La Cambre in Brussels is surely the closest thing to utopia on Earth for fashion students. Funded by the Belgian government, it’s almost free, and even non-EU students pay just 4,174 euros annually (a comparison to sicken US and UK students struggling under tens of thousands of in fees.) It’s not the inexpensiveness which makes…
Consistency? Cute in concept. But The Attico’s designers see it differently: as a velvet trap. Gilda Ambrosio and Giorgia Tordini prioritize evolution over expectation, freedom over formula. Change your mind, your mood, your look. Be whoever you want. No guilt—just reinvention, on your own terms. “We don’t believe in a one-note women, and we design…
Looking through the clothes in the Diane Von Furstenberg resort collection, one word kept coming to mind: ease. Dresses and tops are made to simply pull on over the head; pants and skirts have elastic waists—zipper closures are few and far between. “What I think is really important about DVF is how it made women…
In contrast, Vivian Lin, who works under the name Bibi, embraced the darkness, and horror, as a means of path to catharsis. “I want to humanize the unknown. I invite the audience to consider destruction as a form of creation,” is how she put it. Her voluminous designs, which looked like exoskeletons adorned with the…
Two formats were used to present the work of Pratt’s graduating class this year. Thirty-three students participated in an exhibition, while another 30 sent their work down the runway. Before that happened, Nicholas Daley, a British menswear designer marking his first decade in business, was presented with the school’s Visionary Award by GQ’s Will Welch….
The Savannah College of Art & Design has a honeybee as its school mascot. It’s a peculiar fun-fact about the university, one with a warm, even if a little saccharine, backstory. The gist of it is that bees shouldn’t be able to fly given their size and wingspan, yet they do. The parallel here is…
Sixty-seven members of the Fashion Institute of Technology’s graduating class presented 82 looks in five categories—sportswear, children’s wear, knitwear, intimate apparel, and special occasion wear—at the Future of Fashion show. The event was sponsored by Macy’s, which will also put into production the designs of a number of students they selected. Over the past few…
It’s no surprise that Barbara Tfank considers herself to be immersed in the film industry—she’s a designer who lives in Los Angeles. Lately, Tfank has been watching Netflix’s remake of The Leopard, which takes place in 19th century Sicily (she recommends you watch Visconti’s 1963 film before delving into the limited series). Looking at her…
Rabih Kayrouz subscribes to the philosophy that fashion isn’t about seasons—it’s a continuum, a quiet evolution of silhouettes that speak to emotion and elegance. “I find it hard to talk each season about a theme or a genre,” the designer observed. “Sometimes I think I’m doing the same thing, but it’s actually never the same…
You can’t read a book by its cover, nor a collection by its title. Such is the case with Andrea Mary Marshall’s offering for fall 2025. She named it Elizabeth, but it’s all the stronger for being a less than literal homage to the famous English monarch. As such, it marked a step forward from…