Aknvas Resort 2025: Shine On
“Last year we saw a really good sell-through with our resort collection, so I knew I wanted to do something around lights and sparkles, but finding sophisticated ways of doing …
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A Bold Ode to SoHo
It’s been five years since New York designer Sally LaPointe moved her brand’s headquarters to the SoHo corner of Howard and Crosby Streets. Since then she’s returned to the runway …
Lafayette 148’s Emily Smith Paints Venice Into Garments
Over the last two years Lafayette 148 has been building its partnership with nonprofit Save Venice by sponsoring the conservation of the early 18th-century painting “Virgin in Prayer” by female …
Avellano Fall 2024 Ready-to-Wear Runway, Fashion Show & Collection Review
Had there been a fashion show in sci-fi franchise “The Matrix,” it would have looked something like Avellano’s fall lineup. Over the years the French latex specialist has made his …
Sacai Fall 2024 Ready-to-Wear Runway, Fashion Show & Collection Review
Remember there is the word dress in dressing up. That was the takeaway from the fall collection of Sacai where designer Chitose Abe cut a lineup’s worth of them out …
Vivienne Tam Fall 2024 Ready-to-Wear Runway, Fashion Show & Collection Review
New York-based designer Vivienne Tam sought to bring “a vision of neo-modern Chinese beauty and craftsmanship” to Paris for the fall show celebrating her 30th anniversary. Basing her work largely …
Yohji Yamamoto Fall 2024 Ready-to-Wear Runway, Fashion Show & Collection Review
You could have heard a pin drop at Yohji Yamamoto in the silence that accompanied his opening black-clad models. Not that you did: the Japanese designer is a master tailor …
Mame Kurogouchi Fall 2024 Ready-to-Wear Runway, Fashion Show & Collection Review
Picking up where she left off last season, designer Maiko Kurogouchi once again mined Japan’s ceramics repertoire for the motifs and palette of her fall collection. This time it was …
Laura Biagiotti Fall 2024 Ready-to-Wear Runway, Fashion Show and Collection Review
Rome is never far from Lavinia Biagiotti’s heart and the designer this season brought a bit of the Italian capital to Milan’s Piccolo Teatro by setting breezy fabric columns on …
Maria McManus Fall 2024 Ready-to-Wear Runway, Fashion Show & Collection Review
Maria McManus’ fall collection was crafted in the vein of Irish architect Eileen Gray. The designer said Gray, one of the founders of modern minimalism, had an “incredible take on …