Spring 2023 Ready-to-Wear

Rachel Antonoff wants you to let your body do the talking. “We’ve found our sweet spot these days is a comfortable silhouette in a real conversation print,” she explained. “A thing I love about conversation prints is the conversation…

Camille Miceli has a knack for an entertaining mise en scène, and for emulsifying (her words) the experience with a good deal of highly enjoyable fun. For her first Pucci fashion show, she invited guests to Florence, the label’s cradle,…

Over a recent breakfast Rachel Comey was reminiscing about the Chelsea flea market. In the 1990s, before zoning laws made way for luxury high rises on Sixth Avenue, antique dealers and junk collectors turned the empty lots from 24th to 27th…

The most dramatic piece in Mara Hofmann’s spring collection was a melon-sleeved dress with meandering, calligraphic passementerie that traced the female body (emphasizing the breasts particularly) with a Matisse-like hand. Hoffman is one of…

Picture this: a few friends take a “road trip” but instead of traveling via car they take horses and pick up psychedelic mushrooms along the way, turning everything around them into a kaleidoscope of colors. That was what Jasmin Hekmat saw…

The cult of personality... It delivers dramas and looks, and it has done through the ages. Hollywood has a lot to do with it, of course, and the recent Elvis and Marilyn Monroe movies seem to have sparked a desire for throwback glamour.…

We were back in the Park Avenue Armory with Marc Jacobs for the first time in three years, and what a difference between tonight’s collection and his Karole Armitage-choreographed show of February 2020. Where that one was kinetic, a…

Gilda Ambrosio and Giorgia Tordini are in the mood for love for spring. Just do not imagine anything romantic or overtly sentimental. The Attico designers do not wear their hearts on their sleeves—partly because sleeves are often absent…

Florals? For spring? Turns out, they can be groundbreaking—at least, that’s what Apiece Apart designers Laura Cramer and Starr Hout felt this season. The duo’s main inspiration revolved around finding beauty in wildflowers; Hout had…

Édouard Manet was one of the first 19th century artists to center his work in modern life. Created between 1862 and 1863, his The Luncheon on the Grass depicts a female nude sitting next to two fully clothed dandies in a rural setting. In…