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      The Best Dressed Men at the 2025 Oscars Skipped the Traditional Tuxedo

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      At last night’s Oscars the men who skipped the penguin suits stole the spotlight. Stylists and brands should pay attention.If you wish to fully grasp Timothée Chalamet’s Oscars suit, you may do better to consult a food reporter rather than a fashion critic.They might be able to tell you the outfit was a shade of French butter. Or was it egg yolk? Perhaps just lemon?Whatever the tint of his monochrome look, Mr. Chalamet’s effervescent not-a-tux was the consensus gotta-talk-about-it outfit of the evening. There was certainly much to scrutinize. The jacket was cropped like a maitre d’s uniform. A tie? Overlooked. In its place, a dot of a pearl collar. The pants, which weren’t even suit pants but were, in fact, shaped like five pocket jeans, puddled indifferently around his glossed black boots.Timothée Chalamet was nominated for his role in “A Complete Unknown.” Nina Westervelt for The New York TimesIt’s unclear if this outfit was nodding to an outfit Bob Dylan once wore, as some of Mr. Chalamet’s carpet looks have during this award’s season sprint, but his Oscars look at least had the spirit of Dylan. (This critic’s theory: It was “Blonde on Blonde” in outfit form.) This was a suit that smirked at ceremony but felt glamorous and elevated despite it’s provocation.The unusual red carpet outfit also provided a crucial preview for Givenchy, who made it specially for Mr. Chalamet.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe. More

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      ASAP Rocky, Cleared in Legal Battle, Gets Right Back to Fashion

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      At a dinner in Milan the rapper spoke about beating his assault case, his maturing style and when a new album may finally arrive.ASAP Rocky is well aware that his life could be very different right now.“I feel so lucky to even be here talking to you,” Rocky said, speaking here late into the night on Thursday at a dinner celebrating his appointment as creative director for the Ray-Ban eyewear empire.After all, it was just last week that the rapper was found not guilty on charges of shooting a former collaborator, sparing him up to 24 years in jail.“I feel blessed, I feel lucky and fortunate,” Rocky said.And so, just after 10 p.m., and only a couple hours after landing in Italy, Rocky arrived at Trattoria del Ciumbia in an understandably triumphant mood.“I’m so happy to see y’all faces, this is crazy,” he called out to a room peppered with fashion designers, models and sundry celebrities like Romeo Beckham and Charli D’Amelio. For the remainder of the hour, Rocky worked the room like Frank Sinatra at the Copacabana.He shook hands and posed for endless photos with his eyes hidden behind blacked-out sunglasses. He autographed a box of his special-edition Ray-Bans printed with a reworked image of a $100 bill, with his face where Benjamin Franklin’s would normally appear. He poured shots of tequila for the table. If there were any lingering concerns about how the fashion world would receive post-trial Rocky, they were brushed away by hugs, clinked glasses and general good feelings pinging around the room.Clockwise from top left: Ice Spice, ASAP Rocky and Romeo Beckham, Charli D’Amelio, Amina Seck and Alioune Badara Fall.Photographs by Lucas PossiedeWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe. More

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      Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, Shares Brand Name With Small-Business Owner

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      The founder of a New York clothing brand learned that he had something in common with the Duchess of Sussex this week: a business called As Ever.Mark Kolski was sitting at his home in the Stuyvesant Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, drinking a cup of coffee by his sewing machine, when the messages started to pour in.On Tuesday, Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, had released the name for her new cooking and lifestyle brand, As Ever. But Mr. Kolski’s morning was thrown into tumult because the vintage-inspired workwear brand he started a decade ago is also named, as it happens, As Ever.“I started getting messages from friends and family and people that know my brand,” Mr. Kolski, 58, said. “And they were saying, ‘Have you seen this?’ There was just a lot of confusion, and I didn’t really know what to do.”Mr. Kolski’s life has been upended in the days since, his phone ringing incessantly, as he’s found himself thrown into a flurry of speculative tabloid coverage about Meghan’s use of his label’s name. In an interview this week, he said he had been reading up on trademark law and had consulted with a lawyer. His brand also has been discovered by new fans, his Instagram account netting thousands of followers.Mark Kolski started his vintage-inspired workwear brand a decade ago.Astrid DahlFor Meghan, the incident is the latest snarl in her efforts to create a lifestyle brand. Last year she announced that she was starting one called American Riviera Orchard, but her trademark application faced setbacks, including questions over the use of a geographic place name and the potential trademark’s similarity to Harry & David’s Royal Riviera products.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe. More

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      Street Style Look of the Week: Travel Outfits

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      The word “timeless” came to mind when I glimpsed Gilang Al Ghifari Lukman, left, and Medina Janneta El-Rahman at a ferry landing in Istanbul while I was in the city on vacation last November. Though it has been months since we met, I thought of them as I prepared to go to Europe for fashion shows this month.They are the type of stylish people I always hope to bump into when I’m traveling — the kind who give me a chance to break out my vintage Rolleiflex film camera, a model that was used by noted fashion photographers like Richard Avedon and Bert Stern and that I do not get to use enough on the street these days.Mr. Lukman, 27, and Ms. Rahman, 25, live in Birmingham, England, and were vacationing in Istanbul. They told me that they always liked to dress smartly. Both grew up in Indonesia, and Mr. Lukman said his style was influenced by how people there dressed and by the elegant fashions of Britain’s Edwardian era.His handsome satchel was made of goat leather, he said, and sentimental to him: “It was purchased with my first-ever salary from a dishwashing part-time job while studying in Kyoto.”

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      David Lynch Is an Unexpected Fashion Week Influencer

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      At Coach and Khaite, the director, who died last month, shaped the vibe.Outside the Coach show on Monday, a woman was marching around topless on Park Avenue. Her semi-nudity was a little startling, given the snow still piled on the sidewalks, but it went with the animal rights sign she was holding while shouting: “Coach leather kills! Coach leather kills!” These days you have to be pretty extreme to get people’s attention.Maybe that’s why Stuart Vevers, the creative director of Coach, and Catherine Holstein of Khaite said they were thinking about David Lynch, the master of the surreal and the extreme who died last month, when putting together their collections. Well, that and the fact that fashion loves a bit of cinematic inspiration. Retrospectives of Mr. Lynch’s most striking imagery have been ubiquitous. Technicolor normalcy taken to an absurd, terrifying length is apropos at the moment.Not that the results of either collection were that obviously Lynchian. But the shows did offer the sense that there was something unsettling lurking just under the leather. And each of them had a lot of leather.That the shows took place in the cavernous Park Avenue Armory was a coincidence, though Mr. Lynch might say there is no such thing.Ms. Holstein went very literally dark, setting her collection in a black circle that looked like an alien landing site encompassed by a circular runway/yellow brick road. (In a preview, she said that “The Wizard of Oz” was Mr. Lynch’s favorite movie, and she threw in some other movie citations, including Merchant Ivory and the costume designer Edith Head, for good measure). Out paraded models in a lot of black with the occasional shot of blood red, though it was unclear where everything was leading. Not to the Emerald City. Maybe “Twin Peaks.” Or “Mulholland Drive.”At Khaite, Catherine Holstein showed her runway collection in a circle that looked like an alien landing site.Hanna Tveite/KhaiteWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe. More

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      At the Super Bowl, Taylor Swift Was Dressing to Win

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      Sometimes game-day strategy extends to style.Well, that’s one way to be part of the team. For her Super Bowl LIX appearance, Taylor Swift, in New Orleans to support her boyfriend Travis Kelce, matched her game-day ’fit to the Chiefs’ game-day uniform.Dropping her usual Kansas City red, she opted for a double-breasted white Saint Laurent blazer over a pair of bedazzled Daisy Dukes and a white Alaïa bodysuit, with thigh-high white stiletto boots.All of that white immediately had some online speculating that Ms. Swift was having a bridal moment and preparing to get engaged (not to mention unexpectedly matching the all-white Akris outfit of Ivanka Trump, who accompanied her father to the game). A more likely explanation is that Ms. Swift was simply coordinating with the white away jerseys of the Chiefs, just like Britney Mahomes. Instead of a red number on her back, Ms. Swift carried a cherry-red Givenchy handbag and wore the ruby red Lorraine Schwartz “T” necklace she had draped around her thigh at the Grammys. (For Travis? For Taylor? Maybe both.)As a result, it was hard not to think that, in the game of fan fashion, she was dressing to win.The blazer and boots were fully in line with what increasingly seems like Ms. Swift’s uniform as chief Chiefs WAG. Over the last season she has become more and more comfortable turning game days into catwalks, matching the tunnel walk of Mr. Kelce with entrance-making looks of her own. As Mr. Kelce said during a recent pre-Super Bowl news conference, “Tay’s always gonna be dressed head-to-toe, looking the flyest.”Early on in their relationship, Ms. Taylor wore mostly fan gear, like the customized Chiefs jacket with Mr. Kelce’s number that was designed by her fellow WAG Kristin Juszczyk (wife of 49er Kyle). But this season Ms. Swift’s stylist, Joseph Cassell, who worked with her on the Eras Tour, has been involved in creating her game-day style. Which, not surprisingly, started to look pointedly similar to her late-stage Eras style (unlike, say, her early fairy princess style or her pandemic flowy folk style).Heavy on the corsets, shorts and boots, her football kit suggests that she decided to give up attempting to disguise herself as just any old fan, and doing so underscores the fact she is one half of a quasi-royal couple, who brings a power base all her own. Whether you like it or not, it’s clearly her on-show comfort zone.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe. More

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      Kate Moss, Christy Turlington and the New Calvin Klein

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      There hasn’t been a Calvin Klein runway show in almost seven years. Calvin Klein himself has not attended a runway show for his brand in nearly two decades. But on Friday, the brand, now designed by Veronica Leoni, and Mr. Klein returned.It was Day 2 of New York Fashion Week and the official unveiling of the Calvin Klein Collection, the high-end, high-fashion expression of the Klein look. The one that would prove it’s not just about jeans and underwear anymore.It was a homecoming in more ways than one.The show was held on the ground-floor gallery space at 205 West 39th Street, the garment district headquarters where Mr. Klein moved in the 1990s and where the company remains. The space was white, as per the original Calvin minimalist aesthetic, with white benches and a white carpet displaying a new logo in the black typeface of the old Obsession perfume ads. Mr. Klein, 82, who sold his company to PVH in 2002 and has mostly been off the fashion grid since then, made his entrance in a natty, black three-piece suit and tie like a good-will ambassador from another time.From left, Christy Turlington, Kelly Klein, Calvin Klein and Kate Moss at the fashion show on Friday.Jamie McCarthy/Getty ImagesSeated next to him was his former wife, Kelly Klein, and across the runway were his former muses, Kate Moss and Christy Turlington, in tailored black Calvin coats; Ms. Moss wore a slip dress beneath her coat. Nearby, Mario Sorrenti, who had photographed her naked Obsession ads back when they were a couple, was chatting to friends.“It’s very emotional,” Mr. Klein said of being back in his old office building and seeing his label back on the runway. It was a reminder of the heady days when Calvin Klein defined a certain kind of breathy, urbane American sportswear and drew the attention of the crowd to New York. The air was replete with nostalgia.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe. More

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      Critics Choice Awards 2025’s Unforgettable Looks: Ariana Grande, Demi Moore, and More

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      The question of what celebrities will wear to an awards show always looms large before any ceremony. But it took on new significance ahead of the 30th Critics Choice Awards in Santa Monica, Calif., on Friday: After postponing the event twice because of the Los Angeles wildfires, organizers announced that a red-carpet preshow would not be part of the televised broadcast.How might that decision influence the fashion choices of the television and movie stars in attendance? Would they be riskier? More relaxed?As people started arriving, it soon became clear that absence of TV cameras on the carpet hadn’t stopped most from taking big style swings. For myriad reasons — most of them good — these 14 looks were among the most memorable from the Critics Choice Awards.Nicole Kidman: Most Humphrey Bogart!Daniel Cole/ReutersInstead of a gown, the “Lioness” and “Babygirl” actress went with a broad-shouldered Saint Laurent suit jacket, high-waist pants and a polka-dot tie, an ensemble that evoked the men’s wear of Old Hollywood.Ariana Grande: Most Jellyfish!Allison Dinner/EPA, via ShutterstockWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe. More