Fall 2021 Ready-to-Wear

Anifa Mvuemba is often described as an emerging designer for the simple reason that her trajectory hasn’t followed the industry’s conventional track. Before her first show last night, she played a short film to remind us of Hanifa’s past 10…

The Thierry Mugler retrospective at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs during Paris Fashion Week opened with a bang befitting the famous couturier. Cardi B made an appearance, and designers Riccardo Tisci, Haider Ackermann, and Christian…

There was a moment early in the pandemic when a blazer and sweatpants seemed to sum up everything: It was business on top, cozy on the bottom, and the punchline of many a “Zoom style” joke. Eighteen months and thousands of video meetings…

Kith is celebrating 10 years in business this season. Founder Ronnie Fieg is marking the anniversary with a 300-page tome in collaboration with Jim Moore called KXTH, which chronicles every project in the Kith universe, from BMW to Cap’n…

It’s been 18 months since Francesco Ragazzi’s last show in New York back in February of 2020. He’s been Zooming from Milan ever since, but despite—or perhaps because of—his label’s streetwear roots, the clothes are really best appreciated…

Like many during the pandemic, Victor Barragán did a mental health check. There was plenty of introspection and then came the talk of new-age medicine. All of these factors were brought together in the fall 2021 collection. (Barragán isn’t…

Several years ago, Mara Hoffman was known for her vibrant digital prints, the kind that made a statement but weren’t exactly “everyday” wearable. Now, she specializes in versatile but considered pieces you can wear constantly without losing…

Some things we didn’t do in the pandemic: wear 4,000 feathers head-to-toe or a stretch cashmere slip hand knit with 9,500 glass paillettes, pull on a jacket with the pneumatic sheen of a Jeff Koons sculpture, or match our shoes to our bag…

Part of designing, maybe the most crucial part, is questioning. Few do it with the vigor of Area’s Piotrek Panszczyk and Beckett Fogg. Since launching their brand in 2013, Area has done so much introspection and recalibration, it’s hard to…

“We’re certainly not dressing up,” says Bassike’s Deborah Sams over yet another Zoom call from Australia. When we started doing these quarterly Zooms in early 2020, we joked that next season’s would be our last … that was seven calls ago,…