EXCLUSIVE: Mugler Unveils Handbag Campaign Starring Nude Female Bodybuilder

EXCLUSIVE: Mugler Unveils Handbag Campaign Starring Nude Female Bodybuilder

BODY OF WORK: Mugler is putting some muscle into its first dedicated handbag campaign under creative director Miguel Castro Freitas. The black-and-white nude photos by Chris Lensz feature bodybuilder Tatiana Horslaville, whose chiseled physique echoes the architectural lines of the Aurora bag — recalling Robert Mapplethorpe’s early ’80s portraits of Lisa Lyon, as well as…

Read More

EXCLUSIVE: Dior Plans to Stage a Pre-Fall Show in December

EXCLUSIVE: Dior Plans to Stage a Pre-Fall Show in December

EMERALD ISLE: Jonathan Anderson is bringing his career full circle, with plans to stage his first fashion show in Ireland in December. The Northern Irish designer plans to unveil his Dior pre-fall 2027 collection at Trinity College in Dublin on Dec. 4, WWD has learned. Anderson’s first job in fashion was at the Brown Thomas…

Read More

A Celebrity Photographer’s Hidden Stash of Polaroids

A Celebrity Photographer’s Hidden Stash of Polaroids

For the rest of the decade—the years represented by these Polaroids—she was booked and busy. “It was such a period of growth for me as a photographer,” Shur told me. “I really found myself, I’d say.” (She’s since released monographs exploring her travels to Japan and her neighborhood in L.A.) The Polaroids, meanwhile, tell some…

Read More

Madonna and the Muppets Made the Case for Love

Madonna and the Muppets Made the Case for Love

This year, for the first time ever, the FIFA World Cup final featured an eleven-minute halftime hullabaloo, co-headlined by four megastar acts: Madonna, Shakira, Justin Bieber, and BTS. The lineup—theoretically a diverse parade of talent, with two of the three host nations represented—was curated by Chris Martin, of Coldplay, a self-appointed apostle of good vibes,…

Read More

A New Crop of Unapologetic Sandwiches

A New Crop of Unapologetic Sandwiches

I’ve been worried, a little, that Unapologetic Foods was going soft. Over the past decade or so, the restaurant group more or less detonated the New York dining scene with Adda, Dhamaka, and Semma, whose undiluted, unwhitewashed takes on Indian cuisine—brains, offal, flaming spice—were a jolt to the city’s sleepy South Asian culinary landscape. Today,…

Read More

How the Beach Vacation Became a Country-Music Trope

How the Beach Vacation Became a Country-Music Trope

“The sun is hot,” Alan Jackson sings, accompanied by a trio of jaunty guitars (electric, acoustic, and pedal steel), and for a moment this sounds like a celebration. Instead, it turns out to be the beginning of a complaint: The sun is hot and that old clock is moving slow And so am I Workday…

Read More

How I Lost Faith in Google

How I Lost Faith in Google

This voice-of-Google thing—­a code I’d cracked for generating corpspeak with personality—­slowly became a hot commodity. The company relied heavily on the rhetoric of “culture” to keep tens of thousands of workers energized, giving a hundred and ten per cent. If work was going to be like a family, then it had to sound like one—maximally…

Read More