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
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
Givenchy’s Fall 2025 Show, Tommy Hilfiger’s New Star!
29 Sarah Burton’s Givenchy Debut Blooms At Paris Fashion Week This morning, Sarah Burton presented her first Givenchy collection at Paris Fashion Week. After her appointment as the brand’s new creative director last September, the beloved designer’s debut has been one of the season’s most anticipated shows (equally so with
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
