London Fashion Comes Back to Life
The New York Times
There was a lot to see at London Fashion Week.
It began amid the raging winds of Storm Eunice, the extratropical cyclone that hit parts of Britain and Northern Europe last week, as if nature herself were offering up a metaphor for just where the battered fashion industry stands these days.
There was no celebratory cocktail at Downing Street, as there has been in the past. (The shadow of Boris Johnson’s “Partygate” still looms.) The big names — Burberry, Victoria Beckham, JW Anderson — were mostly absent, doing their own, off-schedule thing. Rumors flew, later confirmed, that Queen Elizabeth had tested positive for Covid.
Yet despite it all, and even for those like me, still watching from afar through a digital lens, this London Fashion Week was the opposite of a damp squib.
A visual tour of the show that seems to defy all the rules.
This was a year whose high points included Joan Jonas’s luminous survey, the extravaganza “PST ART,” and the 24-karat beauty of a show “Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300-1350.”
This visually inventive adaptation of a Colson Whitehead novel follows two boys at an abusive school in Jim Crow-era Florida.
What happens when violent crimes are overshadowed by appearances?
Between her experience on “Babygirl” and her mother’s death, the star has come to understand a lot about women in unfulfilled lives.
As Elon Musk has become a key player in President-elect Donald J. Trump’s world, Tesla owners are marking their cars to signify where they stand — for or against.
Whether on Prince William, JD Vance or Jacob Elordi, facial hair gets people talking.
Art Kane’s “Harlem 1958” gathered giants of the music. Sonny Rollins, 94, looks back at the historic picture.
A bipartisan crowd honored Francis Ford Coppola, the Grateful Dead, Bonnie Raitt, Arturo Sandoval and the Apollo Theater. Some wondered if Donald J. Trump would attend next year.
Back out on the road, and after working through his extreme grief, the longtime rocker is connecting with more fans than ever.
Broadway roared back, but the kitties were downtown and the prayer service was in Brooklyn.