Lak spent years laying low, focused on projects outside of fashion, including a graphic novel and screenplay. He counts himself a true movie buff, with favorites like Eugene Kotlyarenko’s The Code, Juho Kuosmanen’s Compartment Number 6, and Woody Allen’s Match Point, but he couldn’t quite turn the page completely. After publishing a book of his…
This season, Moisés Nieto celebrated the 15th anniversary of his brand, but instead of a lavish runway show, the designer opted for something more meaningful: an intimate dinner attended by a small group of press and many of his longtime friends. “In the end, I feel like fashion shows have become cold spectacles,” said Nieto….
They say good things come to those who wait, and on the third day of 080 Barcelona Fashion, that moment arrived courtesy of Dominnico. At sunset, Domingo Rodríguez unveiled his latest collectiona a love letter to Western style and cowboy iconography he titled “777 Lucky Fall.” Fringe, studs, and cow prints set the tone in…
Trading caps and gowns for couture, these Boston students celebrate graduation on the runway Boston School of Fashion Design’s annual runway show celebrates 90 years of fashion instruction. Updated: 12:33 AM EDT May 30, 2025 Can everybody hear me? So someone was just asking, how do we know when your, when your number’s coming up?…
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…
Congratulations are in order for Cate Holstein, whose second baby, a girl, arrived the day before she was scheduled to present this resort collection. Chalk it up to the optimism and happiness a new birth brings, or simply to ongoing success—Holstein is on the verge of opening another new store, this one on Melrose Place…
Sally LaPointe has a new office. It’s one floor down from where she was a year ago, but the space is vastly different. Not only does it feel like twice the size of her previous headquarters, but the massive floor-to-ceiling windows makes it feel warmer, perhaps symbolizing the start of an even sunnier year for…
It’s become a TikTok phenomenon to snap a selfie in mirrors on Paris streets—for fit-check purposes or for your friends back home, depending on where you fall on the local/tourist continuum. Nicolas Di Felice adapted the concept for his pre-spring collection and lookbook. “I like the idea that the models took their own pictures,” he…
“I want to show what I love, what I really love.” So declared Maria Grazia Chiuri before she sent out a heart-felt, nearly all-white celebration of Rome, her birthplace. The women in the audience had been asked to dress in white, and gathered to watch in the spectacular formal gardens of the Villa Albani Torlonia….
Should you ever need a quick musical pick me up, I can highly recommend watching the divine Françoise Hardy perform her fabbo 1966 song Je changerais d’avis on YouTube. It’s totally her, a wonderfully rousing symphonic number. And then there’s the performance itself, all shiny Pop Art jackets and that blunt-banged, straight-shanked hair of hers…