A black cashmere bodysuit shown against a backdrop of the New York City skyline by night. That’s how Donna Karan opened her fall show, drawing a direct line from her first collection, 20 years ago, ...

Bette Midler playing Janis Joplin in The Rose meets Virginia Woolf. Such are the entertaining tropes being used backstage to explain the outbreak of individualism in fall's fashion; that combination ...