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Fashion

Arts

Virgil Abloh, Menswear’s Biggest Star

A profile of the designer, who died Sunday at 41.

Doreen St. Félix New Yorker Mar 2019 Permalink

Business

The Red-Pilling of Kitson

The boutique that defined early-aughts L.A. style has taken an unexpected turn.

Bridget Read The Cut Aug 2021 30min Permalink

Arts

All That Heaven Allows

A profile of Marc Jacobs.

Thora Siemsen Ssense Mar 2021 20min Permalink

Business

Beige Ambition

Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen grew up to make New York’s most desirable clothes. But can even perfection survive the pandemic?

Matthew Schneier The Cut Mar 2021 20min Permalink

Health

Brazilian Butt Lift: Behind the World's Most Dangerous Cosmetic Surgery

The BBL is the fastest growing cosmetic surgery in the world, despite the mounting number of deaths resulting from the procedure. What is driving its astonishing rise?

Sophie Elmhirst Guardian Feb 2021 25min Permalink

Best Article Business

Sweatpants Forever

How the fashion industry collapsed.

Irina Aleksander New York Times Magazine Aug 2020 30min Permalink

Best Article Arts

James Is a Girl

The strange life of a 16-year-old model.

Jennifer Egan New York Times Magazine Feb 1996 35min Permalink

Lady Kimora

The Baby Phat designer returns.

Allison P. Davis The Cut Aug 2019 20min Permalink

Best Article

My Father’s Fashion Tips

The writer on his father’s religious devotion to personal style. Among the maxims: “the turtleneck is the most flattering thing a man can wear”; “there is nothing like a fresh burn”; and “always wear white to the face.”

Tom Junod GQ Dec 1996 30min Permalink

Arts

The Woman Who Has Styled Justin Bieber, Anita Hill, and the iPod

A profile of a dresser of celebrities.

Naomi Fry New Yorker Mar 2019 Permalink

Arts Sports

Important Things Are Happening to Jason Dill

Jason Dill is rebuilding one of the coolest skate brands on the planet, one hand-cut collage at a time.

Noah Johnson GQ Mar 2019 15min Permalink

Arts

The Eyeful Tower

A profile of André Leon Talley.

Vanessa Grigoriadis Vanity Fair Sep 2013 20min Permalink

Best Article Arts

Karl Lagerfeld, Boy Prince of Fashion

A profile of the designer, who died on February 19, 2019.

Vanessa Grigoriadis New York Feb 2006 20min Permalink

Business

The Itsy-Bitsy, Teenie-Weenie, Very Litigious Bikini

Who is the rightful inventor of the blockbuster swimsuit known as the Kiini?

Katherine Rosman New York Times Dec 2018 20min Permalink

Sports

Who Gives a Puck About Sports Merch?

How the Las Vegas Golden Knights, the expansion hockey team now in the Stanley Cup Finals, built a brand from scratch.

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Davis is an editor at Longform

Noah Davis Racked Oct 2017 20min Permalink

Tech

Style Is an Algorithm

On the future of personal taste.

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Chayka on the Longform Podcast

Kyle Chayka Racked Apr 2018 25min Permalink

Arts

What Does She Think She Looks Like?

“This isn’t an essay about clothes, exactly, nor is it about fashion, quite. It is about women and clothes and something that happens between them that we could think of as a kind of third rail of female experience.”

Rosemary Hill London Review of Books Apr 2018 25min Permalink

Arts

The Excessive Vision of Donatella Versace

How to run a fashion empire.

Molly Young GQ Mar 2018 15min Permalink

Crime

The Killer’s Trail

The many identities of Andrew Cunanan, Gianni Versace’s murderer.

Maureen Orth Vanity Fair Sep 1997 45min Permalink

Arts World

West Africa's Most Daring Designer

On Amaka Osakwe and life as a woman in Lagos.

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Okeowo on the Longform Podcast

Alexis Okeowo New Yorker Sep 2017 25min Permalink

Business

How to Sell a Billion-Dollar Myth Like a French Girl

On the business of an idea.

Eliza Brooke Racked Jul 2017 20min Permalink

Arts Media

Will I Get A Ticket?

A conversation with Lucinda Chambers shortly after she was fired from British Vogue, where she had been fashion editor for the last 25 years.

Anja Aronowsky Cronberg Vestoj Jul 2017 Permalink

World

The Secrets of the 80-Year-Old Chinese Runway Model

How did an obscure artist who survived the Cultural Revolution become a viral sensation and suddenly the surreal, sexy center of Fashion Week?

Michael Paterniti GQ Mar 2017 15min Permalink

Arts

How Clown Pants Saved My Life

An essay on clothing in uncertain times.

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Baron on the Longform Podcast

Zach Baron GQ Mar 2017 15min Permalink

Best Article Arts

The Misfit

A profile of Rei Kawakubo, an artist of few words who changed women’s fashion.

Judith Thurman New Yorker Jul 2005 25min Permalink

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