Jennifer de Montgomery

Long before Instagram, fashion photography or the front row, there was another way to send a new silhouette into the world: dress a doll. It sounds almost quaint now, but miniature figures once carried fashion across borders. As early as the 14th century, according to New York’s Museum at FIT, dolls circulated through Europe as three-dimensional messengers of style, allowing clothing to be examined in a way that drawings could not quite replicate. By the early 20th century, the relationship...

There is something wonderfully unapologetic about September in New York. The sidewalks become runways, black cars multiply, impossible shoes suddenly seem perfectly reasonable at ten in the morning, and somewhere between SoHo and the Upper East Side, everyone appears to be either going to a fashion show or hoping you assume they are. New York Fashion Week returns September 10–15, 2026, and this season, with some 70 runway shows and presentations on the preliminary official CFDA calendar, the...

Fashion has always had a peculiar relationship with time. It insists on telling us what is new while constantly looking over its shoulder at what came before. Hemlines return. Silhouettes reappear. Handbags disappear into wardrobes only to emerge twenty years later as coveted vintage treasures. And occasionally, a garment survives so completely in our collective memory that it stops belonging to a season and becomes part of popular culture. The newspaper-print dress is one of them. This...