Should Making It in Fashion Be This Hard?

Elena Velez held up her phone. A banking app showed the available funds in her business account. It was Feb. 17. Earlier that week, she had held a runway show that earned her raves as an original voice in New York fashion; reviews from Vogue and others called her “urgent,” “provocative,” “delightfully deranged,” a “rare […]

Paparazzi Speak on Meghan and Harry’s Car Chase

“It’s a messed-up business,” said Roger Wong, a freelance photographer, who on Thursday evening was among a few dozen others waiting on a step and repeat outside the Hard Rock Hotel, near Times Square. He was hoping to get a sellable shot of Martha Stewart, one of this year’s cover models for Sports Illustrated’s annual […]

Meet the Woman Responsible for #AliyahCore

For Aliyah Bah, it always starts with a miniskirt. Then she throws on earmuffs — always earmuffs. In fact, the 20-year-old former college student (and TikTok phenomenon turned model) showed up to our interview over Zoom wearing pink star-shaped earmuffs that poked out of her chocolate brown hair, despite the temperature in Atlanta, where she […]