Yueqi Qi Tokyo Fall 2025 Collection
Tokyo Fashion Week officially starts next week. Yueqi Qi’s show came early, and was held off-schedule night at the vast Yodobashi Church in a gritty area of Shinjuku. Inspired by cats, it provided a fun amuse bouche for the week ahead. “This collection we tried to explore the idea of
A.W.A.K.E. Mode Fall 2025 Ready-to-Wear Collection
Running a fashion studio means existing on another time zone, somewhere adjacent to the rest of the world. Worn out by the headlines, the London-based designer Natalia Alaverdian—Ukranian and Armenian by heritage, Muscovite by birth—called it her sanctuary, a place to delve into the alt world of cinema. This season,
Magda Butrym Fall 2025 Ready-to-Wear Collection
The rose is popping up all over for next season, but for Magda Butrym the flower and its symbolism are familiar territory, a visual cue for a brand founded, just over a decade ago, with the mission of redefining romanticism in fashion. The Polish-born designer was quickly recognized for her
Véronique Leroy Fall 2025 Ready-to-Wear Collection
Welcome back to the runway, Véronique Leroy! Her last show predated Covid to sometime around 2018; she’s continued designing since then, just out of the spotlight. But on the final day of Paris Fashion Week, her official 3:30 pm slot drew a wide swath of insiders who would have been
Saint Laurent Fall 2025 Ready-to-Wear Collection
A few days ago, Anthony Vaccarello posted to his Instagram account a video snippet of the model Amalia Vairelli. She is one of those utterly beautiful YSL women of yore, the kind who ruled Monsieur Saint Laurent’s runways in the 1990s, when the legendary past of the designer dwarfed everything,
Karoline Vitto Fall 2025 Ready-to-Wear Collection
Karoline Vitto is building her business. “I don’t even shy away from the word commercial because ultimately [the clothes] need to be worn and need to be wearable,” the designer said at a preview. This continued a thread of conversation that came up a lot this season, especially among independent
Knwls Fall 2025 Ready-to-Wear Collection
London Fashion Week this season was marked by some notable absences, as a number of emerging brands in particular opted to forgo a runway show, for reasons both financial and logistical. Meanwhile, Knwls’s Charlotte Knowles and Alexandre Arsenault are riding high: they’ve just started a mysterious new design director job
Atlein Fall 2025 Ready-to-Wear Collection
Somehow, in getting to the Atlein show, I took a wrong turn. Designer Antonin Tron has been showing at the same venue, a cavernous room under the Bambini restaurant at the Palais de Tokyo, for seasons now. But when someone asked me if I was going to the show I
Hermès Fall 2025 Ready-to-Wear Collection
“It’s really about being assertive. It’s about strength. About being sexy and sophisticated—and just owning it.” It was just brilliant to hear Nadège Vanhée make this statement on, as it happens, International Women’s Day. And even more so to see the dark, lean-line collection she sent out to walk the
Matières Fécales Fall 2025 Ready-to-Wear Collection
Matières Fécales is not just further proof that anything can sound chic in French. It is also Paris fashion’s Next Big Little Thing. The Little is necessary because founding couple Hannah Rose Dalton and Steven Raj Bhaskaran, who first met at pattern-cutting school in Montreal a decade ago, have shaped
