Fashion trends flow like the tides. Throughout its 175-year history, The New York Times has captured these trends rushing in, drifting out and surging back again. Often, fashion documentation has ...
Eleanor Medhurst, a lesbian fashion historian based in Birmingham, UK, offers a wonderfully expansive exploration of lesbian fashion history in her first book, Unsuitable: A History of Lesbian Fashion ...
Black Queer fashion history is yesterday, today, and tomorrow. In celebration of Pride Month, every week in June, we will spotlight the contributions of prolific Black queer fashion designers. Willi ...
How to talk about fashion history without Paul Poiret’s “Orientalist” approach; Yves Saint Laurent’s landmark collections inspired by China and Africa, or John Galliano, who threw countless ...
Eva Perón's glamorous style — including the voluminous ball gown she wore in 1951 — made her a controversial yet beloved figure in Argentine history. Eva Perón, better known as Evita, became the first ...
The ’70s were a gloriously glamorous decade. With the advent of disco and New York’s famed Studio 54, the biggest stars of that time turned out in their most dazzling ‘fits (read: completely ...
The 1960s birthed a lot of iconic fashion looks. The decade was undoubtedly a revolutionary moment in fashion history, known for major shifts in music, politics, culture, and crucially for us style ...
As avid followers of the Met Gala may know, the purpose of the soiree is to raise money for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute. Since its inception, the Met Gala has, in essence, been ...