The Devil Wears Prada 2 is shaping up to be the fashion event of the year, judging by all these very visible street scenes they’ve been filming all over Manhattan. Paparazzi have been hard at work capturing every inch of the public facing sets from the sequel to the fashion industry’s favorite movie. Decades after…
12 Nicole Miller’s first fashion show in New York was in 1990 and turned her into a household name. With ’90s nostalgia at fever pitch, we checked in with the legendary designer and Sag Harbor resident about the career-changing decade, what it was like working with the supermodels, and the look she hopes will stay…
Founded in Milan in 2015 by social entrepreneur Michelle Ngonmo, the Afro Fashion Association (AFA) works to elevate creatives of colour while addressing the racial inequalities prevalent throughout the Italian fashion industry. Observing the systemic blockades BIPOC designers face across Europe, Ngonmo established AFA as a platform to nurture talent and amplify underrepresented voices. Central…
Photo-Illustration: by The Cut; Photo: Shutterstock Martha Nolan-O’Slatarra, a 33-year-old New York designer, was found dead on a boat in Montauk early on Tuesday morning, according to a report from the Suffolk County Police Department. Around midnight, East Hampton Town Police Department officers responded to a 911 call that reported a woman unconscious aboard a…
The global fashion industry is at a crossroads. Rollbacks in diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), coupled with a shift away from climate-conscious production methods, mean that emerging, sustainability-focused BIPOC designers face a growing number of challenges when breaking into the fashion scene. Afro Fashion Association (AFA) is a not-for-profit platform founded in 2015 by social…
Ahead of last year’s September runway-show season, practically everyone in the fashion industry agreed that change was overdue. Across the board, slowed-down spending was discouraging bold ideas. Critics and consumers were bored. So were designers themselves—even the highest-profile creative directors were fantasizing about a shake-up. What transpired was more of an earthquake. Over the next…
Head to the website for the LVMH Prize and you’ll be confronted with the headshots of this year’s finalists: nine stoic faces, static in their white squares, plus one knitted in yarn. The doll in question sits on the shoulder of 33-year-old designer Danial Aitouganov, whose own phlegmatic demeanor adds to the cheekiness of his…
PARIS — With designer debuts at Celine and Maison Margiela, this was a much-anticipated couture week in Paris. Both Michael Rider’s return to Celine and Glenn Martens’ first couture show, which Margiela calls Artisanal, underscored that there is latent creative energy in fashion that is ready to be released if we give designers the space…
MILAN — The menswear season in Milan opened with a cauchemar: an official communication saying Mr Armani was “recovering” at home after a brief hospital stay, and would not be present at either his Giorgio or Emporio shows, something that has never happened in the fifty years since Italy’s fashion king launched his business. The…
This is an edition of the newsletter Show Notes, in which Samuel Hine reports from the front row of the fashion world. Sign up here to get it free. On Friday afternoon in Milan, Our Legacy co-founders Christopher Nying and Jockum Hallin were taking a walk down memory lane. “Ah, here’s the hate mail,” said…