Elsa Schiaparelli created her first trompe-l’oeil sweater in 1927. Channeling her playful deceptions and fanciful silhouettes ...

The limited-edition line, created in partnership with Comete Collective member Cécile Paravina, draws on Gabrielle Chanel’s ...

Surprising guests, Pugh sashayed down Reed’s catwalk in a number that was equal parts avant-garde and risqué ... matched the outfit’s experimental motif. Unlike the gown’s torso, which ...

“All the wealth that nurtures it seems only to increase its aura of power and mystique, and hence its distance from us,” Mr. Falconer writes in “How to Be Avant-Garde,” a group biography ...