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City after city, Fashion Month continues its annual parade from New York to London to Milan. Now, as the season wraps up, it's time for Paris. The city of love (or light, depending on who you ask) ...

Every new employee of the American fashion designer Thom Browne receives a “starter kit” of his brand’s clothing worth some ten thousand dollars retail, including, among other items, two gray suits, ...

In the Before Times, the last thing a man did before heading off to work was stop in front of a mirror and straighten his tie. Think about the term “white-collar job”: It’s still with us, even as ...

Tyler Perry’s latest film, Mea Culpa, was a thrilling project that left fans eagerly discussing what they had viewed on social media for days. Immediately following its release, across Instagram and ...

“They are walking right out of the store—they are going out as fast as we can get them in” says Geraldine Stutz, president of Manhattan’s Henri Bendel. She is talking about women’s pants suits, the ...

Daniel Reynolds is the editor-in-chief of Out and an award-winning journalist who focuses on the intersection between entertainment and politics. This Jersey boy has now lived in Los Angeles for more ...

Biannual fashion extravaganza London Fashion Week has just wound up after a packed schedule of menswear and womenswear shows, spread across all corners of the capital. Highlights included established ...

The fuel of the 1980s? Power. It came in many forms: a healthy stock portfolio, a fit physique, a shattered glass ceiling. The decade stomped ahead to the beat of the NYSE bell, the music of MTV, and ...

The prevailing styles of 1940s fashion? Well, that depends. Stylistically, the decade began with one look (fueled by wartime make-do-and-mend attitudes) and ended with an entirely other New Look (a ...