Iceland

How to make the most of an extended layover in the Land of Fire and Ice.

• By Whitney Bauck
  Jan 9, 2017

All the Friday fashion news you need to know.

• By Eliza Brooke
  Apr 4, 2014

Once a year the top designers from Iceland come together in the nation’s capital, Reykjavik, for a festival of Icelandic fashion. The event may not

• By Jo Piazza
  Mar 21, 2013

Reykjavik--These Icelanders sure know how to put on a show. I was mere minutes into the Reykjavik Fashion Festival when I realized I might be watching a simulated snuff film while seated in the subterranean parking garage of the city’s Harpa Opera House where the week’s first show, Mundi, was taking place. The short flick featured a post-apocalyptic gang of well-dressed hooligans in bold patterned wool knits riding rough shod over the Icelandic highlands on the stocky yet self-assured Icelandic horse (a Viking breed that you mustn’t call a pony lest you upset the locals). At their destination they electrocute a man using energy from the country’s indigenous hot springs (so eco, so green, so wrong).

• By Jo Piazza
  Apr 3, 2012