February 2016

It’s tough to make the simple look intriguing. But that’s Narciso Rodriguez’s whole shtick, and he makes a compelling argument for less is more season after season. Next time around, his women will be falling over themselves to pin down

Peter Copping moved Oscar de la Renta, for the second season running, out of the rarefied penthouse studio of Mr de la Renta and into a ball room on 28th street. Metaphorically - and physically - he’s bringing the label

Rob Lowe in “Young Blood” - clad in his ice hockey finest - was pinned up as inspiration for Stuart Vevers’ autumn/winter 2016 Coach collection. He opened his show with a riff on Rob, patched varsity jackets slung per brief

Kate and Laura Mulleavy of Rodarte are, quietly, some of the coolest designers in New York. Kirsten Dunst was in the audience for their winter show - she pretty much always is, and is apparently starring in a movie the

“Mad for Modigliani” said Vera Wang - via her autumn/winter 2016 show notes, not in person. “Glorious Giacometti. Long. Lean. Lithe.” Those were all words that sprang to mind when watching her show. Well, not Modigliani or Giacometti, to be

Tory Burch had horses when she was a young girl. Of course she did. There’s something thoroughbred and sleek and speedy about her clothes, just like the aforementioned cross between animal and transportation. And she closed her winter 2016 shows

A live band pumped out music for Rag & Bone’s autumn/winter 2016 show - but if there’s any band you want to be with, it’s David Neville and Marcus Wainwright’s R&B. How come? because the Bone brand merch is better

Zac Posen is a designer in the old-fashioned sense. Meaning he genuinely designs his clothes - they’re the product of painstaking cutting and fitting, elaborate workmanship and embellishment, a link to the tradition of Seventh Avenue couture. For winter, Posen

Beefy tweeds, quilted nylons, a acid-yellow and khaki palette, and touch of panne velvet. Those were the unexpected components of today’s 3.1 Phillip Lim show for autumn/winter 2016 - they wound their way around the models’ bodies in myriad convoluted

A tornado of tailoring was the rough feel at Thom Browne: every look contained a coat, of some description - even the bride, who wore an organza jacket around her legs and on her head as a veil, a bit

The acrid smell of hairspray stung your nostrils at Jeremy Scott - how else could you get those B-52 beehives to defy gravity so consistently than with an entire can of Elnett on each and every bounce? Jeremy Scott was

Ever seen HMS Pinafore? We reckon Tommy Hilfiger has - although his versions, otherwise known as his autumn/winter 2016 show, was soundtracked by the Jackson five and dresses up in forties sequined tea-dresses, sweeping navy pea coats and officer’s capes,