T’s Feb. 14 Women’s Fashion Issue

Highlights

1. ‘Mad Max’ Meets Motocross in Spring’s Most Daring Looks

   This season, the futuristic, techno, punk vibe is a powerful agent of change.

    

   

2. The Forceful Brilliance of Donatella Versace

   In the big leagues of fashion, there is only one designer who has consistently challenged the paradox of power and sex — and she’s done it with a laugh, a cigarette and a billion-dollar business.

    By Alice Gregory

   

3. Folkloric Florals for the Home

   A romance with centuries-old traditions is abloom on textiles, tapestries and china.

    

   

4. A Brisk Swim Across Martha’s Vineyard

   For no particular reason other than the romance of the idea, the writer and T’s deputy editor Hanya Yanagihara traversed the entire island’s mostly polite — and at times, dark — waters.

    By Hanya Yanagihara