Stella Ishii uses a paper calendar to keep track of the date. Each morning she rips off the day’s page, puts it aside, and goes about her day. Nothing particularly extraordinary, except that she keeps every single page, and has done for years. This same diaristic approach is one that her and her 6397 co-conspirators, … Read more
You’ve just gotten home from the club. On the way to your apartment, you stopped by the corner deli and picked up a sandwich—if you’re one of the lucky ones who lives by a deli that’s open that late. Let’s say it was a classic New York chopped cheese. So you sit on the couch … Read more
The internet may have declared the ribbon to be out, but according to designer Reem Acra, there’s nothing more classic. Acra, after all, is a timeless designer: while trends come and go, there will always be a market for classic evening wear in beautiful colors, adorned with sequins galore. But even though Acra prefers the … Read more
Cole Escola, Martha Stewart, Addison Rae, and Thom Browne walk into a bar…It’s not the beginning of what would be a legendary joke were I swifter with a punchline, but how my evening started last night at The Commerce Inn in the West Village at Thom Browne’s super-secret, no-press, VIPs-only, surprise non-Fashion Week (but definitely … Read more
Tory Burch transformed the atrium of the Domino Sugar Factory—Skylight at the Refinery is its official new name—into a pool, with walls and floor in aqua tiles. We were a dozen stories in the air and underwater at the same time, which is fitting because backstage Burch was talking about opposites: “power and grace, precision … Read more
It’s been a minute since Edvin Thompson staged a show in the city, so it was a shame that his buzzy return to New York Fashion Week today was clouded by a seriously late start time. If only one could say it took a minute—more like 76. The show started just over an hour and … Read more
Marina Moscone was after “something softer” for spring. “Probably motherhood helps with that,” added the designer as her parents tended to her adorable infant son. Soft and light as a breath of air were sheer overdresses with charmingly scalloped lettuce edges, the result of their bias construction. These over sheaths were simple, chic, and sort … Read more
Rentrayage’s Erin Beatty is experiencing a bit of a professional existential crisis. “I’ve found that my interest in fashion… doesn’t exist,” she said on a Zoom from her home in Connecticut. “The idea of fashion in this time and in this moment feels so self-aggrandizing, and I’ve really had to sit with it because that’s … Read more
There’s a heat wave sweeping Los Angeles right now, but that was not the inspiration for Rodarte’s spring collection—despite the presence of a big, bold sun in their lookbook images. “It’s an ode to California golden hour,” said Laura Mulleavy on a phone call. “Yes, it was all pretty organic; all the wildlife and the … Read more
For spring 2025 Lafayette148’s Emily Smith took us inside an artist’s studio. “Spring is synonymous with new beginnings and drawing is sort of the birth of every creative thing,” she explained at the presentation held in a Manhattan loft. The Lafayette148 team had zeroed in specifically on the act of figure drawing with charcoal; the … Read more
