Fifteen Max Mara Atelier coats were presented in Venice at the modernist Olivetti store, a spare, elegant space overlooking St. Mark’s Square, designed in 1958 by Italian architect Carlo Scarpa. It was a fitting frame for the high-end offer, which showcased Max Mara’s industrial savoir faire augmented by artisanal handmade finishes. The design team looked … Read more
The backside of a black car was sticking out of a window on the Grand Street side of Alexander Wang’s Soho store last night. A crash scene? That’s what CCTV video posted to his Instagram Stories earlier in the day suggested. Talk about a loaded metaphor! His brand is about to turn 20, but provocation … Read more
“There wasn’t a theme for senior students to respond to; it is all about their individual voices.” So said Gwen van den Eijnde, associate professor and apparel design department head at RISD, about the class of 2024’s final projects. Freedoms aside, a good number of the students’ thesis statements revealed they are both sensitive to … Read more
The Savannah College of Art and Design has a reputation for bringing the buzziest of fashion folk to the place where you least expect them; a quaint, historic city in the South. What else could Aurora James and Zerina Akers and industry insiders including Vogue’s Virginia Smith, Bruce Pask of Neiman Marcus, and Puck’s Lauren … Read more
In the golden age of couture it wasn’t unusual for collections to consist of a hundred or so looks; that doesn’t begin to hold a candle to Parsons’s BFA Fashion show. The class of 2024, numbering 275 students, said course director Marie Geneviève Cyr, is the school’s largest; and the show, with 175 exits, its … Read more
AnOnlyChild’s Maxwell Osborne was scheduled to present his fall 2024 collection on the runway at New York Fashion Week this past February. The show was initially postponed to a later date, but logistical difficulties got in the way. In lieu of a fall show, Osborne is releasing an edit of his fall collection he presented … Read more
There was a refreshing sense of lightness, and a nice balance between design and materiality, in the show that presented the work of 20 students graduating in Pratt’s Class of 2024. As a whole it felt more “fashion,” than the understandably navel-gazing student shows that marked the pandemic. Don’t get me wrong, these students aren’t … Read more
Like many designers working today, Cynthia Merhej has been grappling with big questions in the run-up to presenting her fall offering. What does it mean to show a fashion collection against a backdrop of war? Where is the line between personal opinion and brand statement? Having spent the last four months in Lebanon, where her … Read more
Rejina Pyo’s intriguing fusion of offbeat hues and playful silhouettes has cultivated a dedicated following, spanning from creative eccentrics to high net-worth gallerinas (she’s even noted that an increasing number of men are now part of her customer base). This has afforded her the liberty to present her collections on her own terms, whenever and … Read more
We were at Ralph Lauren’s 650 Madison Avenue headquarters for his show tonight. A few hours before its start time, a press release came through: The designer’s first womenswear show—in 1972!—was also held in his offices. In the 52 years that separate that inaugural moment and this one, much has changed, as black-and-white photos tracked … Read more
