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...
Johara House and Claire Yau’s courtship began with a classic New York City love story. After the two connected on Hinge in early 2022, they decided to go on their first date to see West Side Story in the West End of London. “I was dying to see it,” remembers Johara, who works as a fashion stylist. “We...
With two weeks to go until his first haute couture show for Jean Paul Gaultier, Duran Lantink took a Zoom break to discuss this pre-collection. It’s another first for the Dutch designer who shot to fashion fame with his avant-garde overstuffed silhouettes and has sent out a pair of ready-to-wear collections at JPG as irreverent and iconoclastic as...
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