Fashion Notes: 12 Best and Worst Dressed at the 2022 Oscars
The 94th Academy Awards were anything but a bore this year, and neither was the red carpet. In this Fashion Notes, I break down my best and worst dressed for the evening.

The 94th Academy Awards were anything but a bore this year, and neither was the red carpet. In this Fashion Notes, I break down my best and worst dressed for the evening.
The 2022 Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards was a real snooze, a showcase in self-absorbed snobbery from some of Hollywood most smug elites. Luckily, we’re ignoring that here and just judging the fashion on the red carpet.
MILAN — Dolce&Gabbana announced Monday that it would drop the use of animal fur in all its collections starting this year, and transition to eco-friendly faux fur.
The February 2022 cover of British Vogue featuring nine African models is being slammed by critics who say the issue’s photo makes the women appear unnatural.
Supermodel Brooks Nader says someone put Apple’s new tracking device, AirTags, in her coat pocket, and used it to stalk her while she was out one night in New York City. The 25-year-old Sports Illustrated Swimsuit model explained in an
Designer Virgil Abloh, a leading fashion executive hailed as the Karl Lagerfeld of his generation, has died of cancer. He was 41.
Chinese photographer Chen Man vowed to “educate” herself on Chinese history and improve her “ideologies” on Tuesday in a blog post after the Chinese Communist Party declared a photograph of an Asian woman she shot for the French luxury fashion house Christian Dior racist.
The French luxury fashion house Christian Dior removed a photo of a Chinese model holding one of its handbags from a Shanghai art exhibit on Thursday just two days after Chinese state media outlets published articles online criticizing the image as “smearing Asian women.”
Pop star Harry Styles is introducing a gender-neutral beauty brand, called “Pleasing,” which is inspired by the products he uses for his own beauty routine.
Popular fashion designer Tom Ford says the woke moral panic over “appropriation” is limiting fashion — that “cancel culture inhibits design.”
United Colors of Benetton has launched a ‘unisex’ Islamic veil known as the Hijab in partnership with an Italian-Tunisian rapper.
The French luxury fashion label Givenchy is under fire for featuring a necklace resembling what many say is a noose during its runway show at Paris Fashion Week.
Canadian fashion mogul Peter Nygard agreed in a Canadian court on Friday to being extradited to the United States where he is facing charges of raping dozens of women and girls, sex trafficking, and racketeering.
Pop star Rihanna’s annual Savage x Fenty lingerie show is under fire for featuring non-black women with braids in their hair.
Director Ryan Murphy’s Impeachment: American Crime Story on FX premiered last week, serving up a delicious opening for a scandal that has all the right aesthetics.
Grimes, the experimental musical artist and mother to Elon Musk’s youngest child, brought a sword “crafted from a Colt AR-15” to the Met Gala on September 13, 2021, as a fashion accessory.
The 2021 Met Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art opened its latest exhibit on Monday evening, “Celebrating In America: A Lexicon Of Fashion.” With that said, one would think there’d be tons of homage and iconography dedicated to the
Dozens of models are reportedly accusing Gérald Marie — a former chief of the modeling agency Elite Model Management and, for three decades, was one of the most powerful men in the fashion industry — of rape and sexual misconduct.
Vogue magazine, which no longer hides its left-wing agenda, lays out the case for “climate change” via a glowing profile of Swedish teen activist Greta Thunberg.
France is investgating four fashion companies for the alleged use of slave labour in the Xinjiang region of China.
We’re less than six months into Jill Biden as First Lady, and yet it feels as though we’ve already seen everything we’re going to see over the next four years in terms of fashion. In short, very little.
British model Jourdan Dunn says it is “fucked up” that she has been paid less than her white peers, such as Cara Delevigne and Karlie Kloss, supposedly because of her “skin tone.”
Actress Lena Dunham has partnered with 11 Honoré for a new line of plus-sized designer clothing.
The Black Lives Matter supporting fast-fashion giant Boohoo and its suppliers are facing an import ban from the United States over allegations that the British-based company employs slave labour.
The Guardian has amended an article decrying the “phallic” necktie as a symbol of “white male power” to correct an erroneous assertion that it is based on the codpiece.
Vice President Kamala Harris is getting flack for recently wearing Dolce & Gabbana because the brand has been accused of racism.
Vice President Kamala Harris’ 21-year-old stepdaughter Ella Emhoff has signed a deal with one of the world’s most prestigious modeling agencies, IMG Models. “It’s not really about shape, size or gender any more,” Ivan Bart, the president of IMG Models, told
The inauguration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris next week will be like no other and some hope it will feature the vice president in a sari.
After months of falling prices and depressed demand, prices in many apparel categories rose for the second consecutive month in December.
Stephen Lamar, head of the American Apparel and Footwear Association (AAFA), told a session of the U.S. House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Trade on Thursday that import bans on products from China’s Xinjiang province could “wreak havoc” on supply chains.
The former leader of the Conservative Party, Sir Iain Duncan Smith, said that the Chinese coronavirus exposed the scourge of modern-day slavery in the Labour Party stronghold of Leicester and other locations throughout the United Kingdom.
CAIRO — The woman accosted Yasmeen Samir as she swam with her family at a pool in a resort on the North Coast, a stretch of Mediterranean beaches reserved for Egypt’s upper echelons. The reason: Samir was wearing a burkini, a swimsuit worn by conservative Muslims to cover the entire body.
Kanye West is bringing his Yeezy brand to Gap. The rap superstar will design adult and kids’ clothing that will be sold at the chain’s stores next year.
Luxury brands across American cities are taking a hit these days, literally, as riots and looting rages on in the wake of the police involved death of George Floyd.
Decorated cloth face coverings inspired by the coronavirus pandemic could become an “essential” fashion accessory, with major British online retailers already selling animal and skeleton print masks.
Homosexual activist Alok Vaid-Menon said at a fashion gathering that the industry should end clothing designed for men or women.
Models like Bella Hadid and others were allegedly sexually harassed by Victoria’s Secret executive Ed Razek, according to a new report by the New York Times.
Hotel heiress Nicky Hilton Rothschild unveiled her masterplan to fight climate change: wear vintage luxury designer clothes like Chanel and taking the New York City subway.
First Lady Melania Trump kicked off a new year of her iconic style, carefully crafted with friend Hervé Pierre, in a timeless jumpsuit that continues to draw on the original aesthetic of 1970s Celine.
The 77th Golden Globes red carpet felt extra star-studded this year, with some of Hollywood’s most famous A-listers coming out to play in their beaded gowns, Chopard jewels, and sky-high stilettos.