I think Diane Keaton is the best-dressed woman alive. Also: her style icon is Karl Lagerfeld 😎 and like Rick Owens, she writes in all caps washingtonpost.com/style/fashion/…

good news for creativity in fashion: Haider Ackermann is the new creative director of Tom Ford

David Lauren, Jill Biden and Ralph Lauren in the one-night-only Polo Bar in Bridgehampton, after Ralph’s show

More designer churn: Glenn Martens is stepping down as creative director of Y/Project

Rihanna at the Alaia show at the Guggenheim

Anna Wintour kicks off fashion week with a march featuring Jill Biden. Yes: Anna marched and cheered and yes: she said she would give Doug Emhoff a Vogue cover if Kamala wins wapo.st/3Zcqa85

NYFW is here, from The Post's fashion writer Rachel Tashjian (Rachel Tashjian Wise): washingtonpost.com/style/2024/09/…

“A truly great fashion show compels you toward destruction. It makes you stare at yourself, your wardrobe — your life! — and dream of something else. You may feel embarrassment, even shame. You probably want to go home and throw out everything you own” wapo.st/3MGXxbm

OK, Martine Rose might convince me to buy something from Supreme for the first time in more than four years.

"Both candidates have a uniform. Funnily, they are similar: Loose, at times blousy suiting. A strong, padded shoulder..... And that uniform, for both candidates, includes an ornamental piece of fabric that hangs around their necks" washingtonpost.com/style/fashion/…

Every single outfit at the VMAs is bad, and bad in the same way

On politics, the runway and New York wapo.st/3XEnzm5

In the April 14, 2024 edition of Opulent Tips I proclaimed that, improbably, the big summer trend would be bloomers. And this week Casey Lewis gathered multiple pieces on the summer of bloomers. They don’t call me the prophet for nothin’

"A formidable, striking beauty and a designer with unwavering taste, unending curiosity, and a visionary approach to revivalist clothing.... she pillaged the past to create garments that are instantly recognizable as a 'Mary McFadden'" laurakitty.substack.com/p/mary-mcfadde…?

"Were these clothes sexy? Oh yeah. Were they the tasteful silhouettes—voluminous blazers, trousers that pool around expensive-looking loafers—that dominate fashion? Absolutely not. And were they what Off-White is known for: streetwear? No way." wapo.st/4efL7TQ

“As a Black designer, I know the challenges of navigating this industry, and I think Vice President Harris understands the significance of representation and support for Black-owned businesses.” LaQuan Smith on the great dress he made for Kamala Harris wapo.st/3ZkPxVf

A look at the boom of shopping Substacks, and how they're influencing, and being influenced by, the runways in New York: washingtonpost.com/style/fashion/…

Machine in the Garden, the newsletter that will never die. The Washington Post Rachel Tashjian Wise washingtonpost.com/style/fashion/…