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
“Last year we saw a really good sell-through with our resort collection, so I knew I wanted to do something around lights and sparkles, but finding sophisticated ways of doing it,” Aknvas designer Christian Juul Nielsen said of last year’s “after hours” tinged lineup of holiday-minded fashions. For fall, he’s also added Neiman Marcus (in … Read more
It’s been five years since New York designer Sally LaPointe moved her brand’s headquarters to the SoHo corner of Howard and Crosby Streets. Since then she’s returned to the runway (staging her spring 2024 show on the same block) and targeted the brand’s next phase of growth with the appointment of industry veteran Reese Pozgay … Read more
Over the last two years Lafayette 148 has been building its partnership with nonprofit Save Venice by sponsoring the conservation of the early 18th-century painting “Virgin in Prayer” by female artist Giulia Lama. Coming full circle with the painting set to return to the Venice church in July, the restoration became the starting point for … Read more
Had there been a fashion show in sci-fi franchise “The Matrix,” it would have looked something like Avellano’s fall lineup. Over the years the French latex specialist has made his own a severe wardrobe of dusters, form-fitting sheaths and straight-leg five-pocket jeans shapes, supplemented for fall with long and loose shirts, bodysuits and the addition … Read more
You could have heard a pin drop at Yohji Yamamoto in the silence that accompanied his opening black-clad models. Not that you did: the Japanese designer is a master tailor and there’d be nothing amiss, pins or otherwise. But that first group directed the focus toward the protruding cubes that made the impeccable classic cut … Read more
Rome is never far from Lavinia Biagiotti’s heart and the designer this season brought a bit of the Italian capital to Milan’s Piccolo Teatro by setting breezy fabric columns on the stage — a nod to the storied monuments and landmarks of Italy’s capital city. “Columns give solidity to a building, and I was thinking … Read more
