Steven Stokey Daley of S.S. Daley won the LVMH Prize, awarded today in Paris at the Fondation Louis Vuitton. Presented by Cate Blanchett, the award comes with a year of mentorship and a cash prize of 300,000 euros. “Oh no, I’m going to cry,” Stokey Daley said, as he accepted the award from Blanchett, quickly … Read more
There were 250 students in the BFA fashion design class of 2022 at the New School Parsons School of Design. Having reviewed all of their portfolios online and some of them in person, it occurs to me that while a post World War II mentality is still operative in the world at large—it certainly appears … Read more
There was a double-decker runway, 115 student collections, and Madonna in the front row. Whatever horrors are assailing the world, the Central Saint Martins fashion class of 2022 managed to trounce adversity: Their graduation show was a wildly uplifting carnival of mobile sculpture, pinging color, and Gen Z magical thinking. Madge had manifested because her … Read more
The Savannah College of Art and Design is situated in the Historic District of Savannah, Georgia. With its Spanish moss and grand façades, the city isn’t an obvious location for an art school, let alone one with a robust fashion program that has produced the designers Christopher John Rogers and Recho Omondi. This weekend, the … Read more
In New York, the casualization of fashion is ideological and geographical. Uptown polish has given way to downtown edge. What Soho was to many Abstract Expressionists, the Lower East Side has been to many bands, and more recently, fashion brands. Now there’s one that pays homage to that creative mecca below 14th Street: Loisida. (That’s … Read more
Looking at the work of the Class of ’22 it’s clear that there are seismic shifts happening in fashion. These changes are the result of a fresh way of approaching design; in place of the post-modern remix that has set us on an endless loop of nostalgia, many new gen creators are using fashion as … Read more
Today, prior to the release of those resort and spring 2023 collections, the brand is dropping a teaser, in the form of a capsule swimwear collection campaign, shot in the wintery North of Sweden, near Skellefteå. It’s made entirely out of materials already in-house, intriguingly including black velvet, and shows a gaggle of models ice … Read more
For Mariton Villanueva, founding Himaya meant creating a brand that acts as a complete antithesis of fast fashion. Though it was officially founded in 2019, with Villanueva’s college capstone project serving as the brand’s first collection, Himaya really has its roots in Villanueva’s childhood, when she would visit her extended family’s clothing factories. There, she … Read more
There’s a charming Island of Misfit Toys-aspect to the remake and repair work of Alva Johansson and Maja Freiman. As the cofounders of Main Nué, they find not only beauty, but worthiness in other people’s castoffs. “I really think it’s nice to look at broken things, things that don’t really have a value,” said Freiman, … Read more
Lu Chen is a recent Parsons graduate who made a double debut last season in a gallery in SoHo. Upstairs there were intricate and truly couture-like pieces on mannequins. (Jordan Roth has worn several pieces from that collection, including a printed look with a built-in video component.) Downstairs there was smaller offering of ready-to-wear that … Read more