Every season, Cult Gaia designer Jasmin Larian Hekmat transports her customers—through clothes—to various far-flung vacation destinations. Her feminine, easy-breezy pieces are built with beachy getaways in mind—but this time around, Hekmat wanted to evoke a different mood with her upbeat assortment. “I kept coming back to the word charming,” she said. “For me, the word…
Naeem Khan recently got engaged to model Madlena Kalinova, and to celebrate their upcoming nuptials the couple took a trip out to Sofia, Bulgaria together. (Kalinova is Bulgarian.) While the intention of the trip was to meet some of Kalinova’s family members and visit her native country, Khan was struck with fashion inspiration while visiting….
Rosetta Getty’s resort collection began with an art-filled memory. “This collection started with a studio visit with my friend Analia Saban, who’s an artist. She took me to Gemini G.E.L. in Los Angeles; it’s this amazing place that makes all the prints, so like John Baldessari, Ed Ruscha… whoever wants to work in that medium,…
David Koma is easing just fine into the Milanese work hard/weekend harder lifestyle that the city’s proximity to beaches, lakes, and mountains has turned into a sort of competitive sport. By Friday, Milan is a ghost town , and the fashion playbook flips accordingly: suits off, swimwear on. “Italians have this great on-the-go style, a…
The house of Hermès descended on the North Bund Bay of Shanghai on a June evening to present the second chapter of its fall 2025 collection. One would be hard-pressed to name a brand that hasn’t staged a grand affair in China recently, catering to the country’s healthy appetite for fashion (despite the troubling luxury…
“Wrapping the world in joy” is La DoubleJ’s motto—and even if the world doesn’t seem to listen to such urging, founder JJ Martin bravely marches on as a standard bearer of mood-boasting, spirit-lifting fashion. To celebrate 10 years of turning everyday style into a full-on fiesta of high-vibration prints, she relocated the company to the…
As a way to preserve crafts that are often passed from generation to generation (an inheritance of skill) , every Heirlome collection includes at least one collaboration with a Mexican or Latin American artisan. The artisans are given complete artistic freedom and brand founder Stephanie Suberville doesn’t know what the outcome will be until the…
About midway through this lookbook, there’s a sweater intarsia’d with the number 67 on the front. That’s 67 as in 1967, the year Ralph Lauren launched his company, nearly half a century ago. Lauren is as responsible as anyone for shaping the world’s understanding of American fashion. If his resort collection looks familiar, it’s because…
Rather than taking inspiration from a specific source, like his jogs along the West Side Highway or surf sessions at Rockaway Beach, Yigal Azrouël embraced the more esoteric this season. “I like the idea of imperfection,” he said. “It’s about work in progress.” Still, there is palpable consideration in his work. Flowing dresses are finished…
A scan of By Malene Birger’s resort lookbook suggests that all is business as usual at the label, but that’s not quite so; as brand director Barbara Gullstein said on a call, we should think of resort 2026 as a “transitional season.” This is because Emilie Martinsen-Kønigsfeldt, the newly appointed creative director who also owns…