Vanessa Friedman
Fashion Director and Critic at The New York Times
New York Times and INYT fashion director/critic, FT alumna, mother (of 3), flying trapezer, slow-but-happy bike rider, views are all my own
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4 days ago |
nytimes.com | Vanessa Friedman
Dress codes at many private clubs forbid sneakers - but the category has gotten blurrier as shoes once relegated to sportswear become fashion forward. Our critic pins down the increasingly slippery term. Wow. I could write a whole treatise on this subject but will try to be brief. Officially a sneaker is "a sports shoe with a pliable rubber sole," at least according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary.
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4 days ago |
nytimes.com | Vanessa Friedman
His appointment as creative director of both women's and men's wear may mark not just a changing of the guard, but a shift in the paradigm. In a historic, if long-awaited, move, on Monday luxury goods behemoth LVMH named Jonathan Anderson creative director of Dior for women's wear, men's wear and couture, making him the first designer to unite all sides of the brand since Christian Dior himself.
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1 week ago |
nzherald.co.nz | Vanessa Friedman
Maria Grazia Chiuri’ is leaving the house after a final collection. Here’s how she changed Dior. The fog drifted in over the manicured lawns of the Villa Albani Torlonia in Rome just as the Dior cruise show began, lending what was already a somewhat surreal moment an extra-otherworldly air. All the female guests wore white, even Natalie Portman and Rosamund Pike; the men, black.
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1 week ago |
nytimes.com | Vanessa Friedman
Maria Grazia Chiuri' is leaving the house after a final collection. Here's how she changed Dior. The tenure of Dior's first female designer, Maria Grazia Chiuri, formally came to an end on Thursday with an announcement that she was leaving the brand after nine years. It had been rumored for months, so it surprised no one. Really it had ended two days before in Rome, with a cruise show. One that encapsulated all she had brought to the house.
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1 week ago |
nytimes.com | Vanessa Friedman
Choosing clothes is one of the simplest forms of self-expression. Our critic offers advice for guiding kids without constricting them. The issue when it comes to the parent-child fashion gap, as in any form of coded dress, is what exactly constitutes "appropriate." The word has become a default for dressing in almost any context - it's the basis of most dress codes - yet it is one that resides entirely in the mind and mores of the beholder.
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Get ready: the Met Gala is tonight. But what happens when cultural and current events are on a collision course? https://t.co/wpWXrfqKMA via @NYTimes
Interior of the Jack Shainman gallery where the Ralph Lauren show is taking place: built in 1898 for the New York Life Insurance company. Still has the vault. Feels very apropos. https://t.co/ewEjVXaWOq
This is literally the whole text of the LVMH release on JW Anderson's Dior men's gig: "CHRISTIAN DIOR COUTURE ANNOUNCES THAT JONATHAN ANDERSON IS WORKING ON THE DIOR HOMME SUMMER 2026 COLLECTION, WHICH HE WILL PRESENT IN PARIS ON JUNE 27, 2025, AT 2:30 PM." Feels like a rush job.