Since joining Hérve Léger as creative director, Michelle Ochs has remained steady in her aim: How do you take a brand with such a singular history and continue to evolve, while not alienating your core customer? “It’s a woman who’s loved the brand and followed it,” Ochs said during a showroom appointment. “They already have … Read more
On Monday night, the first of July, Marc Jacobs followed up his spring 2024 “Wonder” collection with a fall one filled with joy. Or “Joy, Period.” as the show notes read. Jacobs’ collection continued to embrace spring’s paper doll qualities with spectacular, exaggerated shapes and playful femininity, and warped them into fantastical, cartoonish wonders with … Read more
“Sometimes, a show is a reaction to the one that precedes it,” mused Victor Horsting backstage ahead of the fall Viktor & Rolf fall couture show. After a spring lineup that was “very black, very conceptual, almost an illustration of an idea,” he and creative partner Rolf Snoeren were in the mood for something fresh, … Read more
“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
