Posts by Morgan Hills
As Movies Adapt to the Times, the Oscars Can Only Look On
In Hollywood, and at the Oscars, “hope” is a very big word. Chloé Zhao used it in her recorded introduction to a clip from her film “Hamnet,” and Conan O’Brien, hosting the festivities, offered it as a reason to hold that big party in troubled times. He exhorted the crowd to enjoy the night “in…
Read MoreStructure, Strategy and Status: Contemporary Brands Play by Luxury Codes at Paris Fashion Week
Across Paris during fashion week, contemporary brands continued to raise the stakes — and borrowing tactics long associated with luxury houses — by associating with arts and culture (as well as taking a page from the clienteling playbook) as they seek to elevate brand positioning. Labels staged increasingly elaborate presentations and events, such as Sandro’s…
Read MoreNoma’s Food Is Art. Its Head Chef and Co-Owner Is a Problem
People love to scoff at this sort of high-concept culinary stuff. What’s served at Noma is “food” in the way that couture is clothing–a basic human need spun so far beyond the minimums of physical exigency that it’s almost nonsensical to hold it to similar standards. Did lunch at Noma taste good? Is a shredded,…
Read MoreRenate Reinsve Mixes Hard Tailoring and Painted Satin in Khaite at WIF’s Oscars Nominees Celebration
Renate Reinsve broke from her Louis Vuitton awards season run on Friday night, arriving at the Women in Film Oscars Nominees Celebration in Los Angeles in one of Khaite’s fall 2026 looks: a strict black velvet jacket up top, then a pale satin skirt with a print popping out between the pleats. Renate Reinsve wearing…
Read MoreCharlotte Tilbury, Hermés, Dior and More Luxury Beauty Brands Get Rare 15% Discount at Nordstrom
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, WWD may receive an affiliate commission. Nordstrom‘s Spring Beauty Savings Event is on now, with rare discounts on top skincare and makeup brands like Charlotte Tilbury, La Mer, Dior, Hermes, Tom Ford and more. These are the same brands and…
Read MoreFilms Are Fantasies. Here Are Their Realities.
Later, I learned that the man was Atsushi Nishijima, known as Jima—an on-set stills photographer who in the past decade and a half has worked with some of our era’s most important filmmakers, among them Safdie, Yorgos Lanthimos, Ava DuVernay, and Noah Baumbach. Born in Japan in 1977, in the town of Shizuoka, about an…
Read MoreWhat Went Wrong When Susan Sontag Met Thomas Mann?
Gil Rodin sent his nephew to the Reinhardt Workshop, a performing-arts school run by the towering Austrian émigré director Max Reinhardt, who had settled in L.A.. Reinhardt had made a bewitching adaptation of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” which featured the film début of Olivia de Havilland and Mickey Rooney’s breakthrough role as Puck, but his…
Read MoreParis Fashion Week’s Fall 2026 Jewelry Highlights
PARIS — Forget clutching your pearls. As the fall 2026 shows were underway in the City of Light, there was so much more up for grabs as jewelry brands went bold in their designs, unapologetic on their colors and playful in their approach. Everywhere, gems the size of hard candy were on display and despite…
Read MoreThe Feminist Visionary Who Lost the Plot
Elizabeth Cady Stanton believed that she was a person of “superior intelligence and courage.” This fuelled her radical politics—and her eventual descent into bigotry. Source link
Read MoreTorishéju Fall 2026: Riders in the Storm
What do you think Torishéju Dumi’s collection is about, with its denim trousers with tone-on-tone harlequin lozenges climbing up the legs, the many-sleeved cardigan atop a skirt that seems like one long band of buttons, the ballgowns that seem to grow out of tailored waistbands? If the London-based designer had her way, she’d leave you…
Read MoreTwo Playwrights Tackle Father Figures
Still, the most remarkable performance at the Cherry Lane is by Peter Friedman, who plays the kind of father you rarely see in art: a good one. It’s a hard sort of acting to describe, a spectacle of humility and self-awareness, unshowy and confident. A businessman with a genial, chatty energy, Mae’s father, facing mortality,…
Read MoreEXCLUSIVE: Bella Hadid Is Prada’s First Global Beauty Ambassador
PARIS — Prada has signed its first global beauty ambassador — Bella Hadid — who will help introduce the first blush, Prada Touch, into the brand’s makeup collection this month. The cheek and lip product opens a new chapter for Prada makeup. With a cream-to-powder texture, it has stackable, pocket-sized packaging shaped in Prada’s iconic…
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