Georgina Chapman found inspiration far from home for her spring 2025 collection, looking to the Nemichi Shrine in Seki, Japan. The designer didn’t borrow aesthetics from the structure itself, but rather from the adjacent koi pond. Marchesa’s offering is an ode to water, with metallic fabrics mimicking light refracting off the water, wave-like lace appliqués, […]
For spring, Emily Adams Bode Aujla continued to explore American athletic wear, which she began looking at last season with the launch of a secondary line, Bode Recreation, and a hugely successful collaboration with Nike. To start, she was thinking about a kind of “beach pajama,” inspired by the garments that people wore to the […]
Stella Jean once again finds herself rewinding the tape of her memories to build her latest collection, reviving a creative process where retrospection and introspection are indispensable tools. Quoting one of her favorite Luigi Pirandello novels for the collection’s title, One, None and One Hundred Thousand Kilometers, she seeks to frame the new Italian multicultural […]
You can hear a Duro Olowu presentation before you see it. Walking up the stairs to the apartment he borrowed from a friend to show his clothes this season—the interiors a maximalist riot of patterns and prints wholly befitting Olowu’s own eye for clashing extremes—you could hear the peals of laughter echoing down the corridor […]
In a razzle-dazzle of lights, cameras, and non-stop party-action, Christopher Kane’s “Residency” collection for Self-Portrait set off like a fireworks display in London last night. Blinging crystal, pastel frills, chainmail, teeny-tiny body-con dresses—all the elements that fueled his explosive debut in spring 2007 were there. “Look! She’s like a Faberge egg!” Kane laughed, admiring a […]
Last season was Derek Lam’s first as the creative director of Callas Milano. The brand had established itself as a purveyor of refined wardrobe staples—silk twill shirts, smart pants, a classic trench. Lam’s arrival brought a more polished formality to the fall offering. Notable additions included a jacket with New Look proportions through the waist […]
It’s been a benchmark year for Maryam Nassir Zadeh, what with a sell-out J.Crew collaboration and a pair-up with ba&sh, which together gave her particular brand of downtown cool some major exposure. These “extracircirculars” were anything but a distraction when it came to creating her namesake collection for spring, however: “I felt more clear about […]
Early this month, as Paris Fashion Week was winding down, Cynthia Merhej transformed her apartment into a showroom and put as brave a face as possible on a situation that already was challenging and only has gotten worse since. “When things are bad, it’s good to have something to throw yourself into,” said the Beirut-based […]
