Archive - Dress Codes

Reader's Digest: Some Things Up On <Dress Codes>

Aka The [Mostly] French Dispatch.

Oct 17, 2025

Mixed Nuts: 5 Other Things from Paris Fashion Week

Just some snack-sized observations…

Oct 16, 2025

PFW: Top 5 New Designer Debuts

After months of chatter and sports fan-like speculation, these are the inaugural collections that really won us over. (CHANEL, no surprise!)

Oct 10, 2025

The French Pharmacy Edit

After years of snooping in French friends' bathrooms, these are the five things I always toss in my basket.

Oct 8, 2025

July 2025

What I mean when I write about fashion

Jul 28, 2025

June 2025

Welcome To My New, Post-Brand Era

How a lot of us are feeling 🤷🏻‍♀️ about the big fashion houses right now.

Jun 18, 2025

April 2025

Discovery Mode: Autry Sneakers

In 2019 a crew of Italians revived a languishing American sneaker brand, and made it even better. Get ready to see these shoes everywhere.

Apr 29, 2025

March 2025

Dossier #322: A Midnight Supper

A stack of unread New Yorkers and a half-read mystery novel waiting on her nightstand.

Mar 23, 2025

January 2025

Let's Get Weird

January is when the kooks come out to play.

Jan 29, 2025

Let's Hear It For The "I-Don't-Like-Its"

Sometimes it's the dissenters who know themselves best.

Jan 2, 2025

November 2024

O-N-I-T: A No-Recipe Recipe For "Salad-Style" Dressing

(No shopping required.)

Nov 4, 2024

August 2024

If My Bag Could Talk: Fashion Editor/Critic Katharine Zarrella

“I would probably be in jail. So let’s be thankful that it can’t.”

Aug 29, 2024