All posts tagged: fit check

Should We Be Talking About Celebrities’ Bodies?

Should We Be Talking About Celebrities’ Bodies?

Published by Sam Flores

It’s strict over at Cannes! The film festival is known for its famous dress code: black-tie only for red-carpet gala screenings, meaning evening gowns for women and tuxedos for men. Last year, the conversation was all about how Cannes introduced bans on both “naked dresses,” which we can probably thank Bella Hadid for after she wore a suggestion of a sheath by Saint Laurent on the red carpet back in 2024, and overly voluminous gowns for simple logistics: There are a lot of steps! This year, the ban on naked dresses and too-big frocks remains, and attendees are now asked to wear “elegant shoes” rather than heels. Yet dress codes are not the topic du jour. The talk surrounding red carpets this year is a far thornier one: the state of celebrity bodies. Namely, everyone’s too thin. This isn’t news—the big, ongoing GLP-1 wave hit Hollywood early—but, if at first the chatter was about who was taking “the stab” and who wasn’t, nowadays it’s about the size of everyone’s waist and how visible their sternums …

Stylist Karla Welch Doesn’t Read Best-Dressed Lists Anymore

Stylist Karla Welch Doesn’t Read Best-Dressed Lists Anymore

Published by Sam Flores

Karla Welch was only supposed to style two people for the 2026 Met Gala. She ended up with six: Sarah Paulson, Tessa Thompson, Olivia Wilde, Greta Gerwig, Karlie Kloss, and Misty Copeland. Welch is the fashion equivalent to a Swiss Army knife. Known as a prolific celebrity stylist, she has done a bit of everything, be that styling Kamala Harris while she campaigned alongside Joe Biden and during the better part of her vice presidency; founding the Period Company, a period underwear brand; and starting an app, Wishi, a personal-styling service that connects users with experts for wardrobe advice and shopping recommendations. Welch is also behind some of today’s best-dressed women: Paulson, Thompson, Tracee Ellis Ross, and Renate Reinsve. Just over one week before this year’s Met Gala, Welch posted a TikTok—she’s an enthusiastic social media user—in which she said she’d just been informed that one of her A-list clients was attending the festivities. How does one pull off the presumably gargantuan task of putting together a Met-worthy look in a week? I called Welch …

First Look: See What’s Inside the Met Gala’s “Costume Art” Exhibition

First Look: See What’s Inside the Met Gala’s “Costume Art” Exhibition

Published by Sam Flores

“Costume Art,” the spring exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute, has not arrived without its fair share of controversy. The accompanying Costume Institute Benefit, known widely as the Met Gala, has this year been sponsored by Lauren Sánchez Bezos and Jeff Bezos, which has prompted some corners of the internet to dub the event the “Bezos gala” and to call for a boycott in retaliation to the couple’s connections with President Donald Trump. Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced he’d skip the gala, breaking a years-long tradition of New York mayors attending as guests. And yet, Anna Wintour and the museum’s director, Max Hollein, announced that this year’s gala is expected to have raised $42 million for the Costume Institute, the biggest fundraising draw in history. “Costume Art” inaugurates Condé M. Nast Galleries, named after the founder of Condé Nast, in honor of a substantial gift from the company (which also owns Vanity Fair). The exhibition itself is one of the best Andrew Bolton, the head curator at the Costume Institute, has mounted. All …

The Good, the Bad, and the Just Fine of The Devil Wears Prada 2

The Good, the Bad, and the Just Fine of The Devil Wears Prada 2

Published by Sam Flores

As I sat in an AMC theater on 34th Street to watch Anne Hathaway, Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt, and Stanley Tucci reunite onscreen for The Devil Wears Prada 2, all I could do was quote Euphoria’s Maddy Perez when, in season two, she watches her friend Lexi put on a play about their friend group. “Is this fucking play about us?” she asks rhetorically, puzzled by the performance. Yes, this play is about us. And it got a lot of it right. The premise of the much-discussed sequel, which hits theaters this Friday, is that Andy Sachs (Hathaway) returns to Runway, the fictional magazine under the editorship of Miranda Priestly (Streep), to help her formidable boss navigate a new media landscape that has seen the power shift from publications to brands and advertisers. You see Emily Charlton (Blunt), now an executive at Dior, practically scold Miranda after a misstep and—gasp—give her marching orders. You see Nigel Kipling (Tucci) lament how the magazine is no longer a magazine, but a website and an app, and how …

A Style History of “Nerd Prom”: The White House Correspondents’ Dinner

A Style History of “Nerd Prom”: The White House Correspondents’ Dinner

Published by Sam Flores

Did you know that one of the most famous and widely circulated photos of John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette Kennedy was taken at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner? Back in 1999, months before their tragic deaths, JFK Jr. and CBK, as they’re known by the zillennials who consider them their style oracles, attended the yearly dinner. Carolyn wore a Jean Paul Gaultier haute couture frock from that very same year’s spring collection—its been endlessly mood-boarded and reshared as fashion inspiration. The dinner is not quite as much of a sartorial touchpoint as the Met Gala, which follows it by days, but it has, over the years, delivered its fair share of fashion catnip. As the fashion world anticipates the arrival of the first Monday in May, politicos in Washington, DC, are expecting Donald Trump and Melania to appear at the dinner for the first time since the former became president. This year’s Met Gala is being sponsored, in part, by Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez Bezos. We’re in for a tale of two …

What the Fashion at Coachella Says About the State of the Festival

What the Fashion at Coachella Says About the State of the Festival

Published by Sam Flores

There was a time, pre-Beychella—as in, Beyoncé’s historic 2018 Coachella headline performance—when the emblematic California music festival was known for its freewheeling, bohemian sensibility: A sun-drenched American counterpart to England’s muddy, gritty Glastonbury. That is no longer the case. Instead, Coachella today is representative of an America transformed by the Covid-19 pandemic, Donald Trump, and well, yes, Queen Bey. It’s about scale, marketing, content, and influence—and influencers. The biggest tell is its lineup of headliners, which each year goes more mainstream and more pop. This time around, it’s Sabrina Carpenter, Justin Bieber, and Karol G who have the honor. What they wore last week—and what people wore to see them, and possibly what they have in store this weekend for round two—is where Coachella’s transformation has become most evident. Beyoncé was the first Black woman to headline Coachella, and her performance, which broke viewership and streaming records for the festival and spawned a Netflix documentary, quickly became the new standard. “Homecoming” paid tribute to historically Black colleges and universities, and its costumes were created by …

Can OnlyFans Save Fashion? | Vanity Fair

Can OnlyFans Save Fashion? | Vanity Fair

Published by Sam Flores

Earlier this year, after the fall-winter 2026 collections in Paris, I wrote about sex. More specifically, about how luxury brands were offering it up on the runway, in some ways hearkening back to the licentious fashion of the late 1990s and aughts, and in some others recontextualizing it for the post-#MeToo, post-COVID-pandemic era of the 21st century. Haider Ackermann considered the art of street cruising at Tom Ford, which Anthony Vaccarello had explored a season prior at Saint Laurent. At Jean Paul Gaultier, Duran Lantink cut his skirts in such a way as to make it appear that their wearers were pitching a tent, if you catch my drift, and at Gucci, Demna outfitted Kate Moss with a thong and armed his very buff models with very tight shirts. It was a season in which so much of what we saw felt sexualized, yet it was not always sexy. This contradiction is representative of the way sex operates within culture at large. All over Instagram and TikTok are male “creators,” a nebulous evolution of the …

The Designer Miguel Adrover Has A Few Things to Say

The Designer Miguel Adrover Has A Few Things to Say

Published by Sam Flores

You have a monopoly that shuts the doors to everyone else. Even in fashion schools now you are training young people to be creative servants. Their biggest hope is to get hired by a corporation like LVMH. I went to fashion school. You are trained to want one of those jobs. So much in fashion has changed… They study John Galliano and all those designers and then when you look at the runways you see copies. That’s how they [corporations] maintain the structure that supports them. I think I was a sort of spice in the salad of fashion. You need to be careful, because they also need someone that sows some discord, because it makes everything more exciting now that everything has been bought off. But in the end, you also become part of it because they take advantage of you. What’s also tough today is that there are no more critics. I remember back then, Cathy Horyn and Suzy Menkes… criticism was very different then. Now Cathy Horyn walks the runway for Demna …

Could Hollywood Move Away From Stylists?

Could Hollywood Move Away From Stylists?

Published by Sam Flores

Over the weekend, I also spoke with Odessa A’zion about her Oscar weekend looks. A breakout star this season with her turns in Marty Supreme and I Love LA, A’zion also styles herself. The current setup of the stylist ecosystem, in which stylists like Goldberg or Law Roach nowadays do more than merely pick an outfit, but serve as intermediaries, power brokers, and mediators with brands and designers, is a result of the corporatization of fashion over the course of the past three decades, as conglomerates like LVMH and Kering absorbed most luxury labels. “The thing that’s changed more than anything is the way brands function with VIP [talent] and stylists,” Kate Young, one of Hollywood’s OG power stylists, told me last month. “It has changed dramatically post-COVID, and I think it’s really changing right now too, with all the new regimes. Every house with a new designer is getting a new VIP team, which means they’re getting a new strategy…. Now, so much is on contract and predetermined. People are really laser-focused on their …