“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…
Olivier Rousteing is still under 40. Yet he is also the third longest-standing non-founder creative director in ready-to-wear luxury fashion (after evergreen Véronique Nichanian at Hermès menswear and the mighty Ian Griffiths of Max Mara). So even as fashion cycles through its latest red wedding moment, Rousteing’s combination of veteran experience and youthful potential allows…
Morocco is woven into Giambattista Valli’s language “as an obsession,” he said. For resort, Marrakesh’s influence descended from the heights of last season’s couture, reinterpreted in a breezier, more laidback register. Think a palette of spicy reds and saffrons, and printed profusions of roses and bougainvilleas as if plucked straight from a garden. Steeped in…
Anna Sui gave her resort offering a name: Neo Romantic, and as always, it was well researched. She looked at an exhibition of the work of the fashion illustrator Christian Bérard in Monaco; “I like what his drawings evoke,” she said, pointing to the delicate, dreamy lines of his sketches on her moodboard. She studied…
If you haven’t noticed, fashion is in its transformation era. This period of transience and switching of roles started the great game of designer musical chairs and is (almost) at its completion. While the Internet speculates about whose debut will have us gagged and whose appointment was less deserved than others, we’re wondering where the…
PH5 is a young brand that’s continually building out its product categories. As a result, every meeting we have feels a bit like Christmas. New reveals for resort include mesh tops, monochrome looks that play with opacity by combining mesh and knit, and reflective styles. Yet with this collection, designer Zoe Champion and founder and…