“Diesel is denim.” So droned the AI voice that had already read and re-read the Wikipedia entry on denim before this show started. We contemplated an arresting and scary ocean of denim scraps and off-cuts that had been brought in …
The spontaneous hand-drawn beauty of Steve O Smith’s work has to be seen to be believed. Over London Fashion Week, passersby at Dover Street Market stopped dead to marvel at the inside-and-out perfectionism of a few pieces of his spring …
Huishan Zhang fully immersed himself in the work of Wong Kar Wai as he designed his spring 2025 collection. Specifically The Hand—a short film from the director’s anthology, Eros—which details the relationship of a young tailor and his client. References …
There is no physical resemblance between Sharon Wauchob and Tinkerbell, but the designer’s hands seem to have the power of pixie dust, which allows anything they touch to fly. There’s no better way to describe Wauchob’s chiffons than that they …
Earlier this year, a trend dubbed the “office siren” or “corpcore” reached vitality on TikTok, with young people cosplaying as sexed-up office workers (many of them Gen Z-ers who had never set foot in an office) in a fetishization of …
This season in New York, many designers have been feeling unusually glum. Backstage, many of the week’s top talents have spoken candidly of looking to fashion for joy and upliftment—especially at a time when tensions are at a high with …
Aaron Potts returned to the New York Men’s Day showcase this morning after a season away. “Men’s Day to me is like a family reunion,” he said. “We all come here to get together and do our thing, and we …
One of the cornerstones of Phipps is character work. Less so in the theater kid tradition of “yes, and?”-ing one’s way through life, and more so in the Cindy Sherman-esque school of studying and embodying an individual. Designer Spencer Phipps …
Tonight sees the premiere of Gianni Amelio’s Battleground in Venice, a First World War drama described as “an unrelentingly bleak viewing experience” about “the sheer volume of human suffering” during large-scale combat. “There’s a chance,” reads the Screen Daily review, “that …
Alexander Wang has opened a new store at the Fontainebleau in Las Vegas. At an appointment at his showroom in the South Street Seaport (also new), he reported that the store reached its monthly goal on the first day of …
