Beauty

Lizzie Owens is a designer who really cares about her customers. One of her 6397’s main goals between the design and sales teams is to respect the customers, which means prices haven’t really changed since the early days. The Milton funnel neck winter coat will be priced under $1,200. “It’s double breasted and a little bit more fitted...

Lafayette 148 began 30 years ago with a simple array of suiting basics, among them a white button-up shirt. Now, after spending the last year celebrating its anniversary, designer Emily Smith took the fall collection back to the label’s roots. She spent time with the archives, thinking about both the construction of a garment and the factory floor...

Rachel Scott was named the creative director of Proenza Schouler days before the brand’s New York fashion week presentation last September. Today’s show was her real opening salvo, though, the first collection she worked on start-to-finish having replaced brand founders Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez, who decamped for Paris and the opportunity to helm Loewe. An impressive cohort...

Lela Rose, a mother of two, is increasingly thinking about the multi-generational appeal of her designs. With a well-established clientele of gala-goers and best-dressed wedding guests who have closets full of her floral gowns and signature Parker skirts, figuring out ways to entice their daughters—and granddaughters—is making Rose tick.Case in point: at the designer’s Midtown Manhattan showroom, her...

Before Neil Grotzinger settled on a direction for their new fall collection, the New York designer was thrifting—as they often do—and stumbled upon a skeleton shirt that was once part of a Halloween costume. Not very high-fashion, you might think—and yet the spooky piece, particularly the exposed bones, ignited an intriguing idea. “I started thinking about the concept...

Before Neil Grotzinger settled on a direction for their new fall collection, the New York designer was thrifting—as they often do—and stumbled upon a skeleton shirt that was once part of a Halloween costume. Not very high-fashion, you might think—and yet the spooky piece, particularly the exposed bones, ignited an intriguing idea. “I started thinking about the concept...

This New York fashion week, editors and street style stars are grappling with the challenge of looking chic in extremely cold conditions. It’s unlikely they’ll be looking to Cult Gaia for help. Every season, designer Jasmin Larian Hekmat leans into vacation dressing for her brand, offering summery staples year-round that are begging for a tropical getaway. (Sounds nice...

Sea is currently blowing up in China. Having opened a store there last year, the brand is already scouting for a second location. What Monica Paolini and Sean Monahan are exporting is an aesthetic that mixes (Eastern European) rustic motifs with prep, and New York edge with a bit of sportiness—at moderate prices.While this fall collection participated in...

“Elevated and edgy” is always the mission over at R13 headquarters, where designer Chris Leba lives and breathes that motto. A lot of items in R13’s collections stay the same season to season, from the plaid shirting to the cool leather jackets. But for every collection Leba tries his hand at something new that will eventually grow to...

In visiting Sanssouci, the summer palace of Frederick the Great, Johnson Hartig not only crossed an item off his bucket list, he also found general inspiration for his fall collection. I say general because while you can clearly see how the designer interpreted the sun symbols on the pavilions in Potsdam into an elaborate decoration on the back...