A look back at WWD’s comprehensive archives, featuring some of fashion’s most memorable moments.
Take a trip through time with the WWD archives, a treasure trove of the most fascinating moments in fashion, beauty, culture and beyond.
Trends may come, go and come back again, but the pages of WWD have never gone out of style as a trusted source to the fashion industry, covering some of the most compelling news stories for more than 100 years.
Fashion has the ability to inform, reshape and, perhaps most importantly, inspire. In the spirit of keeping inspiration alive, here is a nostalgic look back at the archives from On This Day in fashion history.
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April 8, 1976
Image Credit: Fairchild Fashion Media After the release of the scathing, high-society tell-all “Answered Prayers” left Truman Capote spurned by his beloved “Swans,” the sharp-tongued writer flippantly downplayed the betrayal, saying, “[The Swans] won’t understand, they’re so dumb,” as seen in WWD on April 8, 1976.
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April 5, 1985
Image Credit: Fairchild Fashion Media Donna Karan made a name for herself designing for Anne Klein, but she stepped out on her own with an eponymous debut collection of “clothes [that] balance the tailored with the sensual and ignore the ins and outs of fashion,” as seen in WWD on April 5, 1985.
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April 3, 1968
Image Credit: Fairchild Fashion Media Sarah Lawrence College student Hope Cooke found herself adapting to life as Queen of Sikkim, a small Buddhist kingdom high up in the Indian Himalayas, after a chance meeting in Darjeeling with the then-Crown Prince led to royal romance, as seen in WWD on April 3, 1968.
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April 1, 1987
Image Credit: Fairchild Fashion Media A trip to Newport Beach’s affluent Corona del Mar High School made it clear why the idyllic teen lifestyle in Orange County, Calif. would one day capture the attention of the masses, as seen in WWD on April 1, 1987.
