The Rachel Antonoff fall 2024 lookbook stars Jenny Slate and a look-alike puppet. “The vibe is all the world is a stage,” she explained from her Brooklyn studio. “It’s that feeling you have when you’re dressing up for a crush; I thought we should be bringing that same energy to everything.” Antonoff’s sartorial raison d’être … Read more
We are back today with another runway styling hack. As a refresher, this is a summertime series in which two Vogue Runway editors, Laia Garcia-Furtado and José Criales-Unzueta, test straight-off-the-runway trends and figure out how to style them in real life. Our backward-shirt experiment proved fruitful earlier this week—and surprisingly versatile—so we decided to up … Read more
A showroom appointment with Kiichiro Asakawa is always good fun. The 37-year-old Stein designer, who is tall, with a mass of curly hair and tinted spectacles, combs through his clothing rails at light speed, excitedly pulling out a leather jacket or cashmere coat and explaining the considerable thought that he put into fabricating each piece. … Read more
Rhude’s recent seasons on the Paris Fashion Week menswear calendar, observed Rhuigi Villaseñor, “have been a great, great honor.” He added: “And now I think for our next frontier, what makes sense for us is to present in a way that allows us to showcase lifestyle.” Villaseñor said this in front of one of the … Read more
A photograph of the designer and writer Pauline de Rothschild in her bedroom, with its hand-painted chinoiserie panels of flowering plants and trees, was Mary Katrantzou’s starting point for pre-fall. “This season,” she said, “I was really looking at this connection between interiors and exteriors.” Hence Rothschild’s “trompe l’oeil conservatoire,” and other dresses depicting ceiling … Read more
July can be a sleepy month in fashion—if not in American politics—so we thought this would be an ideal time to do an investigation on some of our favorite runway trends from the past year; focusing on trends that were styling-based as opposed to a new garment silhouette. We wanted to be able to try … Read more
For resort, designer Sergio Hudson attributes his new seasonal inspiration to a recent dream that he had. “I’m not a mystical designer, but I had a dream about a dress inspired by a tuxedo,” he said. The imaginary concept ignited an idea—to configure his whole collection around reinterpreting and reinventing the formal evening suit, and … Read more
Off-White was created by the late Virgil Abloh, an Illinois-born visionary of Ghanaian descent. It is headquartered in Milan, and shows in Paris. All this makes it a brand that defies national categorization, which is one part of its international appeal. However what seems almost remiss is that during nine years of operation there has … Read more
“It was a miserable, hot summer day, which was the 14th miserable, hot summer day in a row.” So speaks Carrie Bradshaw via voiceover in an episode of Sex and the City as Samantha walks down the street fanning herself desperately but to no avail. It’s simply too hot in the city, and all she’s … Read more
The Row-ification of fashion has been a good thing for House of Dagmar, the Stockholm-based brand that embraces a traditional kind of minimalism and is known for oversize jackets and tailoring, as well as the use of soft tones. “I’m not super into colors but I can really nerd into the different shades of white, … Read more
