For Restless Sleepers is approaching its 10th anniversary. It’s an important milestone for Francesca Ruffini’s brainchild; as an independent brand flying under the radar of trends, it has grown a rather consistent following, and she reports that its online business is in good shape. Born out of Ruffini’s own predilection for living 24/7 in countless … Read more
Jun Zhao and Yushan Li of Pronounce spent the months in between their Milan Fashion Week debut in January and their sophomore presentation this past weekend adding “costume design” to their resumes. The pair lent their whimsical hands and minds to the Chinese production of “Lady M,” a British musical based on Shakespeare’s Macbeth. Their … Read more
Rewind back to Paris Fashion Week in March when The Row radically requested that guests refrain from using their phones during the show. And how this confirmed the brand’s hold over everyone, the request respected. Whether out of residual observance or simply owing to the tedium of tapping, I arrived at The Row’s Paris headquarters … Read more
Personnel changes at Filippa K mean that the spring collection started by Liisa Kessler was completed by the in-house team with input from the new creative lead, Anna Teurnell, who will also continue to run her tiny, mighty namesake label, Teurn Studios. Both brands tend toward the minimal, but by the looks of it, at … Read more
Ten years in and Area’s Piotrek Panszczyk has his collection development down to an exact formula: a group of terrific novelty jeans, a groovy print, and crystal-embellished party-ready separates that are sexy but never basic, thanks to their interesting fabrication. And yet the results are always unexpected, due to a belief in creative experimentation that … Read more
“We’re challenging ourselves,” Catherine Holstein declared in her NoHo showroom as she walked racks lined with her new resort collection. Khaite has become a badge of cool for fashionable women in New York and beyond, the crystal-mesh Marcy flats and slant-heel Arizona boots a kind of code shared between them. But Holstein’s ambitions are bigger … Read more
Rosetta Getty has been celebrating her brand’s 10th anniversary this year, revisiting the moods and styles that defined her. She delivered a tight collection of the pieces that have kept her customers coming back for a decade, like a high femme take on a suit in a white cady fabric consisting of a sleek crew … Read more
There are two stories running through Monse’s resort collection. The first half alluded to the “vacation” aspect of resort collections. This one was inspired by Laura Kim and Fernando Garcia’s travels to a villa in Tuscany, plus “1970s horse posters, and this painting from the 1800s of a sunset in Antarctica.” They fed those images … Read more
Whether she’s a planner or a last-minute dresser, the Zuhair Murad woman comes to life at night: she has a heavy social schedule, and she knows the designer has her covered. With his resort collection, Murad dug into his arsenal and came up with lots of high shine: his stylized monogram cropped up in starburst … Read more
Earlier this month, Rachel Comey threw a party for a milestone that snuck up on her, the 10th anniversary of her Crosby Street store. Comey is a New York fashion stalwart, nimbly tweaking and adjusting—and growing—her collections, as designers who’ve enjoyed more exposure and industry fame over the years have struggled in this post-post-pandemic retail … Read more
