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London —  As if there weren’t already enough showstopping outfits at London Fashion Week this weekend, the coinciding 79th British Academy Film Awards on Sunday offered another stage for brands to showcase their designs as Hollywood A-listers including Timothée Chalamet, Teyana Taylor, Chase Infiniti, Ethan Hawke and Kirsten Dunst descended on the city’s Royal Festival Hall for the UK’s glitziest film awards ceremony. Savvy stars understand the significance of the BAFTAs: Not only does it offer a chance to celebrate the best in British creativity, but its red carpet also offers an opportunity to propel one’s career. For years now, fashion…

London —  February in London is a complete misery of a time. The days are still short, the ground is wet and vitamin D levels are low. Hunkering down at home is surely the best course of action. At the Burberry show on Monday night, the brand’s creative director Daniel Lee had other ideas: Suck it up and get out there. Designed for a night out in bad weather, the new collection is about “celebrating” Britain in the winter, said Lee backstage, as those of us who haven’t seen the sun since September laughed at the idea of finding joy in…

London —  This season at London Fashion Week, designers made it clear that a runway is no longer the only way to go about staging a show. For every high-octane catwalk across the five-day schedule, there were a number of relaxed presentations and informal gatherings as some brands looked to save money, slow things down and connect with their community beyond the rigidity of assigned seating. In her second season as CEO of the British Fashion Council, Laura Weir summarized it best during her opening speech on Friday morning. “This week is not only a schedule of shows,” she said, reeling…

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Over the next few days, something unusual will be happening across Spanish soccer. Nearly 40 men’s professional clubs in La Liga’s top two divisions will take to the field wearing retro-looking uniforms inspired by their respective histories. The kits were first unveiled at Madrid Fashion Week and are part of a campaign celebrating the country’s love for the sport. It is a fitting prelude. Ten weeks later, the largest World Cup in history will be held across the US, Canada and Mexico — 48 teams, 104 matches, the most expansive commercial stage the sport has ever assembled. And many players…

EDITOR’S NOTE:  Featuring the good, the bad and the ugly, ‘Look of the Week’ is a regular series dedicated to unpacking the most talked about outfit of the last seven days. This spring, it’s all about tradwife with a twist. For a recording of the “Mark and Kelly Show” in New York on Wednesday, Elle Fanning wore a girlish iridescent tutu and a buttery yellow polo shirt. From the waist down, she was dressed in her shimmering Sunday best. From the waist up, the look was slouchy and boy-ish — like an off-duty tennis player, or someone’s golf-loving father. The…

Milan, Italy —  Backstage at the runway debut of the new new Gucci – the third rebrand that the luxury titan has undergone since Alessandro Michele left in 2022 – designer Demna was feeling the amore. “I hope I made you feel Gucci today,” he said. “The energy, the passion, the fun, the sexy…. I feel like I’m falling in love with this feeling I cannot really understand.” Before a single look appeared on the runway, Demna had already generated big feelings with a series of AI-generated images shared to Gucci’s Instagram page earlier this week. Alongside real pictures of Sophia…

The Screen Actors Guild Awards returned on Sunday evening, complete with a new name — and, for the first time ever, a thematic dress code. Now known as the Actor Awards, the annual ceremony’s 32nd edition sent attendees very specific sartorial instructions: “Reimagining Hollywood Glamour From the ’20s and ‘30s.” Some guests took the guidance more literally than others; many appeared to disregard the theme entirely. But there were, nonetheless, plenty of fringes, beaded embellishments and allusions to the jazz age on the red carpet at LA’s Shrine Auditorium. Chase Infiniti, the breakout star of Oscar favorite “One Battle After…

Milan, Italy —  There comes a time during fashion week, as you look at a throng of photographers fighting to capture photos of someone very thin wearing a very dated outfit, or watch Priscilla Chan — alongside her husband, Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg — stride into the Prada show wearing the €11,500 ($13,000 and change) Prada shearling coat with the blonde collar you fantasized about owning if you one day became a multimillionaire in some fabulously ethical way, when you ask yourself: who is all this for? Fashion has never been more omnipresent or less available. It has made itself as…