Cultivating Prestige: How Haider Ackermann Is Turning Tom Ford Into An Institution
Prestige is an elusive formula of desire, discipline and perception. Tom Ford’s Haider Ackermann is turning that formula into a world of its own.
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Marni S/S 2027: Meryll Rogge Keeps It Polite
Marni used to be the pinnacle of quirky, turning strangeness into the effortlessly beautiful. Meryll Rogge seems more concerned with turning the slightly unconventional into the perfectly respectable. How brave.
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McQueen S/S 2027: Dumbed-down and de-fanged
Sean McGirr delivers another empty McQueen simulacrum: immaculate tailoring, exquisite craftsmanship and a parade of familiar McQueen-isms; but devoid of the intellectual bite that made them worth a damn in the first place.
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The Best (and Worst) Collections of NYFW Spring/Summer 2027
NYFW may finally be showing signs of life again. Spring/Summer 2027 gave New York genuine design voices worth believing in, even as derivative work reminded us how far the city still has to go before it stops looking for Europe for validation.
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Proenza Schouler Needs Rachel Scott To Be Bolder If It Hopes To Have An Identity Again
A new designer, an old problem, and a New York brand quickly becoming redundant.
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Schiaparelli Haute Couture F/W 26/27: High Fashion At Its Most Digestible
Tiny waists. Rubber bodices. Light-up torsos. Daniel Roseberry’s Schiaparelli is an extravagant camp spectacle.
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Cruise 2027: Big Luxury’s Big Bet on Designer Mythology
How the myth of the Creative Director has become the industry’s most powerful tool.
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The 5 Runway Shows That Actually Mattered This Season (Fall/Winter 2026/27)
Am I the only one who feels cliche doing this in 2026? Who even needs another anonymous online opinion on fashion? Another season, another fashion week where half of us pretend to like it while the other half pretends to afford it. But here’s the thing: when the established names that used to be the…
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Why Do People Hate Demna? 7 reasons fashion’s most polarizing designer provokes such intense backlash
Few modern designers have drawn more hostility than Demna Gvasalia (now just “Demna”). Over the past decade Demna has reshaped Balenciaga into one of the most culturally dominant brands in fashion, and now steps into a new era at Gucci, debuting in Fall/Winter 2026/27. For his fierce supporters, Demna forced luxury fashion to confront contemporary…
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Alaïa FW26/27 Review: Pieter Mulier’s Final Collection Feels More Like an Intermission
Pieter Mulier leaves Alaïa with a collection that is technically disciplined but strangely uneventful—raising the possibility that his real ambitions may already be aimed at Versace. Paris Fashion Week — Alaïa Fall/Winter 2026–27 The Short Version For a designer closing a five-year tenure at one of fashion’s most revered houses, the expectation is usually a…
