Nathan Heller

From single-digit polling to top-tier status, Senator Elizabeth Warren has defied the odds with her presidential campaign. Can she go all the way?

IT IS THE RARE DESIGNER WHO CAN MOCK, shock, and unsettle the fashion industry while becoming one of its breakout heroes, but over the past decade Demna Gvasalia—the iconoclastic designer of Vetements and, since 2015, the creative director of Balenciaga—has turned insurrectionary energy into a constructive, covetable force. In 2014, Gvasalia cofounded Vetements, whose style (voluminous hoodies; ankle boots with cigarette lighters for heels; upcycled and repurposed denim) attracted a hundred imit…

After more than a decade traversing Europe, Balenciaga’s provocative creative director is producing some of the most creative and fashion of our era.

Is Fashion Ahead of Facial Recognition?

For a handful of ambitious, digitally minded, and homebound new creators, the past year has been not a curse but a passage forward.

“Every generation has to fight to maintain the progress of the past and fight again to advance that progress into the future,” explains Congresswoman Terri Sewell. “The old battles have become new again.”

For a decade, Nicolas Ghesquière’s Louis Vuitton has thought big—globally big—with its mix of historic narrative and futuristic vision. Fashion still holds a powerful sway for Ghesquière—but so too, he tells Nathan Heller, does a life far, far away from work.

In Paris And Capri With Simon Porte Jacquemus, The Sun-Kissed Designer Of The Moment

The new Chanel creative director’s first show was both widely anticipated and rapturously received. Nathan Heller reports from inside the preparations—and from the show itself.

In a mere dozen or so years, the Georgia-born designer has gone from Vetements’ wild child to the top of Gucci.