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Kiko Kostadinov FW24 Explores the Balance of Dressing

Since its 2018 establishment, Kiko Kostadinov’s womenswear arm has been led by twin sisters Laura and Deanna Fanning. Just like the magic that encompasses Twindom, the two have brought their unique creative vision to the label that has continuously made its womenswear pieces sought after in fashion. With just the right balance of homage to Kostadinov’s foundations and contemporary zeal, the sisters know how to execute without doing too much. So with its new Fall/Winter 2024 collection, the siste
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Louis Vuitton FW24 Is a Testament to Timeless Grace

Where the Louis Vuitton man has maneuvered into a more boisterous and creative personality over the years with names like Virgil Abloh and Pharrell Williams, the Louis Vuitton woman has remained calm, yet still irrefutably stylish. It was 2014 when Nicolas Ghesquière stepped into the womenswear creative director seat, and for 10 years he’s been refining the archetype of the LV woman. So with Ghesquière’s 10th-anniversary show, the Fall/Winter 2024 collection offered up a balance of past, present
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Sacai FW24 Showcases the Emotional Protection of Fashion

Since the establishment of her label Sacai in 1999, Chitose Abe has carved her own path of confidently creative fused dressing. A master of hybridization, Sacai has continuously refined its appetite for blending streetwear and tailored styles. It’s a complicated dance, but it’s one that Abe knows very well. Just take a look at the brand’s multiple collaborations with Carhartt for example. With the brand’s latest collection for the Fall/Winter 2024 season taking the runway during Paris Fashion We
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Issey Miyake FW24 Fuses Form and Function

Although there will never be another Issey Miyake, creative director Satoshi Kondo has been keeping the label’s legacy alive through a fusion of respectful reverence for Miyake and his own design affinity. Simply put, he’s been doing a great job. So as the brand returned to Paris Fashion Week once again, what came down the runway for the Fall/Winter 2024 season was a fusion of form and function.

The concept is by no means new in the Issey Miyake world. The late designer was not just known but c
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Yohji Yamamoto FW24 Is a Tale of Strength Personified by Volume

For over five decades, Yohji Yamamoto has been changing the face of fashion as a pioneer of avant-garde styles and gender nonconformity. Even as a seasoned veteran and all-around creative legend, the designer is still growing in each season – continuously refining, tweaking, evolving and ultimately shaping standards of true craftmanship. For his latest, the Japanese designer headed to Paris Fashion Week to reveal his Fall/Winter 2024 collection.

With the new collection, Yamamoto revealed a tale
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Givenchy FW24 Leans Into Past Successes

Lately, Givenchy has been a house in flux. In the past 10 years, the brand has moved between three creative directors seeing Riccardo Tisci, Clare Waight Keller and Matthew M Williams. Tisci had a solid run from 2005 to 2017, but the two that followed him only lasted out the house for about three years each. That’s not enough time to impart a succinct and long-lasting vision at a luxury house, but in today’s climate leaders are expected to do the impossible instantly. Alongside that, one of the
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Ferrari FW24 Punches the Throttle With Unwavering Luxury

Across the world, Ferrari is known for its fine Italian automotive prowess that’s enamored by its signature red shade and black horse logo. But aside from cars, the brand has been seeping into the luxury fashion space under the direction of fashion designer, Rocco lannone. So with its latest collection for the Fall/Winter 2024 season, the brand returned to Milan Fashion Week to punch the throttle in a testament of unwavering luxury.

Luxury coupled with sports performance has always been a hallm
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Courrèges FW24 Touts Calm Sensuality

Under the stewardship of Nicolas Di Felice, Courrèges has always found its footing in the balance between simplicity and sensuality. For him, pompous spectacles and costume-like attire aren’t necessary to craft a winning collection as wearability remains on his mind. So with the brand revealing its new Fall/Winter 2024 collection during Paris Fashion Week, Di Felice imparted another discussion on sensuality, but this time it danced with symmetry.

Sensuality is a given for Di Felice. He knows ho
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Blumarine Takes a Colorfully Soft Touch for FW24

A new day is dawning at Blumarine. Last November, it was announced that Walter Chiapponi would follow behind Nicola Brognano as Blumarine’s new creative director. In an age where the creative director door is revolving more than ever, supporters of the brand have been waiting to see where previous Tod’s designer would take the Y2K-leaning Italian label. Well, now the first inkling of that direction has come with Blumarine’s Fall/Winter 2024 collection which marks Chiapponi’s debut collection for
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Tom Ford FW24 Reveals That Reinvention Isn’t Always Needed

Last September, Peter Hawkings made his debut as the new creative director at Tom Ford, coming behind the celebrated American designer himself. Undeniably big shoes to fill, Hawkings rose to the occasion with a Spring/Summer 2024 collection that emphasized the layered, yet sexily sleek core that makes up Ford’s eponymous label. With his second turn at the Ford rodeo, this time for the Fall/Winter 2024 season, Hawkings is still leaning into what made the American label great to begin with.

To ex
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Thom Browne Saunters in Moody, yet Refined Fantasy for FW24

“NEVERMORE. NEVERMORE. NEVERMORRREEEEEEE,” yelled a recording of actor Carrie Coon reciting Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Raven” before the light fell and booming applause filled The Shed. Thom Browne did it again. He closed NYFW with the best show of the week, marked by an unparalleled exhibition of intrigue, romance and design poetry.

For his Fall/Winter 2024 collection, Browne looked to Edgar Allen Poe’s poem, “The Raven,” for inspiration. As such, Browne’s sense of fanciful, yet tailoring-centric
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LUAR FW24 Is a Reminder of Nuanced Fluidity

Last night tucked away in a Brooklyn warehouse, Raul Lopez held the Fall/Winter 2024 runway show for his eponymous label LUAR. In his own right, the designer has already been one of the most sought-after names on the New York Fashion Week calendar due to his contemporarily sexy, striking and culture-savvy designs. But after last night, Lopez might’ve just won this year due to a special front-row appearance by Beyoncé.

Quite honestly the event was a Knowles family affair with Tina and Solange Kn
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Wiederhoeft FW24 Revels in Glamorous Drama

Jackson Wiederhoeft has an affinity for glamorous drama with his eponymous label, Wiederhoeft. His Fall/Winter 2024 runway show yesterday during New York Fashion Week was no different. Before a single look cascaded down the runway, Wiederhoeft had already set the stage with the expansive window-clad space in the Starrett-Lehigh Building. As the sunset peered into the building and fog filled the air, attendees hustled towards the seats in preparation for Wiederhoft’s new magic.

Entitled “Secret
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AKNVAS FW24 Touches on Texture and Contemporary Class

Christian Juul Nielsen revealed the new Fall/Winter 2024 collection from his label AKNVAS, which blended the details of expanded expression and versatile dress notes. Since the Danish-born designer founded his label in 2019, AKNVAS has remained committed to the pursuit of sustained contemporary elegance.

To bring this vision to life, Juul Nielson took to the Ritz Carlton in NoMad to hold his latest show. Void of theatrical frills, the show focused on what truly mattered, the clothes. What stand
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Jane Wade FW24 Makes Strides in Hybridized Style

Although Jane Wade is still a new name in the fashion world, she has the attitude and confidence of a veteran – sure in what she wants to do, but also savvy enough to keep evolving. Hailing from the Pacific Northwest, Jane Wade launched her eponymous label in 2022. Just that fast she’s become a New York Fashion Week name – presenting off the calendar last year and making her official NYFW debut for the Fall/Winter 2024 season.

For her new collection, Wade dives deeper into her signature aesthet
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Willy Chavarria Tells a Story of Intimate Safety for FW24

Nestled in a Greenpoint brick warehouse near Brooklyn’s waterfront, Willy Chavarria set the stage for his Fall/Winter 2024 runway show. As attendees filed into the brisk enclosure they were bathed in crimson red light before a long dining table with countless softly dancing white candles. The space was filled with a moody intrigue, but one that felt familial. But when the show began, models did not immediately spill out onto the runway. Instead, a long white cloth fell from the ceiling revealing
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CLOT SS24 Opens a New Chapter of Creativity

Showcased during Shanghai Fashion Week, CLOT is opening a new chapter of creativity with its new Spring/Summer 2024 collection. Entitled “CHANGE THE GENERATION,” the latest offering centers on the brand’s exaltation of emerging talent and celebration of Chinese culture.

Led by creative director Edison Chen and with the help of Humberto Leon as a co-designing creative consultant, the new collection embraces the fusion of Easter and Western styles to bring forth new hallmarks of the CLOT identity
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Tom Ford Returns to Its Sexily Sleek Core for SS24

Since Tom Ford launched his eponymous label in 2005, the brand has been known for its appetite for attractively chic, yet adult ensembles. But in April of this year when Tom Ford announced his departure from his label, questions began to circulate about how the brand’s legacy would carry on. In comes Peter Hawkings who just made his collection debut as Tom Ford’s new creative director for the Spring/Summer 2024 season and without question it is a return to form.
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