Michael Kors Pays Tribute to Big-City Glamour

When I began covering fashion in 1986, for the Detroit News, Michael Kors had been showing his collections for only a few years. This was the era of the Antwerp Six, of the dueling egos of Versace and Armani, of Gaultier and Mugler, and it marked as well the rise of Helmut Lang, Martin Margiela, Romeo Gigli, Christian Lacroix, and Marc Jacobs, not to mention the enormous clout of Seventh Avenue’s “Big Five”: Bill Blass, Oscar de la Renta, Ralph Lauren, Donna Karan, and Calvin Klein. Under these circumstances, who noticed a nice guy from Long Island making blazers and linen dresses? Indeed, by the early ’90s, and for a variety of reasons, Kors’s business was in trouble, and he sought bankruptcy protection.

Another horrible early-aughts trend is rearing its head, apparently: the whale tail. We love Harry Styles in Gucci, but who invited James Corden? There’s a petition to rename a national airport after JoJo Siwa. Watch the trailer for this movie where Billy Crystal and Tiffany Haddish become accidental friends. Congressional Black Caucus members are pressing for a narrower voting-rights strategy, focused on a bill named for the late Rep. John Lewis. And ten books that make the Earth come alive.

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