Part of the joy of leafing through a new Chopova Lowena collection is discovering what unlikely pair of ideas designers Emma Chopova and Laura Lowena-Irons have decided to mash together through their process of bewitching sartorial alchemy. (Skateboarding and folk festivals! Lacrosse and death metal! Turkish school uniforms and women’s jockey gear!) Yet while their … Read more
After leading us through three seasons of camping adventures, Natasha Zinko transported the fashion brat pack to outer space for fall. Drawing inspiration from Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, where space travel was depicted as a mundane everyday activity—“like buying a train ticket,” said Zinko—the collection explored themes of life where space attire is … Read more
Yara Flinn’s Williamsburg store will be celebrating its second anniversary this May. Her studio is right below her store, and like every good business owner she actively listens to feedback from her customers; she also gets inspiration on new styling tips from them. “I’ve never really had this direct feedback before,” she said. “This kind … Read more
At Rodarte this season, Kate and Laura Mulleavy were in a bit of an abstract mood. “We were thinking about fantasy as in a fantasy realm, about transporting in and out of something,” Laura explained on a recent zoom. “We loved the idea of having optical illusions, the idea of not knowing where something starts … Read more
Nicole, itâs so interesting that you speak about two New Yorks, because my thesis is that fashion week was a reflection of the city as it is today, where the dissonance between its air-brushed mythology and the gritty reality of the streets is as loud as a jackhammer, and as pervasive as the stink of … Read more
About halfway through Jane Wade’s fall 2024 show, a model walked out carrying a snowboard. Earlier that day, meteorologists announced that a powerful winter storm would be hitting the Northeast. It snowed overnight and well into the next day. It was the most snow New York City had seen in years. Wade, who hails from … Read more
The central dichotomy of Jonathan Simkhai’s new menswear line is East Coast/West Coast, but the styling of the lookbook suggests a sort of middle ground or “Weastcoast” look, where tailoring and streetwear intermingle. Suits are worn with tanks, and tailored tweed coats are teamed with a fine merino polo and made-in-LA jeans. Much attention has … Read more
There are some people who would rather be overdressed than underdressed. Rentrayage’s Erin Beatty is not one of them. “I would always rather feel underdressed and cool,” she explained at a recent appointment. “With everything that’s going on in the world, I wasn’t feeling very frivolous, and fashion that felt frivolous felt wrong to me. … Read more
There are things you can always count on finding in a Raquel Allegra collection; chief among them prints painted by the designer’s own hand. So it made sense that the opening look included a cropped cotton poplin button down shirt covered in paint smears and smudges. “Painters always look so cool, they come in their … Read more
First, the elephant in the room. Lily Miesmer, who co-funded Interior alongside Jack Miner in 2020, has departed the label. She will continue as a silent partner, with Miner running the ship. This fall 2024 lineup was his first doing so solo: “When you have a partner or someone that you’re very intimate with for … Read more
