Ernest W. Baker is fast becoming a highlight on the Paris men’s schedule. Today’s sophomore show from the Porto-based label, which took place in a white-carpeted hall in Belleville, proved it. Sophisticated and cinematic, it marked Reid Baker and Inês Amorim out as a pair worth keeping a close eye...
Designer Hung La is fascinated by characters—often of the underworld variety, and always with a tinge of darkness. His brand, Lu’u Dan, is a way to, he says, inject an “Asian flavor” into the fashion scene, and he uses it as a vehicle to reframe conversations around not just streetwear...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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