Kim Jones had Rome on his mind when designing the fall 2022 Fendi collection. Specifically: the imagery of Delfina Delettrez walking into the label’s Roman headquarters donning a printed top she plucked directly from her mother ​​Silvia Venturini Fendi’s wardrobe. Given Jones’s history with taking influence from Fendi’s home city, this source of inspiration wasn’t too surprising. But the subtle influence of the brand’s archives—plus a really great take on geometric prints that felt at once soft and strong—still made a major impression. Jones looked to the glitzy Fendi archives for more, diving deep into the Italian fashion house’s spring 1986 and fall 2000 lines specifically. The latter collection, designed by Jones’s predecessor Karl Lagerfeld, provided ample inspiration when it came...

Opposition and contrast were the true statement-makers at Prada’s fall 2022 show. Kaia Gerber opened the presentation wearing a gray skirt that extended into a gauzy, embellished fabric with yellow feather-like details, paired alongside a simple white tank top bearing the signature triangle Prada logo. Meanwhile, Kim Kardashian sat front row wearing a head-to-toe lime green leather look. The combination of flamboyant skirts with simple, streamlined tops exemplified Miuccia Prada’s love for ornate embellishment mixed with Raf Simons’s stark silhouettes. The effect was, in a word, fabulous. But in many ways, it also felt referential to Prada’s fall 2017 show, in which models wore oversized outerwear with skirts that were bottom-heavy with beading, colorful feathers, furs, and more—a collection that put...

“I want to be stressed all the time!” Chet Lo exclaims as I witness his casting over Zoom, just two days before he presents his Fall 2022 runway show at London Fashion Week. For most designers, the run-up to show day delivers the most anxiety-inducing days of their season, but Lo thrives on it. Even though I’m not technically in the room, I can see that Lo’s taking it all in his stride, and his bizarre composure is having a knock-on effect on the team, who are busy crafting away on his new collection behind him. The energy is high. The vibes are good. And the giggles — there are a lot of them. Fall 2022 marks Chet Lo’s second “official” collection: The CSM alum was picked...

Marc Jacobs loves a runway show, to the point that rather than attempt to simulate one during the pandemic, he’s only presented a single collection over the course of the past two years. At least, that’s what it seemed like when the fall 2022 season of New York Fashion Week came and went without any sign of the 51-year-old designer. But when Telfar Clemens took over Jacobs’s usual grand finale slot this past Wednesday, Jacobs wasn’t just at home twiddling his thumbs. He was prepping to drop his own fall 2022 collection 48 hours later, making the leap to digital by simply posting it on Instagram. “We were like, ‘we’re not showing until we can do a show the way we show,’” Jacobs...

If there’s anything we learned from the past couple of years, it’s that we’re all swapping our usual closet staples out for early-aughts styles. And according to the Fall 2022 shows at New York Fashion Week, the revival of the micro-mini skirt trend is still going strong. With the rise of “going-out” outfits continuing to take over our wardrobes well into 2022, it seems that we’ll be seeing the super-short silhouette even in the dropping temperatures. So far at New York Fashion Week, we’ve spotted the micro-mini skirt in all styles and fabrics fit for the cold-weather months, like Christian Cowan’s tweed set, Kim Shui’s fuzzy and tiny versions, Dauphinette’s pleated tennis style, and LaQuan Smith’s barely-there take on the trend,...

To read the news over the past few years was to believe that fashion, as both a concept and an industry, had officially given up the ghost. In 2020, the sector posted an unprecedented 93 percent decline in economic profit—the worst year on record—according to the McKinsey Global Fashion Index. First Barneys declared bankruptcy, then Neiman Marcus. Viral stories like “Sweatpants Forever,” in The New York Times—which proclaimed that “even before the pandemic, the whole fashion industry had started to unravel”—read like obituaries for a world in which big-name designers influenced style or set trends. The premise seemed to make sense: Who needs couture gowns, or even trousers with a button, when you spend your Saturday nights doom-scrolling on the sofa...

Luxury is reimagined in Altuzarra's Fall/Winter 2o22 collection, an intricate display of the meld between reality and fantasy. Drawing upon a framework of sea explorers and nautical creatures, the collection boasts colorful patterned fabrics, textured layers, and mythical accessories that point to a story of exploration and discovery. Every day pieces combine with statement innovation to reintroduce the label as a powerhouse in forward-thinking design and versatile fashion. Held in New York City’s historic Woolworth Building—which doubles as the location of Altuzarra’s studio and headquarters—the ceiling was adorned with motifs of fish scales, sea creatures, and small sailboats, an ode to exploration and fantasy. “This season I was inspired by the ocean, seafarers and the myths and mysteries of the underwater world,"...

Ladies and gentlemen, I’d like to reintroduce you to jelly sneakers. If you’re keeping tabs on the never-ending resurgence of ’90s trends, it’s yet another polarizing movement poised for a major comeback this year. Those who grew up in that decade might recall days of running around on the playground in a squishy, see-through pair. But the playful shoe feels all grown up now, thanks to sleek variations that make for cool pairings with suits and spring dresses. Jonathan Anderson showed us how it’s done best, sending models down the runway in draped dresses and translucent trainers for Loewe’s spring 2022 presentation. Some of those runway looks have trickled into the pages of Vogue; for our February cover story, Alex Harrington styled Hoyeon Jung in not...