Rachel Tashjian

5 days ago | washingtonpost.com | Rachel Tashjian

At the Ralph Lauren show, even the designer had shed his flag sweater (washingtonpost.com) At the Ralph Lauren show, even the designer had shed his flag sweater By Rachel Tashjian 2025041817292300 NEW YORK — The meaning, not to mention the cost, of American fashion is suddenly a matter of great debate. For a century, preppy and Western were the staples with which we all endlessly played.

1 week ago | nzherald.co.nz | Rachel Tashjian

By Rachel Tashjian Wednesday Apr. 16, 2025Washington PostTheir companies are merging, but the two women - Miuccia Prada and Donatella Versace - could not be more different. Last week’s big Italian fashion news is the stuff of an Edith Wharton novel: Miuccia Prada, the intellectual matriarch of an old-money fashion behemoth from the chilly, stylish north comes together with Donatella Versace, the up-from-her-bootstraps, pop-culture-obsessed babe of the country’s rough, parochial south.

1 week ago | washingtonpost.com | Rachel Tashjian

Tariffs or not, now is the time to break your bad shopping habits (washingtonpost.com) Tariffs or not, now is the time to break your bad shopping habits Sorry, fast-fashion lovers. By Rachel Tashjian 2025041520515000 Most of the tariffs that threatened to make almost everything, especially fashion, more expensive for either consumers or brands have been tabled — for about the next 90 days, anyway.

1 week ago | unionleader.com | Rachel Tashjian

Last week’s big Italian fashion news is the stuff of an Edith Wharton novel: Miuccia Prada, the intellectual matriarch of an old-money fashion behemoth from the chilly, stylish north comes together with Donatella Versace, the up-from-her-bootstraps, pop-culture-obsessed babe of the country’s rough, parochial south. The two women, and the lives that led them to this moment, could not be less alike.

1 week ago | washingtonpost.com | Rachel Tashjian

Prada buys Versace: A tale of two blondes (washingtonpost.com) Prada buys Versace: A tale of two blondes By Rachel Tashjian 2025041319120400 Last week's big Italian fashion news is the stuff of an Edith Wharton novel: Miuccia Prada, the intellectual matriarch of an old-money fashion behemoth from the chilly, stylish north comes together with Donatella Versace, the up-from-her-bootstraps, pop-culture-obsessed babe of the country's rough, parochial south.