Nicole Rowe

A jewel may begin with a gemstone, but an artistic legacy often begins with paper: a pencil line, a wash of gouache, a half-formed creature or a note exchanged with a friend. Thousands of those traces survive in Paris, where Tiffany & Co. and the Musée des Arts Décoratifs have begun an ambitious effort to preserve the creative world of Jean Schlumberger. The four-year partnership will support the inventory, conservation, restoration and digitization of more than 5,000 designs, sketches and...

Paris Fashion Week has always been about clothes. It has never been only about clothes. When the Spring/Summer 2027 womenswear season begins on September 28, Paris will once again become fashion's most closely watched stage. Through October 6, designers, editors, buyers, artisans, photographers, celebrities and an enormous digital audience will participate in a ritual the city has spent generations perfecting: transforming clothing into cultural conversation. AI-generated image that does not...

Paris Fashion Week has always cultivated a certain mythology. Black cars pull up outside historic hôtels particuliers. Photographers gather behind barricades. Editors hurry between appointments, celebrities disappear through guarded entrances, and somewhere behind a discreet door, a collection that will influence what the world wears six months later is revealed for the first time. For the visitor arriving in Paris during Fashion Week, it can appear tantalizingly close; and completely...