“Raffia is Africa’s sequins,” quipped Imane Ayissi backstage as models shimmied by in opulently fringed designs from his fall couture collection. As a material present at all-important life events as well as artworks across the continent, the collection epitomized his desire to put Africa’s crafts, know-how and couture chops on the global map. The first … Read more
Over the past few months, the cultural hype of director Luca Guadagnino’s “Challengers” pushed tennis core to the forefront of summer trends. But the Zendaya, Mike Faist and Josh O’Connor-led movie isn’t the only one of the director’s films that’s influencing fashion. For the resort season, Safiyaa designer Daniela Karnuts was inspired by Guadagnino’s 2014 … Read more
On Wednesday afternoon, Colombian designer Johanna Ortiz officially opened the doors to her first New York flagship at 799 Madison Avenue on the Upper East Side. The tropical retail oasis — a 3,422-square-foot, four-story building that now holds the brand’s New York headquarters, a logistics and stock room, and two retail floors with the designer’s … Read more
“I wanted something softer, more simple, immediate, instinctual but also for foundations of what we’ve been doing,” Phillip Lim said of his resort collection. Another key word that ran throughout the lineup was, “easy.” The assortment’s blend of the brand’s signature New York-y feminine polish and joy-meets-utilitarian edge also was a nod to his upcoming … Read more
Sarah Staudinger was sitting in a lush greenhouse in Los Angeles for the Zoom review of her resort collection. The backdrop was actually a 1920s greenhouse, connected to her home, that she’s spent the last year restoring and converting into her personal ceramics studio. “I’ve been working out of here over the last six months … Read more
Alejandra Alonso Rojas’ collections tend to start with inspirations from beachy destinations, but this season, the Spanish designer was feeling homesick for the city she was born in: Madrid. “I was having a lot of memories from there. For some reason I had the sky in my head, so the whole collection actually started about … Read more
For the resort season, Norma Kamali approached her collections with a smart, value-driven, easy-to-layer ethos. “Fall was kind of more refined and quieter, but after fall, people are going to actually maybe even want animal print,” she said of the collection that displayed a wide array of holiday and takeaway wardrobing for the wide-reaching demographics … Read more
Ulla Johnson often photographs her pre-season collection look books in far-flung destinations, but for resort, she brought it closer to home. “The collection is always very personal for me, but this season, in some ways more than ever as we ended up shooting kind of in my backyard in Montauk,” she said during a preview, … Read more
Last season, Tibi founder and creative director Amy Smilovic utilized sporty details within garments to up their functionality. For resort, Smilovic and her senior vice president of design, Traci Bui-Amar, pushed the concept further. During a preview, Smilovic said their inspiration board included, “pictures we loved, things we loved and bringing it all together.” One … Read more
For resort 2025, Tory Burch was thinking about the joy of dressing. Not that organized, uniform type of dress but rather the spontaneity of throwing together a look, resulting in “unplanned cool and unfussy. Style that wasn’t really thought out and comes together in a more eclectic and little more relaxed way as well,” Burch … Read more
