Fall 2023 Ready-to-Wear

Marco Falcioni came up with the idea for his latest Boss collection on the way back home from the spring ’23 show in Miami, courtesy of in-flight entertainment. While kicking back en route, he watched Being John Malkovich and became…

This season’s Ports 1961 collection, designed and shot in the label’s Milan headquarters, represents a new beginning. Karl Templer in no longer creative director, even though he contributed to the styling ideas. The team has been renewed…

If the eccentric Milanese-born Marchesa Luisa Casati were alive today, “she’d probably be part of The Attico tribe.” Gilda Ambrosio and Giorgia Tordini dedicated their new collection to the aristocratic “living work of art,” as the Marchesa…

This BFA Fashion Class at Parsons didn’t have it easy, dealing with both COVID lockdowns and a strike by adjunct faculty. It forced them to combine their creative pursuits with real-life problem solving. Their roads may have been rocky, but…

On a sunny day this week, a jury-selected group of 72 members of the class of 2023 showed 87 looks at the the Future of Fashion show, sponsored by Macy’s (which will offer limited runs of selected designs.) These students came from the…

On the evidence of their graduate collections, Pratt Institute’s class of 2023 had little to no interest in two of fashion’s current preoccupations: “stealth wealth” and “naked” dressing. Subtlety was generally not on their agendas; neither…

When Tom Ford launched his women’s ready-to-wear collection in September 2010, I was not among the 100 people to get an invitation, and the FOMO was excruciating. I distinctly remember being at the show that preceded it and watching as a…

A new Peter Do look for every day of the year. That was the designer’s concept for these photos. There are 351 of them, so he’s only 15 days short. The remarkable thing is, all 351 outfits were put together with just 20-or-so different…

Last summer, after competing for the LVMH Prize in 2019 and putting on a trio of Paris runway shows (with a couple of online-only pandemic collections in between), Kenneth Ize announced he was stepping away from the show circuit. “We have…

Nina Simone’s mournful cover of Billie Holiday’s “Strange Fruit” segued into Kanye West’s furious sampling of it on “Blood On The Leaves” as a model in the palest of lime—from his baseball cap via tailored topcoat and collared hoodie down…