The childlike sense of wonder that Bottega Veneta’s Matthieu Blazy was talking about backstage at his spring 2025 show had its early stirrings with this resort collection, which precedes it in stores by several months. The intrecciato version of Richard Scarry’s Biggest Word Book Ever, which caused a stir on social media at the brand’s […]
In advance of her Filippa K runway debut for fall 2025, Anna Teurnell, who was recently named the company’s new creative director, had designed a capsule that she imagined as “a little wardrobe that you can use whether you’re commuting to work or walking the dog.” (Both activities are part of Teurnell’s daily routine.) The […]
Simon Miller creative director Chelsea Hansford follows the style school of thought that animal prints aren’t a statement but a neutral. So in the brand’s resort collection, cheetah and zebra designs are her version of a little black dress: “They run wild in this collection,” Hansford said from Los Angeles. Indeed, everything from suits, dresses, […]
Olivier Rousteing has enjoyed 15 years, 13 as creative director, inscribing his handwriting on the history of the house of Balmain. Only now, however, has he picked up his pen and got scribbling. “Yes, that’s my writing,” he confirmed of the elegant cursive script inked via craft across these men’s and women’s pre-collections. “When I […]
As his 1970s-set movie project moves into pre-production—casting around 70 unknowns is one upcoming task—Eli Russell Linnetz did not allow himself to be distracted from the production of his fashion narrative. As the designer outlined it, this ERL pre-spring collection was storyboarded just so: “This story takes place in 1983 on the Sunset Strip. It’s […]
