Destroy/Rankin is not your usual photo retrospective. The book, which comes out stateside next week, does feature a collection of portraits shot by photographer, filmmaker, and Dazed & Confused co-founder Rankin over the course of his career; so far, so typical. Not so typical? The fact that Rankin handed those portraits back to his subjects, [...]

When someone says black lace, I think of Sicilian widows, not spring dressing, but it might be time to reconsider after Liv Tyler and Kylie Minogue both worked the red carpet wearing curvy filigreed sheaths in deepest noir this week. And don’t forget Stella McCartney, Kate Bosworth, Kerry Washington, and Anne Hathaway at the Met [...]

You could tell something was up from the first strains of Klaus Nomi’s “The Cold Song” on the soundtrack at Jean Paul Gaultier: Fashion’s former enfant terrible was having an eighties moment in a major way. A roll call of the era’s icons made appearances: paparazzi angling for a shot of Kylie Minogue in the [...]