Veronique Hyland

Style Points is a weekly column about how fashion intersects with the wider world.When the 50th anniversary of hip-hop came around this summer, Sowmya Krishnamurthy, like so many fans, made the pilgrimage to Yankee Stadium to watch artists like Slick Rick and Big Daddy Kane being honored. “I love seeing the legends getting their flowers,” she says. Still, for the longtime music journalist and author of the new book Fashion Killa: How Hip-Hop Revolutionized High Fashion, there was a disconnect. T…

Style Points is a weekly column about how fashion intersects with the wider world.“Quiet luxury” and the safest of minimalism have had fashion in a chokehold for several seasons now, but it feels like we might finally be breaking free. This New York Fashion Week, all manner of stridently pretty motifs recalled the mid-2000s heyday of similarly demure styles. But instead of twee Peter Pan collars, there were more outré expressions of femininity: trailing ribbons, delicate lace, and a palette of…

The same fashion coup de foudre that most girls of her generation felt upon seeing Kate Moss or Alexa Chung struck Jenny Walton when she first watched Roman Holiday. That swirling full skirt Audrey Hepburn wore while careening around the Eternal City imprinted on a teenage Walton to such a degree that she started taking sewing classes and constructing her own clothes. (“Because,” she says, “I wasn’t really happy with what was at the mall in New Jersey.”) Walton, now an illustrator, influencer, a…

Alix Earle wants you to get ready with her.She glides highlighter over her face, tiger-striping her cheeks and forehead with bronzing drops, stippling a fluffy brush over the whole perfect canvas. Demystifying each step as she goes, she drops tips for “you guys” and mildly roasts herself. Referencing a Nars liquid blush, she says, “My friends were like, ‘You cannot post this. Do not sell it out.’” While styling her brows, she confides, “I really need to get my eyebrows done.”The whole time, she’…

Style Points is a weekly column about how fashion intersects with the wider world.“I’m up for anything. What do you want to know?”That’s how Pamela Anderson begins our conversation. It’s morning where she is, namely, at her rustic home on Vancouver Island, off the coast of Canada. Anderson has already been up for a while; she says this is her favorite time of day. She’s been spending the dawn hours working on a newsletter, which she jokes she mainly does to avoid writing her kids “long, rambling…

Style Points is a weekly column about how fashion intersects with the wider world.Picture it: Sicily. Your beaded wrap skirt jangles gently in the breeze, your Aperol Spritz held aloft on a heavily bangled arm. Your look encompasses both animal prints and florals. Congratulations: you’re having a hot Cavalli summer. Recently on Instagram, Parade CEO and creative director Cami Téllez declared it “Cavalli summer,” and influencers like Tinx quickly joined the movement. Bella Hadid, Kali Uchis, Emm…

Style Points is a weekly column about how fashion intersects with the wider world.FOMO has long been the driver of fashion trends. Whether it’s a limited-edition drop, that show only 100 people got invited to, or a miles-long waiting list for an “It” bag: introduce scarcity, and you have a recipe for desire. But with vacation season in full swing, we are now in full “grass is greener” territory. In the U.S., most of us have been plunged into dripping-air-conditioner season, mentally teleporting…