Style Points is a column about how fashion intersects with the wider world. Ever since fashion’s online audience grew to outstrip its offline one, designers have been crafting collections with our feeds in mind. Virality and good old-fashioned shock value became ways to claw into our consciousness, cutting through the morass of SEO results and…
The Théâtre de Châtelet was the fitting setting for Robert Wun’s collection, enhancing the drama of his surrealist aesthetic. The audience was ushered through disorienting darkness onto a blacked out, carpeted stage to be seated in the round. Wun’s inspirations are often cinematic, but this season his starting point came from real life, namely the…
THE RUNDOWN: This morning, Chanel presented its studio-designed fall 2025 couture show. The collection followed a neutral palette of black and white, elevated by metallic accents and luxe embellishments. The front row was filled with It girls, including Lorde, Gracie Abrams, Laufey, and the Coppola-Mars family. Haute couture is officially underway, and that can only…
PARIS — If any force dominated the global fashion industry this season — eclipsing fabric, form and even the wildest silhouettes — it was the spectacle of celebrity. In a year marked by global anxiety and a hunger for fantasy, star power flooded Paris Fashion Week, turning runways into gladiator arenas where A-list icons, K-pop idols…
The movie “Jaws” is celebrating its 50th anniversary just in time for the start of summer. The now-iconic summer blockbuster and its mechanical shark didn’t exactly have a fashion connection when it was first released — until Raf Simons, then creative director for Calvin Klein 205W39NYC, used the film as inspiration for his spring 2019…
What does the “Future of Fashion” look like? At FIT’s 2025 student showcase of the same name (“FoF” for short), the future looked a lot like the present. Among the 81 designs on the runway at the New York State school’s Manhattan campus Thursday, trends ranging from artisanal textures to diva tailoring, transparencies, corsetry and…
Miami continues to flex its fashion muscle. The city will hold the second iteration of Florida Men’s Fashion Week Saturday and Sunday at the Hilton Miami Aventura, featuring 25 collections from featured designers from the U.S., Colombia, Venezuela, Spain, Nigeria, Angola, Thailand, Italy, Vietnam, Ukraine, Switzerland, Lebanon and Argentina. Among the brands that will participate…
It’s a valid enough question. In 2019, NASA had to update a planned all-female spacewalk to feature one man and one woman because it did not have enough spacesuits for two women. Except that Perry et al. were not wearing astronaut garb, but snazzy, figure-hugging blue and black catsuits that were somewhat reminiscent of Sue…
“We’re gonna shut it down,” declared Fletcher Kasell, aka the Fletcher in Tanner Fletcher. He was at the gender-fluid fashion brand’s Chelsea studio with his partner in business and life Tanner Richie giving WWD a preview of their spring 2026 bridal collection, which they’ve decided to bring to the runway for the first time. “We…
Spring is a season of renewal, a time for refreshing homes, minds and wardrobes. While you are at it, why not refresh your hair? A haircut is among the quickest — and most drastic — changes in appearance that someone can make. No wonder they can induce so much anxiety. But few transformations can leave…