
At Hart Hagerty, a Decade In, the Jewelry Title Is Earned
A seventh-generation Charlestonian's slow-built jewelry line shows how personal style, not trend, becomes a business.

A seventh-generation Charlestonian's slow-built jewelry line shows how personal style, not trend, becomes a business.

Ballet stage commissions, from Chanel's 1924 Le Train Bleu sportswear to Valentino's 2012 New York City Ballet gala delivery, serve houses as public craft tests.

Months of fittings, dressing rehearsals and lighting cues sit behind every few minutes a couture look spends in front of an audience.

The charity event pairs luxury fashion with cars this weekend in Denver — here is what the format is, and how to watch it with a critical eye.

A famous fashion designers list for the red carpet runs through Edith Head, Bob Mackie, and the Versace gown that pushed search into pictures.

Fashion houses borrow the terms of museums - curation, galleries, provenance - and the framing changes how a runway collection is read.

Luxury houses commission artists through a documented pattern of invitation, licensing, and dated product rollouts, traced here through three Louis Vuitton projects.

The cut, the stitch and the silhouette tell you the house long before the label does.

A maison archive catalogues garments, sketches, and swatches so a studio can quote its past with dates attached, the same discipline museums practice in public.

A look at the staging, technical and build work that production firms handle so a collection can walk on time.