Resort 2023

Nicolas Di Felice found his resort inspiration in an obscure 1970 movie. According to its IMDB description, A Swedish Love Story follows two teenagers who fall in love in spite of the disapproval of the cynical adults around them. In her…

Bring it on, 2023. OK, I say that, but let’s put a few conditions on that statement, fashion-wise at least. Bring it on by all means, but maybe without the recent penchant for brutal trends, microtrends, or trends with absolutely any prefix…

Fashion today is influenced not only by ’90s nostalgia but, as the docuseries Kingdom of Dreams reminds us, by corporate structures put in place at the end of that decade. In 1997, for example, Marc Jacobs was tapped to develop a…

If last season the Diane von Furstenberg team looked to the archives, this season, they had their eyes set to the present day and the future. A new range of surrealist prints joins the roster of DVF stalwarts like vintage florals and…

Piotrek Panszczyk and his team began thinking about Area’s resort collection from a very literal place—the word “resort” itself. “If you look through history at people like Yves Saint Laurent, Ungaro, Jean Paul Gaultier, there’s always this…

Arnaud Vaillant and Sébastien Meyer’s six minute application of a spray-on dress on Bella Hadid in a thong proved the coup de théâtre of Paris Fashion Week. In the 48 hours after that show, Launchmetrics calculated, the moment generated…

Given the ballet studio setting of Emilia Wickstead’s latest lookbook, the first question that arises is whether Wickstead is a dancer herself. “I did jazz and ballet as a kid, but I only ever won an award for the most improved dancer,” she…

In keeping with his increasingly radical practice, with its implicit critique of today’s fashion system, Francesco Risso is taking the concept of collaboration to the next level at Marni. He’s doing so not just by testing the perimeter…

“The beauty of Egypt is its maximalism and its minimalism,” said Olivier Rousteing. The French designer translated that starting point with great verve in a collection that was packed with overt, hyper-representative references to his…

If there’s one thing Sarah Burton has mastered, it’s how to take a very English sense of romance—a full-skirted gown, a floral motif, lavish embroidery—and lend it a perfectly judged (and, come to think of it, equally English) dose of edge.…