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
For the last few years Lafayette 148 has been involved in supporting the restoration of an early 18th-century oil painting, Virgin in Prayer, by the Venetian painter Giulia Lama, through the Save Venice foundation. The painting became the inspiration for the resort collection, although in typical fashion for creative director Emily Smith and her team, … Read more
For Emilia Wickstead, designing a collection always starts with the woman; the muse. And for pre-fall, her roving eye turned to Bridget Riley, the British Op art pioneer known for her dazzling canvases lavished with intricate geometric patterns. The point of inspiration was woven through the collection first in a very literal sense—a standout dress … Read more
Francisco Cancino didn’t hold a runway show this season. Instead, he presented his new collection in his workshop located in the historic Edificio Humboldt in the center of Mexico City, which dates back to 1922, and is a few blocks from other equally emblematic spaces that have nourished the Mexican imagination for decades. All these … Read more
“I’m often associated with dresses,” Erdem Moralioglu began, as he was leafing through his resort collection in his London office. “But interestingly, in my store in South Audley Street, it’s also tailoring that people are buying.” While marrying up both sides of his repertoire this season, he spent many hours at the London Library, his … 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
“We’re trying to put some new life into some of the classics of Goya,” Stine Goya said of her 2025 resort collection. One of those beloved standbys is a padded bomber with a watercolor floral print (developed in-house) that features beaded stamens. The same textile is used for a sleeveless A-line shift here that can … Read more
The ebb and flow of time, measured by the cycles of the sun and moon, and the seasons, were Ditte Reffstrup’s preoccupations for resort. Accordingly, she tapped Norwegian photographer Ola Rindal to shoot the lookbook, with varicolored roaming spots of light marking the pace. Fashionwise, the collection remained within the brand’s comfort zone, with desirable … Read more
In the middle of Verner’s resort show, it hit me that the clothes were exactly what people think of when they think of Australian Fashion Week—resort! beaches! surfers!—except done to the nth cool degree. It was by design. “Above all [resort] was about extending certain techniques like the roping and the tying and using Australia’s … Read more
A deep immersion in the “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion” exhibition at the Costume Institute has this editor tracing its threads to venues far from Fifth Avenue, such as Baum und Pferdgarten’s 2025 resort collection, which blooms with black roses, just like a section of the new Met show. Rikke Baumgarten and Helle Hestehave are celebrating … Read more
