While most would consider a runway model’s last look to be the end of a collection during a fashion show, audience members typically wait a beat for the designers to take their customary final bow. Each head of house is unique in the way they take their flowers: Ralph Lauren, Véronique Nichanian, Willy Chavarria, and…
“The bayou docent rendezvoused in France while dripped out in Valentino” might sound like an overbaked Riff Raff lyric, but it was actually the reality at Paris Fashion Week on Sunday, when Jeremy Dufrene, the generally low-key husband of Lana Del Rey, accompanied his pop star wife to the maison’s spring 2026 fashion show. In…
The work of Amanda McGowan and Mattie Barringer, the duo behind the experimental label Women’s History Museum lives right at the edge where the meaning and purpose of clothes becomes unwieldy; where practical needs crash against symbols. It reject notions of propriety, and embraces an unabashed commitment to the female urge to dress up. Although…
The collection will land in 10 Gucci stores around the world on September 25 as Demna seeks to turn around the house’s steadily declining sales. But what he clearly understands about the moment is that making exciting new clothes is only half the battle. Fashion has run on mass attention ever since Demna broke into…
You never know who you might see at New York Fashion Week, be it Spike Lee’s son, influencer Caroline Calloway, or basketball legend Dennis Rodman, who attended the Luar presentation in Manhattan’s Financial District on Monday night. As one of New York’s new marquee labels, Luar has attracted an increasingly starry crowd in recent years—three…
The prevailing theme of this New York Fashion Week so far is that everyone wants to be a preppie now—but prep is a state of mind that Caroline Calloway, the writer, influencer, and estranged NYC socialite, has never quite left. “There’s nothing I find more inspiring than a reverence in Gothic castles,” Calloway tells me…
Though Paris Fashion Week doesn’t officially begin until the end of September, a celebrity fashion-newcomer is kicking off the month with a flashy runway show in the French capital. On Monday evening, the musician Post Malone, whose real name is Austin Richard Post, will stage a presentation to debut his namesake label, Austin Post, as…
When I think back on any Willy Chavarria runway show, the first thing I remember is the models. The Southern California-raised, Mexican-American designer, who has won two CFDA awards for his Chicano-influenced menswear, consistently has among the most vibrant, sexy, and cinematic casting of any shows on the fashion calendar. His modern zoot suits and…
This is an edition of the newsletter Show Notes, in which Samuel Hine reports from the front row of the fashion world. Sign up here to get it free. Buongiorno from day one of Milan Fashion Week Men’s, and welcome back to Show Notes. When I originally pitched this newsletter in 2022, I envisioned it…
Allow me to make a case for the fashion jersey, and see if you don’t agree. It’s summer, which showed up early yet again. You have a closet full of linen shirts, short-sleeve button-ups, vintage tees, and classic tanks (all of which we endorse and encourage). Except you feel the itch. You ’re looking for…