The fashion industry just lost one of its greats: Iconic fashion and costume designer Bob Mackie passed away on Monday. He was 87. (This certainly wasn’t the news we wanted to hear during New York Fashion Week.) “It is with a heavy heart that we share the news that Mr. Bob Mackie passed away today,”…
“I found myself thinking about how there are a lot of standards of how women should dress, and we need to be feminine and not too masculine,” Grace Ling told Fashionista backstage after her Spring 2027 show. “Even on social media, we’ve [normalized] being in a ‘feminine’ or ‘masculine’ era. It got to a point…
“Model off duty” looks — laid-back, I-just-threw-this-on outfits often consisting of jeans and a T-shirt — are a ubiquitous staple of fashion week street style. But this season at the Spring 2027 shows in New York City, it seemed the entire fashion community collectively decided to say, “Fuck it,” and dress down. (To be fair,…
On Saturday night, Dauphinette hosted its Spring 2027 show inside Genesis House, marking a return for the brand as an alum of the CFDA x Genesis House AAPI Design + Innovation Grant it won in 2025. For inspiration, Founder and Designer Olivia Cheng turned to the idea of the mondegreen — a phrase so often…
When it’s New York Fashion Week, most showgoers don’t have the luxury of waking up and heading to church for Sunday service. (Unless you’re lucky enough to have a rare stretch of free time, to which I say, “Amen.”) Instead, we put on our best dress, chug a cup of coffee and pray the delayed…
Trigger warning: This story contains descriptions and depictions of violence. Drama came to New York Fashion Week on Sunday at the COS Spring 2027 runway show, where CFDA CEO Steven Kolb took it upon himself to physically restrain multiple PETA activists attempting to storm the runway in protest of the use of wool in fashion.…
For Spring 2027, Tibi Founder and Creative Director Amy Smilovic traveled south for inspiration — to Nashville, specifically. She didn’t go the predictable route (think: cowboy hats and chaps), though; rather, the designer wanted to observe “people who were really comfortable dressing like outsiders but not caring,” she told Fashionista backstage ahead of the show.…
Jamie Haller didn’t need a New York Fashion Week presence, or the approval of establishments like the CFDA, to build a cult following around her timeless, quietly stylish (and comfortable) Italian-made footwear, which she did years ago all the way from Los Angeles. But after launching apparel (which she’d previously designed for other brands) in…