Adam Powell

1 month ago | ssense.com | Adam Powell |Eliza Brooke

When we met up for lunch shortly after Valentine’s Day, my first question for Rachel Tashjian was where she got her outfit. We were at a French restaurant in Midtown, near her apartment. Tashjian was happy to oblige, clothes being her business as fashion critic at the Washington Post: her shirt and jacket were vintage Romeo Gigli. She bought the pieces off Etsy, from a woman who was raised Amish.

1 month ago | ssense.com | Adam Powell |Kaitlin Phillips

People actually do wear trench coats in London. It’s kind of like a New Yorker wearing a T-shirt that says “I ♡ New York.” (This looks good by the way.) Once I started going to London, I decided I too needed a trench coat, to look the part. I should say right away that I have a weird relationship to the classics. For me, the past starts in the ’70s.

Jan 20, 2025 | ssense.com | Adam Powell |Sami Reiss

What’s the connection between fashion and health? At first glance, it’s hard to say. Fashion workers spend long hours at the studio or atelier, travel for weeks at a time, spend late nights out. Models are sometimes not jacked. There are fewer good gyms in Manhattan than, say, in Los Angeles, and stateside restaurants rely more on vegetable oils than those in Milan. But if you go deeper, there is a very real Venn overlap.

Nov 25, 2024 | ssense.com | Adam Powell |Hyunji Nam

The true joy of gifting lies as much in the act of giving as in receiving. With that spirit in mind, we’ve gathered the best picks from some of the best shoppers we know: SSENSE employees. Here are the items we’d love to gift to someone special this holiday season—and the gifts that we secretly hope to receive ourselves. Enrio Evangelista, Senior RTW StylistThis magnificent robe coat is versatile and practical, and I believe it should be in everyone’s closet as it is quite a staple.

May 24, 2024 | ssense.com | Adam Powell |Nicolaia Rips

Often, on the MTA, I will encounter somebody wearing an outfit so detached from common sense, an outfit that operates by its own set of rules the likes of which are incomprehensible to most, that it could only ever exist in New York. “That’s different. That’s new,” I think, inspecting the person from across the subway car. For two weeks, that person was me.