Posts by Morgan Hills
Alexander Skarsgård Brings the Flip-flop Debate to Sundance in Valentino Rockstuds
Alexander Skarsgård revived the luxury flip-flop debate at Sundance on Friday, wearing a pair of Valentino Rockstud thong sandals to the premiere of “The Moment” during the 2026 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. The black leather sandals featured a flat sole and narrow thong straps traced with Valentino’s signature pyramid Rockstuds in gold-tone…
Read MoreLanvin Men’s Fall 2026: Plush Life
As it celebrates 100 years in menswear, Lanvin uncoupled its fall collections, though artistic director Peter Copping maintained thematic links to his women’s pre-fall collection, whose springboard was a trip to Venice that founder Jeanne Lanvin took with her niece Marianne in the ’20s. Hence there was some Fortuny pleating on roomy tuxedo pants; mottled…
Read MoreErnest W. Baker Fall 2026: Show Time
Ernest W. Baker staged its debut runway show with a collection full of elevated tailoring. “We’ve been building momentum as a brand and felt like the energy was going there,” said Reid Baker, half of the design duo behind the label, launched in 2018. He and Inês Amorim were keen to try something new, “but…
Read MoreThe Cruelty and Theatre of the Trump Press Conference
Playacting for journalists standing in an unruly huddle just off camera, Trump asked questions of the oilmen, wondering how soon they could suck the ground under Venezuela dry. “And you’re very much set up for the heavy oil, right?” he asked at one point. There was an implicit cruelty behind the exercise. He wanted the…
Read MoreWilliam Eggleston’s Lonely South
Eggleston, however, used color in a different way: he employed the bright shock effect of advertising—Drink Coca-Cola! Drive this Buick!—but separated it from capitalism. There’s so much junk in Eggleston’s pictures. Junked cars, used cars, dusty parked cars, cars going nowhere or maybe about to go somewhere. In one of his most famous images, “Memphis”—it’s…
Read MoreLouise Bourgeois’s Art Can Still Enthrall
In recent years, Noche Flamenca, New York’s finest flamenco troupe, has been taking inspiration from the art of Francisco Goya. The company’s aesthetic of bare-bones authenticity and banked-fire passion matches the painter’s dark candor. Situations and moods from Goya prompt and color the troupe’s usual loose collections of ensemble numbers and solos for its excellent…
Read More“The Beauty” Is a Hot Mess
In the new Ryan Murphy horror thriller “The Beauty,” a virus turns its hosts into perfect physical specimens overnight. Men wake up with rippling biceps, Hawaiian-roll abs, and the kind of jawline even other men notice. Women emerge youthful and thin (of course), with Disney-princess eyes and movie-star lips. A biotech C.E.O. named Byron Forst…
Read MoreEXCLUSIVE: Givenchy and Sarah Burton Hope to Snatch a Bestseller With New Bag Design
SNATCH IT UP: Givenchy is hoping customers will be raring to get hold of its new bag design, dubbed The Snatch, when it launches Thursday. The design is the first major handbag introduction since Sarah Burton joined the LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton-owned label as creative director in September 2024, and nods to the sensual…
Read MoreReading for the New Year: Part Four
This is Obomsawin’s take on Kaspar Hauser, a nineteenth-century German man who claimed to have grown up in a dark cellar, without any human contact. We meet him as a Gumby-like figure, asleep on a dirt floor, with only a jug of water and a toy horse. He has no idea how he got there.…
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Read MoreAn Artist Seeks Reinvention by Living Off the Grid in “Far West”
Lala Abaddon doesn’t have an address. Her home, made from scratch, sits off a rocky road, deep in the desert mountains of the American West. “I wrote the realtor, and he thought I was crazy,” Abaddon recalls, about choosing the remote land. She made the move after feeling overwhelmed and depressed while living in New…
Read MoreViktor & Rolf Debuts Couture Cinderella Doll Collab With Disney, Mattel at Musée des Arts Décoratifs
FASHION FAIRY TALE: Viktor & Rolf will be on the red carpet during Paris Fashion Week. Mattel is extending its push into fashion brand collectibles with a limited-edition couture doll created in collaboration with Disney and Viktor & Rolf, to be unveiled Wednesday at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs. The limited-edition doll draws directly from…
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