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…
Last week, the 2025 Cannes Film Festival kicked off with a freshly reinforced dress code that stipulated, among other things, that “for decency reasons, nudity is prohibited on the red carpet.” If you’d asked me then to forecast the prevailing fashion takeaways from this year’s seaside cinema extravaganza, I would have predicted the obvious: a…
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. The vintage dealer Tommy Dorr is just an email or an Instagram DM away, but his appointment-only showroom, Mothfood, still feels like one of the best…
This past weekend, you could easily spot flocks of stylish Indigenous folks parading across Santa Fe, New Mexico—all decked out in their finest gowns, dentalium shell necklaces, and beaded earrings. The occasion for such peacocking? Santa Fe Native Fashion Week, a jam-packed weekend presenting new contemporary collections from Indigenous designers across North America. With tentpole…
People love to debate the timing of dinner, but no meal drums up divergent opinions quite like breakfast. The popular thinking pushed by cereal companies calls breakfast “the most important meal of the day.” And yet, millions of people skip it entirely, and subside off coffee until lunch. Should we be eating breakfast at all?…
“There was an early version that said We <3 the Dolls,” he said, “and as true as that is, words have so much meaning today and that felt like not getting to the meat of it.” He went with “Protect the Dolls” instead. What makes it such an effective affirmation is that Ives struck a…
Seoul, which Nichanian describes as “so exciting in terms of creativity, in fashion and in music, in movies and in art,” is a great shopping town. When I dropped by the mainstay local luxury boutique Boontheshop, the first brands I encountered when I stepped onto the men’s floor was an elite assemblage of Miu Miu,…
“I had no idea they were cooking this hard there!” That was the message at the top of my Instagram inbox when I was in China reporting on Shanghai Fashion Week. Because it happens on the heels of the Paris collections, and the shows in Shanghai are not exposed on social media at the level…