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How do you bring L.A. to Paris Fashion Week? “Literally just drop a pin,” says strategist and consultant Stephanie Ramos. We’re at the Courtside X Akila picnic at Champ de Mars, an annual tradition that made it out of a group chat Ramos had started five years ago. Walking up to the park under the…
Marine Serre’s collection was an ode to the old, worn-out and discarded. The designer loves giving used fabrics and materials a new life and regularly buys old denim – by the ton – tears it apart and pieces it back together for her collections. “There’s enough material out there to survive for years,” said the…
Claudia Chisholm was representing the luggage company she inherited from her father at a 2008 hunting and outdoors trade show when the business took a turn she never saw coming. Customers kept strolling in, looking at the high-end briefcases and leather goods, including wallets and bags ‘with embroidered critters’ she’d expected to be a surefire…
The president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, joked on Saturday that he could send inmates from his mega-prison to France, after they were represented in a show at Paris Fashion Week that his government claims “glorifies criminality.” Mexican-American designer Willy Chavarría presented a show on Friday in Paris in which he had several tattooed men…
While many designers are opting for scaled-back and smaller runway shows this season, Emily Bode Aujla took that path in an entirely different direction, eschewing a traditional parade of models altogether. Instead, she created an intimate, mise en scène in miniature, with her collection presented as tiny knitted sweaters, tailored shirts, shorts, shoes, suits, and…
Back to school shopping is starting earlier and earlier, but we’re not going to make the case here that parents are stocking up for next fall even before classes have even let out in some districts. Our focus today is instead on brands that are in the thick of preparing for this important season, when…
Colleges are about fitting in, and so Eli Russell Linnetz found himself hunting down Sperry Top-Siders and Vineyard Vines critter shorts on eBay during his film studies at the University of South California. “Believe it or not, I joined a fraternity, and there’s so much pomp and circumstance around what you wear, and this weird…
Normally a fashion show that lasts 30 minutes would test your patience, but not when it’s wrapped in an electrifying dance performance about the human condition that leaves you gasping, and stifling tears. So bravo to Y-3 for a pulse-pounding, life-affirming experience that was also a nifty way to showcase how its spring collection not…
At the fork in the road of his education, Louis-Gabriel Nouchi was accepted at Gobelins Paris, a renowned French school for visual arts, and at Brussels’ La Cambre Mode(s). The path he chose has been amply covered in the seven years since he launched the LGN label, but for spring, the designer gave a glimpse…
Summary Kiko Kostadinov’s SS26 collection, presented at Paris Fashion Week, chronicles a single day on a secluded, imagined island The collection emphasizes diverse fabrics like light twill, textured mesh, and kasuri cotton, all processed with specialist treatments Expect new fabric bags inspired by Bulgarian tradition, and returning ASICS tabi runners with a gradient finish Kiko…