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
Gauchere Fall 2025 Ready-to-Wear Collection
When the world goes disconcertingly haywire, Marie-Christine Statz finds solace in color and working on materiality and light. “We need to find pleasure in what we’re doing every day, in the concrete world of creating clothes, but also by looking at things differently,” the designer said during a visit to
Caroline Hu Fall 2025 Ready-to-Wear Collection
Even without explanation, it was obvious that Caroline Hu was mining more from her dream theme that emerged last season. From the padded (handmade) flower cutouts floating across tulle that resembled bed quilting, to the enlarged volumes that looked like duvets skillfully transformed into gowns, her succinct lineup of 17
Acne Studios Fall 2025 Ready-to-Wear Collection
“There’s definitely, definitely, definitely no logic to human behavior. But yet so, yet so irresistible.” That line from Björk’s “Human Behavior” didn’t quite apply to this Acne Studios collection by Jonny Johansson—because the logic behind the collection was shaped by her song. Johansson had rewatched its fairytale video, complete with
