Tuesday afternoon, I was wrapping up a column on wardrobe moving boxes (which has hence been bumped to next week) when the Express offices, on the fifth floor of an elderly Washington Post building, began to shake. I thought, “Oh, turbulence,&#...

Michelle Obama’s team confirmed the sad truth: Washington has no fashion sense. In the past, Mrs. Obama has hosted a luncheon for the National Design Awards, which honor both architectural and fashion designers, in July. For 2011, the White Hou...

Society tries to shield children from violence. We wouldn’t show “Inglourious Basterds” to tweens. But with sex, lines blur and critics spar. The indecent can pass for alluring, and French Vogue proved this sad fact. In a recent iss...

Last week, MAC Cosmetics announced a new collaboration with Cindy Sherman, the avant-garde photographer known for styling herself as odd caricatures. Since the ’70s, she’s snapped herself in costume, using cosmetics and prosthetics to mor...

Amy Winehouse looked a bit like a gap-toothed Dita Von Teese in 2004, before the tattoos, tabloids and addictions got the best of her. But that’s not when Chanel demigod Karl Lagerfeld dubbed her “the new Brigitte Bardot.” He praise...

Mulberry bushes are best known in nursery rhymes. Unless you’re a stockbroker. In the past 12 months, shares of British luxury leather goods company Mulberry rose 526 percent to $34 a share, making it the best-performing apparel retail stock in...

Recently, while waiting for a flight at Reagan, I watched a young girl struggle with the June edition of Vogue. She grimaced as she thumbed through it, as though she were reading hieroglyphics or Joyce’s “Ulysses.” After a few minut...

If I were directing a made-for-TV film based on Sarah Palin scion Bristol’s new memoir, “Not Afraid of Life: My Journey So Far,” the finale would go like this: Bristol (played by Katie Holmes), sits down for an on-air therapy sessio...

I once lived in a tiny Irish town where it rains 320 days a year. Being a native Floridian, I often took shelter in the local mall, which is where I first heard the term “High Street.” High Street is a shopping district in London; it̵...

‘Tis the season for intern spotting! This D.C. pastime is an exciting exercise in biological classification. Internus can be seen grabbing vacant seats on the Metro at rush hour or falling out of Georgetown haunts on weekends. But behavioral pa...

Tennessee music festival Bonnaroo came and went this past weekend. Summer music shindigs are about hearing Neil Young and dressing like him, too. But I’m not really a fan of the Buffalo Springfield-at-play look. It’s boho, and it’s ...

Last night, the first lady surely looked radiant at the state dinner honoring German Chancellor Angela Merkel, above. Trying to guess who Michelle Obama would wear made me wonder: What if she chose a German designer? “Wait,” you say, R...

At 0700 hours, you’re due at a secure compound in Bofunk, Va., where you’ll be interviewed for a covert government job that doesn’t exist. And even the whizzes behind the CIA World Factbook can’t help when you wonder, “W...

It’s been a busy few weeks for Carla Bruni, first lady of France. Last week, the former supermodel’s father-in-law revealed that she’s pregnant, which, perhaps, is why she wasn’t in Cannes to mark her film debut, in Woody Alle...