Joseph Altuzarra described spring 2025 as an evolution of his 15th anniversary fall collection, in which he recalibrated how he thinks about clothes. Less thematic, more of “what the, quote unquote, wardrobe is,” he said. Spring was designed in the same vein to emulate the idea of walking into someone’s closet filled with a mix … Read more
After several seasons in Milan, Shanghai-based designer Shuting Qiu is taking her off-schedule Paris debut as an opportunity to switch things up. Pulling back on the tailoring, she reached for a more feminine aesthetic, playing with dresses and flashes of skin. The season’s color palette set brights on a collision course with each other. Having … Read more
Once you start to notice a shape, you pick up its presence everywhere. A 1978 book titled “Nihon no Katachi,” or “The Shapes in Japan” in English, set designer Maiko Kurogouchi on a path to identify the ones that occur in hers. Dovetailing with her experiments with ceramics in seasons past, she noticed the similarity … Read more
For spring, Maria McManus was directly inspired by the Björk quote, “I feel the 21st century is another new age. Not only can we collaborate again with nature, but we have to. It’s an emergency.” As a result, she continued to expand on her sustainable practices, working with new natural materials such as Cradle to … Read more
Throughout almost every collection of her career, Marina Moscone has opened her look books and shows with tailoring. But for spring, she went in a softer direction. “There’s much more of maybe a softness, a prettiness, to things, a little bit of a flowiness. I think that softness was probably always there, it just needed … Read more
Christian Juul Nielsen went straightforward for his latest offering: Nordic Midsummer Camp. Similar to camp in the U.S., Scandinavian kids go away to have fun and frolic during the warmest months. He used the idea to break his collection into four different sections: urban scout, monochromatic, flower fields and radiant dew. The scout section: “So these are … Read more
Lafayette 148’s creative director Emily Smith is now three seasons, or chapters, into this year’s umbrella theme of craftsmanship and finding similarities to other art mediums. For spring, which represents new beginnings, she was drawn to the idea of life, or figure, drawing with charcoal. “There was a drawing studio down in SoHo by our … Read more
Can lightning be caught in a bottle twice? At Monse, it just might. On Saturday evening, Laura Kim and Fernando Garcia’s spring runway opened with a deconstructed khaki vest. Not just any vest, but a sleeveless version of their resort 2025 Criss Cross jacket Michelle Obama wore on the second day of the Democratic National … Read more
Stacey Bendet has proven time and again her skill for world-building and spring 2025 was no exception. Guests to her Meatpacking District presentation Saturday were invited to check into “Hotel Imagination,” where the Alice + Olivia designer’s own imagination went wild with a series of rooms and corridors decorated to match her formal-skewed collection rich … Read more
“Area is always about looking to the past, but informing the future with it,” said Piotrek Panszczyk of the brand’s 10-year milestone and see now, buy now fall runway show. Like spring’s googly-eyed lineup, fall was about the idea of introspection. Here, Panszczyk moved down the body and focused hard-core on hands, quite literally, to … Read more
