Ivy Thompson first started experimenting with her style in middle school. She embraced the Japanese Lolita street style before, at some point in high school, deciding “it wasn’t challenging anymore.” ...

With all the uncertainty in the world, a year-long run-up to a nail-biting presidential election and a barrage of over-stimulating social media, we all need a little escape once in a while. Designer ...

It was a performance of contrasts. Head held high, hand on the railing, Stowe artist and educator Polly Motley surveyed the marble staircase, reached for a tread with her foot and hovered elegantly ...

Starting from the Victorian era through the 20th century, feminist movements played a large role in American History by advocating for equal rights. During this time, many women were oppressed by men ...

“The Dress Diary” is an intimate record of one wardrobe — and its era. Anne Sykes’s collection of fabric remnants, lovingly preserved in an album, documents not merely her life but the Victorian era.

The most famous dolls in fashion were made for a French exhibition called “Théâtre de la Mode.” The dolls were 27.5 inches tall, their bodies hauntingly made of wire and their heads ghostly, sculpted ...

Guests dressed in Victorian-era clothing for the 20th anniversary of the event. Ivy Ceballo is a former staff photographer. Kelly A. Stefani is an editorial assistant who writes about things to do.