Stories

  1. IT’S PERSONAL

    To collect is an act of totemic significance and of metamorphosis. Fashion Editor Gabrielle Marceca selects treasured pieces from the storied collections of four devoted fashion collectors-cum-archivists.
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  2. THE DYES THAT BIND

    In her styling debut, superstar Binx Walton turns the kaleidoscope on a cohort of New York friends by engaging tie-dye master Thom Arcuri of Brooklyn’s Starhawk Design Studio to customize vintage gear in a modern take on an ancient technique dating to the 5th century A.D.
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  3. Obscure Connections

    Byronesque, an online editorial-based shop for obscure vintage fashion is the ultimate resource for rare 90s runway looks. But it’s not for beginners, and the associations they draw are anything but linear.
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  4. Phoenix Rising

    The main driver of our climate crisis, humans hold the key to its resolution. Like the mythological phoenix, whose self-immolation on a funeral pyre leads to rebirth, Lexi Boling rises from the ashes in upcycled garments that, as powerful tools of social commentary, challenge our conceptions of waste and reuse.

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  5. BE(E)ATTITUDES

    In her cri de couer on the honeybee’s tragic decline, Alexandra Marvar reminds us that people have relied on these indispensable creatures for millennia, and that the work being done to save them is also about saving ourselves.
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  6. DEAR MARTIN

    Martin Margiela upended fashion’s bloated notions of glamor, its overreliance on newness, and its hierarchical traditions. Cut from the same conceptual cloth, artist Marie Valognes celebrates the humble, everyday matter so revered by fashion’s anti-establishment hero.
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  7. All Is Bright

    Founded by stylist Irene Albright in 1990, Albright Fashion Library sprawls across a vast loft near the Bowery, a densely packed trove of clothing, footwear, and accessories. Run by the incomparable Patricia Black, the archive’s creative director, Albright is a veritable kunstkammer, a repository of thirty years of high fashion.
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  8. PROTECTIVE MEASURES

    From fashion to fetish, fashion historian Ruby Redstone laces into the story of the corset and its sisterhood of underpinnings — stays, jumps and chemises — and in so doing considers what we’ve lost in our race to abandon the things that once protected us.
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  9. 9 to 5

    Tumble outta bed, and I stumble to the kitchen. Pour myself a cup of ambition. Jump in the shower and the blood starts pumpin’. Out on the street, the traffic starts jumpin’...Working 9 to 5, what a way to make a livin’. — Dolly Parton
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  10. THE (RE)GENERATION

    Open-hearted, inventive, and nothing if not resourceful, the following twelve international designers have emerged as leading lights of today’s upcycling movement. From discarded tents to old newsprint, this (Re)generation, as we call it, deploys a shockingly broad range of materials to varied ends. But these agents of change speak the same language: they upcycle not for the gratuitous sake of upcycling but rather to give voice to a pungent dialect of social commentary, responsible stewardship, and joyful expression.
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