The Best of Fashion Week
Rebecca Dana is a culture correspondent for The Daily Beast. A former editor and reporter for the Wall Street Journal, she has also written for the New York Times, the New York Observer, Rolling Stone and Slate, among other publications.
They came, they catwalked, they partied with Lady Gaga. After eight jam-packed days and nights, fashion week is over. The Daily Beast's Rebecca Dana picks the top ten collections.
Sisters Kate and Laura Mulleavy took a trip last year to Death Valley-and it shows. The designers built on their fall collection, which paired loos...
Fall's 'It' Shoes
Alisa Gould-Simon is a Brooklyn-based freelance writer. She also covers fashion and culture for BlackBook, New York magazine, and PAPER among other publications.
From skyscraper heels to punk-rock studding, the new footwear styles aren't for the faint of heart.
Fashion's Next Generation
Alisa Gould-Simon is a Brooklyn-based freelance writer. She also covers fashion and culture for BlackBook, New York magazine, and PAPER among other publications.
Will there ever be another Armani? Calvin Klein? Valentino? Meet 10 superstars worthy of filling the most legendary designers' shoes.
How the Other Half Still Lives
Sameer Reddy is a Special Correspondent for Newsweek International, to which he contributes two columns - Top Shelf, which deals with luxury, and Tendencies, a survey of trends in culture. He also contributes features on fashion, lifestyle and luxury to Newsweek, Departures, T, and Vogue India, among others. Based out of Berlin, he edits a recently launched blog about aesthetics, www.the-comment.com, while consuming large amounts of sausage and gluten-free pretzels.
Not everyone's cutting back these days. Now more than ever, the wealthy are springing for megayachts, private jets, and $30,000 designer gowns. Sameer Reddy reports.
Bikini Bistro
Alisa Gould-Simon is a Brooklyn-based freelance writer. She also covers fashion and culture for BlackBook, New York magazine, and PAPER among other publications.
From a revival of the teeny polka-dot bikini to a fresh take on sleek surfer-girl neoprene, The Daily Beast's Alisa Gould-Simon picks the best new beachwear of 2009.
Fat-shionistas Unite!
Renata Espinosa is the New York editor of Fashion Wire Daily. She is also the co-founder of impressionistic fashion and art blog TheNuNu and a sometimes backup dancer for "The Anna Copa Cabanna Show."
With the first Full-Figured Fashion Week kicking off in New York, Renata Espinosa talks to plus-size bloggers and designers about chic clothes for the curvier set.
The Week in Culture
Rachel Syme is culture editor of The Daily Beast.
Michelle Obama made jazz cooler, Taylor Swift rapped, Lauren Conrad wrote a book...and Woody's back. VIEW OUR GALLERY for the best of the week in TV, film, music, and art.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
Gerald Posner is The Daily Beast's Chief Investigative Reporter. He's the award-winning author of 10 investigative nonfiction bestsellers, ranging from political assassinations, to Nazi war criminals, to 9/11, to terrorism. His latest book, Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth and Power—A Dispatch from the Beach, was published in October. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, the author Trisha Posner.
Martin Jacques is the cofounder of the UK think tank Demos, writes a regular column for The Guardian, and is a visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics Asia Research Centre. His new book, When China Rules the World, is available now.
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