Runway & Trends
Oversized Tailoring Keeps Growing, and Menswear Is Where It Started
The volume increase in tailored blazers and trousers continues season over season, with the trend's origins in menswear increasingly visible in womenswear collections.
Trompe L'Oeil Prints Are Back, Playing Tricks With Layering and Texture
Printed fabric designed to mimic seams, layering, or hardware is appearing across several collections, continuing fashion's periodic interest in visual deception.
3D-Printed Accessories Are Moving From Novelty to Genuine Runway Staple
Multiple collections featured 3D-printed jewelry and footwear elements this season, suggesting the technology has moved past its experimental phase.
Quiet Luxury's Successor Is Emerging, and It's Louder Than Expected
After several seasons of understated, logo-free minimalism, several major collections signaled a deliberate return to visible branding and bolder silhouettes.
Elena Voss Closes Her Most Restrained Show Yet, and It's Her Best in Years
The designer known for maximalist silhouettes stripped her latest collection down to structure and fabric alone, to widespread critical approval.
Menswear Houses Are Quietly Absorbing Womenswear's Draping Techniques
Traditionally structured menswear collections are incorporating soft draping and asymmetric construction typically associated with womenswear design.
Regional Textile Traditions Are Getting Direct, Credited Runway Placement
Several major houses partnered directly with artisan cooperatives this season, crediting specific weaving and dyeing traditions by name and region.
Sheer Layering Returns to the Runway, This Time Built for Actual Wear
Transparent fabric layered over structured basics is showing up across multiple collections, with more attention paid to wearability than shock value.