurry-core

Interviewed by Rachel Tashjian for ⁦The Washington Post⁩ washingtonpost.com/style/fashion/…

Bella Hadid wore one of those impossible see-through dresses ('dresses') from the Fall 2024 Saint Laurent show, at Cannes

Bonhams is auctioning off one of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy's Yohji Yamamoto dresses -- the first time one of her dresses has been available at auction. It's a sterling Yohji: bonhams.com/auction/29802/…

Rachel Tashjian Wise offers a styling philosophy this week with the same spirit as John Waters showing off this wood house. Perfection!

Christian Dior's New Look has been a fashion fascination for nearly 80 years. I spoke with Yseult about wearing it for the Cannes red carpet: wapo.st/3QSrIPH

there is a new sparkly, summery edition of Opulent Tips in your inbox -- as fresh and tangy as a ripe but refrigerated summer peach

Pretty good Shein satire from last night’s SNL youtube.com/watch?v=MKTN2O…

'in her latest star turn, she now seems to be cultivating an air of classic chic, the understated woman with some special knowledge of clothes. If designer pieces once seemed to be her refuge and pleasure, they are now her armor' on Melania's Gucci hat: wapo.st/4boWyr5

Three people next to me on the subway are
1) eating
2) sushi
3) with forks

went to a book party last night, and an attendee was literally dressed like a pirate. cropped pants, vest, handkerchief tied on head. not sure what to make of it yet, but just know: i have my eyes on this.

Simply incredible. gq.com/story/corteiz-…

'You spend most of your time as an art critic trying to express why you think art is, if not great, then somewhere in that postcode....But it’s always instructive to reflect on straightforwardly bad art.

Here, then, is a handy example' washingtonpost.com/entertainment/…

The best assignment in journalism washingtonpost.com/style/of-inter…

Another iconic paragraph that I would like to line read in a Londoner-on-holiday accent .. Rachel Tashjian Wise .. if you ever (and I hope you do) write a book of essays, I hereby, petition to narrate the audiobook.

Praise be.. a new Opulent tips in my inbox! And the Air Rifts (a long, iconic fave) is in the list of Rachel Tashjian Wise reliable shoe.. I’ve worn them since the mid aughts.. I wish Nike would resume production and stop making those god awful dunks.