The big news this season from Eli Russell Linnetz, of the brand ERL, was his launch of womenswear. The collection came together around a true (if far-fetched) story of a surprise trip he took to visit cousins on Martha’s Vineyard, only to discover they had moved away, leading to a very VC Andrews weekend with the WASPy family...
For part one of a continuous design story that Jenny Packham has coined ‘Disco Couture,’ the designer found her muses in film’s most quietly powerful female characters: an icy-cool Michelle Pfeiffer in Scarface, the sleek and erotic Sharon Stone in Basic Instinct, femme fatale Ellen Barkin in the neo-noir Sea of Love. Women, to Packham, who know how...
Europe’s heatpocalypse, which has people shedding, rather than donning clothes, works in favor of Lazoschmidl’s revealing spring collection, focused on the brand’s best-selling category, undies (Y-fronts and Speedos). Even if the temperatures had been more mild, Josef Lazo and Andreas Schmidl approached this season with a bit of a “You wanna piece of me?” attitude. “We were like,...
The past year has come with challenges for Charles Jeffrey. His Loverboy brand was caught up in the turmoil surrounding the sale of the Italian fashion incubator Tomorrow Ltd., which bought a stake in Jeffrey’s business back in 2021. Finally, though, it seems the dust has settled—and Jeffrey was quick to point out that publishing a lookbook and...
Designer Julian Louie doesn’t really think in terms of seasons, per se, but as a constant process of refining. “The foundations are there, it’s just a matter of chipping away at it,” he says of his brand, Aubero. He likens it to the way Michelangelo would take a chisel to a block of marble to slowly, bit by...
After the patchwork embroidered Niki dress from Gabriela Hearst’s spring 2025 collection made its cameo in The Devil Wears Prada 2, there was a run on them on her e-commerce site. Now, the $7,900 number—Hearst never puts her clothes and accessories on sale—is available only by pre-order. Some 40 artisans work on each one, according to the sales...
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