Days after arriving in Shanghai, I found a rare moment of calm amid a whirlwind of cutting-edge retail, fashion shows, luxury car rides, VPN-free anxiety, and more dumplings than I’d care to admit. Over tea at The House in Xintiandi, I sat down with Landon Du, director of Shanghai Fashion Week, for a lesson in the city’s forward-thinking approach to fashion. “Shanghai Fashion Week was founded in 2003 by Lv Xiaolei, better known as Madame Lv,” Du explained. “The mission was to support emerging designers. The real shift came in 2012, when designers who had studied abroad began returning, showing just how powerful Chinese fashion could be.” Throughout the week, I witnessed the depth and complexity of Shanghai’s scene firsthand, speaking with...

As a millennial woman with both a personal and professional interest in style, I feel that any use of the word ‘jeggings’ should come with a trigger warning. So here you go… trigger warning: jeggings! Remember them, the stretch-denim (or denim appropriating; printed and detailed to resemble it) leggings that were billed as the easy, comfortable way to do skinny jeans? Of course you do; they dominated our wardrobes in the late Noughties and early 2010s (‘jeggings’ entered the Oxford English Dictionary in 2011, the same year as ‘retweet’ and ‘sexting’). Since then we have come to realise that jeans are not necessarily best seemingly painted to your skin, and have found a renewed appreciation for rigid denims, classic cuts and boyish silhouettes. Even if you’re on board with...

But a new kind of fashion fan has become the protagonist of the 2020s industry—and they don’t care about being inside the show. Hundreds of people can amass outside of runway shows in Paris. At first the crowds were small; a couple of kids hoping to see Rick Owens chilling outside the Palais de Tokyo. Now, shows attract such rabid fans that the police will cordon off streets, erect barricades, and establish a presence days in advance. It’s a tactical approach to making sure no one gets too good a view of Jisoo or Rosalía, though some shows, like Christian Dior, take an additional precaution, creating another inner sanctum where only the star’s drivers and accredited photographers can be present for...

Photo: Getty Images Products are independently selected by our editors. We may earn an affiliate commission from links. We all have that one obsession that informs our personal style, and for me, it has always been jeans. Growing up as a fashion lover in rural Canada, with no access to the hottest new brands or covetable designer items, I developed a fascination around working with what I could find locally—denim—and making it feel avant-garde. Super-skinny jeans, ripped jeans that were splattered with paint; I took delight in finding the most off-kilter pairs, often DIY’ing them to make them even more weird. Today, my closet is still overflowing with jeans—from baggy to skinny to flared. They're my kryptonite! And can you blame me? They’re a classic...