1983 was a major year for Willi Smith. The New York City-based designer won the Coty American Fashion Critics Award for Womenswear— only the second Black designer to do so.…

Rubina Khan hosts Fern Mallis on the latest edition of her Instagram Live series: RUBINA’S RADAR When Fern speaks with her friend Rubina, the journalist and photographer in Mumbai, these two…

Over the past decade, no topic has been off-limits as Fern Mallis conducted in-depth interviews with fashion’s most legendary at the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan. Video archives from “Fashion…

The life and times of Elie Tahari are coming to the big screen. The fashion designer will be the subject of a feature documentary to be released on Amazon Prime…

Read more about the article ANNOUNCING “FASHION ICONS: THE ARCHIVE” AND “FASHION LIVES II: FASHION ICONS WITH FERN MALLIS”
Michael Priest

Press Release NEW YORK, February 2021 -- Fern Mallis, the Fashion industry doyenne most recognized as the founder of New York Fashion Week, is embarking on the next chapter of…

Read more about the article WWD: Will Live Shows Go On in New York in September? Unlikely
Gigi Hadid and Tommy Hilfiger on the catwalk

Although IMG seems to be making plans to have physical shows during New York Fashion Week in September, as reported in WWD on Wednesday, most of the major designers contacted…

Billy Porter’s first introduction to fashion was in a Black Pentecostal church in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where he was born and raised. In 1991, he came to New York, and Broadway…

Read more about the article Take a Sneak Peek at the Newest International Best Dressed List
Zoe Kravitz in Saint Laurent by Anthony Vaccarello.

DRUM ROLL PLEASE: The International Best Dressed List will be revealed in its entirety before the crack of dawn Saturday morning via Graydon Carter’s digital weekly Air Mail. The roster…