Pre-Fall 2023

Ibrahim Kamara is beginning to deliver more of himself as he settles into his role as art and image director at Off-White. Last August he revisited Sierra Leone, the nation of his birth, which he left as an infant due to civil war. “A lot…

For pre-fall, Svitllana Bevza was thinking about building a wardrobe that can last a lifetime. “In this collection, there is a lot of anthology of Bevza, and of me, because I was thinking about what I would wear, how I could combine these…

Anna October’s life and outlook—personally and professionally—are an object lesson in resilience. To wit, the pre-fall collection was produced in Kyiv, amid missiles and electricity shortages and occasionally sheltering in the metro system.…

Apart from one great pandemic-eve show that blended pre-fall and men’s mainline, Undercover pre-collections tend to remain relatively undercover. This season however Jun Takahashi delivered two servings of pre-, each differently gendered…

Christian Cowan may be largely associated with dressing New York’s downtown party girls—but for pre-fall, the designer had a different clientele in mind: Old Hollywood starlets. “I’ve always looked to the club scene for inspiration—and that…

There’s nothing glamorous or romantic about late July in New York City. It’s hot, it smells like garbage, and you can’t step outside for two seconds without whatever you’re wearing becoming drenched in sweat. Interior’s Lily Miesmer and…

The ’90s are back in force these days, which presents ample occasion for Isabel Marant to dip into some of her favorite signatures. For pre-fall, she gave them a little aughties twist, but it’s the mix that makes her such a Parisian icon:…

After a few years under license, Vivetta is independent again. “It has been an opportunity to make some new research and, as always, I started from fabrics,” said designer Vivetta Ponti. A light wool in particular served to ignite her…

After taking trips and finding inspiration in far flung locales like Japan, Jamaica, and Mexico, The Elder Statesman team looked to its own backyard for the spring 2023 collection. “We really wanted to tap into our core values,” Bailey…

About 20 years ago, two icons of French cinema, Isabelle Huppert and Catherine Frot, appeared in a debut feature film by director Alexandra Leclère called “Les Soeurs Fachées” (it was distributed as “Me and My Sister” in English). That…