Boscobel, a historic estate overlooking the Hudson, was the setting for Sea’s spring 2025 lookbook. One reason for choosing it, said designer Monica Paolini: “It’s close to where Sean [Monahan] and I grew up.” The team showed Upstate some sartorial love by embroidering horses and lambs on a soft gray cardigan styled with a long … Read more
This season, Massimo Giorgetti opted for a presentation at MSGM’s headquarters, foregoing the traditional runway. Times of market volatility, global political turmoil, and economic uncertainty call for a more focused approach. Yet constraints can be blessing in disguise, often sparking creativity. With his trademark optimism, Giorgetti was embracing the challenges head-on. For the designer, art … Read more
Talia Byre was feeling confident this season—and so too was her woman. When the designer speaks of this person, someone she refers to a great deal, she isn’t imaginary. She exists, and she needs clothes to wear. And Byre knows what this woman wants to wear before she even knows what she wants to wear. … Read more
It has been two years since Jenny Cheng and Esther Gauntlett showed a collection during New York Fashion Week; but they had good reason for their comeback this year—it was their brand’s tenth anniversary. “We wanted to celebrate our 10 years as a New York brand but also to celebrate each other,” Cheng said a … Read more
Levi Palmer and Matthew Harding were fresh from a holiday at their spring 2025 preview. Their sense of R&R was palpable: it came in part from their hot summer break, and also from the fact that their business is doing well, despite the tumultuous retail landscape a lot of fashion brands are navigating right now. … Read more
Three seasons at London incubator Fashion East put Johanna Parv on the map, and spring marked her first solo turn, supported by NewGen. The Estonia-born designer makes clothes with a defined purpose—her customer wears them for work, play, and commutes in between—which models demonstrated as they unfurled jackets and stashed them into clever pockets on … Read more
After some soul searching in transition limbo, Blumarine has appointed a new creative director. Georgian-born designer David Koma will showcase his first collection for pre-fall; spring was crafted by the in-house team. Inspired by the fluidity of water and by Nick Knight’s dreamlike blurred images of rose blooms, the collection read as a more streamlined … Read more
Since graduating from Central Saint Martins in 2022, Charlie Constantinou has built a cultish reputation as a purveyor of gleefully expressive gorpcore.“My work is very much based around adaptability and how you can transition between different environments,” he said after today’s show, “but when you look at a lot of technical wear and outwear brands, … Read more
After some soul searching in transition limbo, Blumarine has appointed a new creative director. Georgian-born designer David Koma will showcase his first collection for pre-fall; spring was crafted by the in-house team. Inspired by the fluidity of water and by Nick Knight’s dreamlike blurred images of rose blooms, the collection read as a more streamlined … Read more
Takuya Isagawa is a traditional fashion soul with a contemporary sense of humor. The Mister It. designer is enamored with the fashion world as it existed in white-gloved ateliers of eras past (he cut his teeth on the design team at Margiela, where he worked on the main line and artisanal collections), and his Tokyo-based … Read more
