Following weeks of speculation, on Friday morning Anthony Vaccarello said that he would be leaving Saint Laurent after 10 years as its creative director. The announcement followed a blockbuster show during Paris Fashion Week that saw Vaccarello reinterpret the work of Yves Saint Laurent with his own signature panache. InContinue Reading
Paris is a city for grown ups. Paris Fashion Week, even more so. The shows deemed the best are often those by the headliners: Dior, Chanel, Saint Laurent, et al. But this season that premise was turned on its head from the very first evening last Monday. The name onContinue Reading
“Milan is a city that doesn’t want you to know what it is,” said the writer Charlie Porter. He made this assessment as the Prada show, which kicked off Milan Fashion Week on Tuesday, was about to start. And he’s right: like many big cities, Milan is packed with contradictions.Continue Reading
London has given fashion some of its most legendary and acclaimed designers, among them Vivienne Westwood, John Galliano, and Lee Alexander McQueen. Yet each member of this trinity eventually decamped to Paris after planting their roots in the United Kingdom. For many designers across the globe, Paris, the birthplace ofContinue Reading
“Is Conner Ives also a ponzi scheme?” read an X post following the London-based designer’s debut show at New York Fashion Week on Saturday afternoon. Ives broke through as the name behind the viral Protect the Dolls T-shirts from last year, which, worn by Addison Rae, Pedro Pascal, and TildaContinue Reading
Earlier this year, Ralph Lauren released a monograph of his runway collections, part of the popular Catwalk series that has given the same treatment to designers like Vivienne Westwood and Miuccia Prada. It was an astute move given that the all-American sartorial icon is celebrating the 60th anniversary of hisContinue Reading
Isak Andic, the founder of Spanish fashion giant Mango, was hiking in Montserrat, a touristy hot-spot mountain range in Catalonia, Spain, when he fell off a 300-foot cliff to his death in December 2024. On the hike, Andic was only accompanied by his son, Jonathan Andic, with whom he allegedlyContinue Reading
The Met Gala has done something remarkable: it’s made a Monday something to look forward to. On May 4th, yes, the first Monday in May, the Metropolitan Museum of Art will host the 2026 Met Gala, which marks the opening of its spring blockbuster exhibition. This year’s “Costume Art” exhibitionContinue Reading
Does it matter that Blackwood’s label is primarily known for that one social justice statement? Yes, broadly, it does, because it was presumably his objective. But at the White House, not really, because we don’t know if the owner of the handbag was making a point—since she didn’t opt toContinue Reading
On March 2, as French President Emmanuel Macron delivered a speech on the country’s nuclear deterrence and acknowledging the geopolitical moment, the crowd at Paris Fashion Week, myself included, started to gather for nine days of runway shows. Two days later, at Nicolas Di Felice’s fifth anniversary show for Courrèges,Continue Reading
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