Her father, Patrice Higonnet, is a French historian who told his young daughter tales of the French Revolution as bedtime stories. Higonnet loved learning about her heritage, but she didn’t view ...

In Revolution-era Paris, three radically chic media stars swept away centuries of strictures about what women should wear and how they should live. A new book unveils the other French Revolution.

In “Liberty Equality Fashion: The Women Who Styled the French Revolution,” Anne Higonnet explains how, a century before Coco Chanel released women from their restrictive dress, a trio of women ...

A major vacancy in the fashion world has been filled. On Thursday, Lanvin, the oldest continually operating French couture house, named Peter Copping its new artistic director, an appointment that ...