Anyone who believes fashion to be the frivolous, impulsive whims of designers who foist their creations on the approval-hungry masses — is right. But fashion trends are not simply rootless fancies ...

Spring is almost here, but fall starts today for the fashion world: In Milan, designers start showing their ready-to-wear collections for next fall and winter. Quickly after Milan come London, Paris, ...

The year 1984 brought some wonderful surprises, including fashions from a fondly remembered past. Among the happy returns were the menswear look, bathrobe dressing, the femme fatale, and the new neons ...

It is the nature of fashion to make us feel dowdy and obsolete season after season. We gaze at the fashion magazines, the window displays, and then at ourselves, and what we see in the media and the ...

“The Italians have a way of making everything easy,” WWD wrote in 1980, marking the rise of Italian luxury ready-to-wear and Milan’s emergence as its design center, taking over from Rome. Established ...

The average person didn’t really have access to affordable video equipment until the early to mid 80s, so that’s really when the first slice-of-life type videos shot by your average high school ...