Pre-Fall 2023

Like many designers, Coperni’s Sébastien Meyer and Arnaud Vaillant went back to their core design roots for pre-fall. “This collection is all about the classics,” said Vaillant on a recent Zoom from the duo’s shared home in Paris. “So we…

If you’ve had a hankering for big shoulders—as in really, really, really big—you can thank Mr. Anthony Vaccarello for that. For several seasons now, and for both the women’s and men’s collections, Vaccarello’s Saint Laurent has been pumping…

Walk around the New York City streets as the weather warms up and one thing becomes abundantly clear: the quiet luxury trend that we’ve been hearing so much about (including from this website) is mostly, if not completely, a virtual…

“Stealth wealth” may be all the rage in fashion currently, but for pre-fall, Apiece Apart designers Laura Cramer and Starr Hout were feeling both bold and colorful. “It’s the first time we’ve really done daring brights,” said Hout, pointing…

It’s no secret that consumers look to Cult Gaia designer Jasmin Larian Hekmat for her beachy vacation wear, so naturally her pre-fall assortment zeroed in on getaway style once again. This year, Hekmat focused on the “harmonious fusion of…

Francesco Risso is seeking clarity and concision, “both privately and professionally,” as he said at a studio appointment. “Absorbing the beauty of chaos” while distilling it into purified Marni archetypes (he calls them “heroes”) is part…

Emilia Wickstead’s success story began with her assured balance of elegance and wearability. Those crinkle-free cloqué dresses and body-molding bouclés are surprisingly practical, actually, and brides queue up to buy her wedding gowns as…

For pre-fall, Area’s Piotrek Panszczyk was thinking about butterflies, even though he “kind of hates butterflies.” His antipathy for the little creatures was precisely why they were so appealing. “I love diving into things that I personally…

This year has showcased the best of Sarah Burton’s talents. With two triumphs in hand—the superlative dark tailoring she showed in March in Paris, and her impeccable Coronation outfits for the Princess of Wales and Princess Charlotte—now…

A few weeks ago a package arrived from Bottega Veneta. Inside was a trio of books: two dedicated to the summer 2023 collection, and a third which reproduced a scrapbook of Kate Moss images that designer Matthieu Blazy made when he was still…