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
Saint Laurent, Prada & More Brands are De-Emphasizing the Waist for Fall 2025
Earlier this month, the U.K.-based fast-fashion brand PrettyLittleThing announced a rebrand. Gone are the days of skintight polyester bodysuits, slinky cutout dresses, and barely there bralettes. One of the greatest purveyors of BBL-based fashion made one message very clear with its pivot: the age of the hourglass is over. But
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,
At Chanel Fall 2025, Everything Comes Coco-fied
Chanel let the light in for fall 2025. As the fashion world eagerly awaits the arrival of the new creative director, Matthieu Blazy, next month, the in-house Creation Studio sent out a lovely collection this morning which reminded us that the maison is equally adept at founder Gabrielle Chanel’s iconic
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
Loewe Fall 2025 Brings the Jonathan Anderson Era Full Circle
The hottest topic of conversation in Paris this week: where will all of these designers go next? Undoubtedly the one on most everyone’s minds (and lips) has been Jonathan Anderson of Loewe. Will he or won’t he head to Dior after transforming Loewe into one of the most vied-for brands
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
