NEW YORK, NEW YORK – SEPTEMBER 11: Models walk the runway during the Michael Kors Collection Spring/Summer 2026 Runway Show at Terminal Warehouse on September 11, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by JP Yim/Getty Images for Michael Kors) Getty Images for Michael Kors 9/11 and its remembrances will always be a part of the…
The two winners with faculty on the Red Carpet of The Future of Fashion Event. Credit: Michael Loccisano, Getty Courtesy of FIT Each spring, at the close of the semester, the best work from graduating students from the Fashion Institute of Technology’s Fashion Design Bachelor of Fine Arts program is chosen to participate in The…
In the latest “Savage Fashion” podcast episode, WWD’s chief content officer Jim Fallon and fashion director Alex Badia sat down with Michael Kors to discuss his fashion-obsessed childhood and ascent to the industry as well as his return to “Project Runway,” filmed at the renovated and recently reopened Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York. “I always…
Shakira Austin didn’t realize how important fashion would become when she entered the WNBA in 2022. Her introduction to game-day tunnel fashion began at the University of Mississippi in 2020. “My school started doing their own tunnel fits,” she said. “It was cute, but I definitely didn’t know [the WNBA tunnel walk was] as popping…
An easy-going, family-first approach to life looks great on Singaporean actor-turned-illustrator Edmund Chen. Not only does he look much younger than his 63 years, he feels younger, too. In his youth, he starred in a string of Singaporean television drama series such as Sunshine After Rain (1987), the sci-fi romantic comedy Star Maiden (1988) and…
On or off the runway, fashion can conjure up psychoanalytical questions that are spoken or subliminal. And this fall, The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology will stage the first exhibition to dive into the cultural history of fashion and psychoanalysis. Drawing from five years of research, “Dress, Dreams, and Desire: Fashion and Psychoanalysis”…
Class has been dismissed for most college students, but some recent graduates are still flying high from their final runway shows. While powerhouse fashion design schools like The New School’s Parsons School of Design and the Fashion Institute of Technology get their share of attention for runway shows, WWD has caught up with seven other…
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…
Style Points is a column about how fashion intersects with the wider world. “Last Days to Save. Shop Tariff-Free,” read the header on one high-end resale site last week. It was a sign that even the secondhand market—projected to become a $40 billion juggernaut by 2029—is set to be buffered by the proposed tariffs that…
Kenny Bonavitacola, a designer who worked for a dozen American brands, died Thursday at the age of 71. Bonavitacola died at Tisch Hospital in New York City of pancreatic cancer, 13 days after he had been diagnosed, according to his sister Alexis. Services are being planned in Philadelphia, the city of his birth, and a…