The 102nd annual Met Gala, aka "Fashion Prom," will take place on May 3, 2027, in New York City. Every year, the star-studded ...

Marie Antoinette lived her life on full display. Born in 1755 as an Austrian archduchess, she was the 15th child of the Holy Roman Emperor and Empress. At 14, she was sent to marry the future king of ...

Black Queer fashion history is yesterday, today, and tomorrow. In celebration of Pride Month, every week in June, we will spotlight the contributions of prolific Black queer fashion designers. Willi ...

Eleanor Medhurst, a lesbian fashion historian based in Birmingham, UK, offers a wonderfully expansive exploration of lesbian fashion history in her first book, Unsuitable: A History of Lesbian Fashion ...

Designers who created early athleisure, the Playboy Bunny suit and Jackie O.’s wedding dress take pride of place in Keli Goff’s museum-worthy vintage collection. By Leah Faye Cooper “Isn’t it fabulous ...

How to talk about fashion history without Paul Poiret’s “Orientalist” approach; Yves Saint Laurent’s landmark collections inspired by China and Africa, or John Galliano, who threw countless ...

The 1960s birthed a lot of iconic fashion looks. The decade was undoubtedly a revolutionary moment in fashion history, known for major shifts in music, politics, culture, and crucially for us style ...

In many ways, preserving the true breadth of Black fashion history is a race against time. For too long, Black designers, models, agencies, innovators, muses, and trends have been sidelined and swept ...

The ’70s were a gloriously glamorous decade. With the advent of disco and New York’s famed Studio 54, the biggest stars of that time turned out in their most dazzling ‘fits (read: completely ...

As avid followers of the Met Gala may know, the purpose of the soiree is to raise money for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute. Since its inception, the Met Gala has, in essence, been ...