Pre-Fall 2022

“They say a smooth sea never makes a great sailor,” the designer Maggie Marilyn Hewitt tells me during our Zoom appointment. She’s referring to the ways in which she has adapted her business in the last few years — she serendipitously went…

The internet has recently become fascinated with an AI image generator called Dall-E mini. The web application takes text input and translates it into a spooky, impressionist rendering of whatever your mind can dream up. It’s a tool Area’s…

It’s been three years since a Diane Von Furstenberg collection has cycled through the Vogue Runway feed, but don’t blame the pandemic. Team DVF has undergone a thorough restructuring, although it’s still a family affair. Talita Von…

Cult Gaia has more than a few immediately recognizable, cult-favorite pieces. Perhaps you remember the wooden, crescent-shaped Ark bag that put Jasmin Larian’s label on the map some six years ago. Or now, maybe you’ve seen a few cool brides…

“I never gave up on being dressed, even when the trend was about sportswear,” says Saint Laurent’s Anthony Vaccarello of his fall women’s collection, the until-now-unseen curtain raiser to his epic Paris by way of Belgium barnstormer of a…

With the lookbook accompanying her latest collection, Emilia Wickstead is closing a chapter, of sorts. Beginning in 2020, the designer has used the pre-fall season as an opportunity to tenderly spotlight the community of creative women that…

Staten Island is an often overlooked New York City borough that seems to be brimming with unexpected treasures. Leave it to the curious eye of Mara Hoffman to discover some baroque interiors there and use them for a close-to-home getaway…

Around Christmas, Sarah Burton and her team at McQueen sent images of this released-today pre-collection to 12 women artists, along with a proposal. The artists were asked to select any and as many items in the collection as they liked to…

Vittoria Ceretti is the face of The Attico’s look book for fall; she isn’t only a close friend of Giorgia Tordini and Gilda Ambrosio, she also embodies their idea of femininity. “Beyond the sophisticated persona we see photographed in…

At Bode, Emily Adams Bode Aujla’s collections have always been rooted in the persona. The lived histories of friends, family members, and even places all hold keys that unlock the fantastical trove of embroideries, embellishments, prints,…