Editorials
Mieko Mintz: Mesmerizing Nature of Pattern & Color
One of our favorite things about fall is the opportunity for rich color – unlike the ethereal textiles of spring and summer, fall’s heavier fabrics can hold a more nuanced depth of color.
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A Love for Antiquity with Prounis
An interview with Jean Prounis What was your path to becoming a jewelry designer? I launched Prounis in 2017 as a vehicle to tell stories of my love for antiquities while bridging my Greek heritage with the age-old sustainable craft of handwrought jewelry. On visits as a child to see my late grandfather, Nick Prounis, […]
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Rundholz's Harmony of Hues
Carsten Rundholz is perhaps most famous for his unconventional design. With each collection, he shows the world new ways to experience garments and fabrics we thought we knew. Post-COVID, his work took on new life – instead of structure being the delightful surprise, he turned to color to drive the themes of each delivery. This […]
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A Tale of Time & Texture
In a sweep of remarkable texture and color, weathered-and-worn takes on new meaning in Rundholz’s collection for AW23. Through a stylized and deliberate patina, designers Carsten and Lenka create clothes that seem to tell their own stories – a washed jean jacket bleached by a trek through the desert; distressed cashmere sweaters stretched loose and […]
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Creative Catharsis: Trippen
Tension, despite its pejorative undertones, is a necessary and underestimated element. It is what heightens the drama of a well-composed painting, what makes you laugh after the delivery of a great punchline and what makes the strings of a violin sing when bowed. It’s omnipresent in a crowd of free minds, in an intimate conversation […]
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Sabina Savage's Tale of Tibet
Khata, a Tibetan gifting custom, is to bestow a ‘greeting scarf’ upon friends, relatives or guests. If given upon arrival, it indicates a wish of welcome and happiness. When shared at departure, it symbolizes a safe journey home. So begins Sabina Savage’s enchantment with Tibet. The collection is a celebration of Tibet’s rich and endlessly […]
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Lainey Keogh's Cashmere Tapestry
The magic of Ireland is lost on few. Among its rolling green hills and thousand-year-old stone villages live fates and faeries alike – supposedly, or not, depending on who you ask. The inspiration and mythos of this place lies in its natural splendor: a brush of early-autumn grass against the hand; the pleasant cool of […]
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Notes from the Field
Greetings from Paris Fashion Week! This week and last have been a whirlwind of color, creativity and camaraderie as we hit the pavement to find new designers, styles and inspiration for Spring/ Summer 2024. We found an abundance of good energy – and an equal amount of laughter and joy – in Paris, Milan and […]
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AODress: Presence & Character
When Japanese designers Mitsunori Ishimatsu and Miho Kuroda of AODress traveled to India in the early aughts, their team met artists craftsmen making the country’s most beautiful textiles – liquid silks, polished cottons and hand-woven linens a treat for the eye and hand. Delicate stitchwork danced across it all – a final flourish from the […]
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Ümit Ünal's Archaeology of Style
Ümit Ünal has been crafting his collection of high handwork goods for over 30 years. However, Ümit Ünal’s aesthetics were formed far before that. His upbringing in Istanbul honed his eye, from afternoons spent working in his family’s atelier to walking the streets surrounded by a millennia of history to childhood games played with scraps […]
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French Countryside Living with Casey Casey
The Casey Casey studio is deeply Parisian, an atelier workshop where each piece is thoughtfully crafted by hand. Inspiration is not born solely from the act of making – one must nourish the eye and mind to spark creativity. Casey Casey designer Gareth Casey does this by stealing away to his farm. The small acreage […]
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Grey Jewels: The Earth’s Chiaroscuro
Chiaroscuro, an Italian term literally meaning “light-dark,” is a technique that has been harnessed by history’s greatest artists. It is bright light and velvet dark mingling in the brush strokes of Da Vinci, Caravaggio and Rafael. Its inclusion signals drama, excitement and mystery – the contrasting tones a tease of secrets emerging from the shadows. […]
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Cecchi de’ Rossi - Feminine Modernity
Picture this: a late afternoon roaming the acreage of your family’s Tuscan winery. This rural land has nourished generations, through gardening, animal husbandry and now, the art of artisanal viniculture. The air is heady with the aroma of fermenting grapes and fresh-cut grass, a scent somehow more potent and nostalgic than the liquor of its […]
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Daniela Gregis in Tartan & Tomato Red
Color is always the first signal of the weather shifting – so funny how a leaf turning from emerald to chartreuse can pique the mind and awaken a new attitude. As the temperature dips in the evenings, the trees around our homes start to tinge golden ochre and deep burgundy. Keen on this seasonal delight, […]
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Golden Goose's Sneaker Rebellion
There may not be anything more nostalgic than a sneaker… from athletic wear to fashion essential, it’s an item practically synonymous with freedom. Tightening the laces on a favorite pair reminds us of after-school jaunts in asphalt parking lots; of sneaking through a bedroom window for an evening unrestricted; of a favorite golden-era movie star, […]
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Avant Toi: The Colors of Karijini
Hand-painted, brushed and misted with custom colors devised by designer Mirko Ghignone and his team, Avant Toi’s complex knits are a celebration of the natural palette. In their crimson and rust tones for the season, we found the inspiration of Karijini National Park – a sweeping landscape of canyons and cliffsides in Western Australia. Avant Toi’s […]
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A Closer Look at Dries Van Noten
For Dries Van Noten, inspiration lives just beyond the front door. Nature has always been Dries Van Noten’s driving motif, but to step out into his garden is to understand its impact on his eye in a new way. At his Belgian home, Dries Van Noten designs among a world rich in whimsy and sophistication. […]
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Tovi Farber: Echoing Antiquity
For Tovi Farber, working with gold is both a challenge and an opportunity – to explore and reinvent age-old jewelry conventions while still echoing the antiquity of its roots.
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Album di Famiglia: Fall in the Faroe Islands
Upon opening the Album di Famiglia Fall Collection, we felt a rush of traveled nostalgia – the kind that comes from waking before the sun rises, walking through wild grasses laced with dew, or thumbing through an heirloom book in a darkened library. Layers of crumply cotton velvet and nubby handknit sweaters feel like a […]
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Frenckenberger's Cashmere Counterculture
After years of living in the midst of fashion creativity in Paris, designers Terry-Ann Frencken and Nathalie Berger design knits intended to meet the needs of mountain living – with a wink to the seductive feel of cashmere on the (naked) body. From Rick Owens to Schönenberger, the duo have cut their teeth at houses […]
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Gilda Midani: Night as Day
Following her journey through the canyons at midnight, Gilda Midani sets her sights out to sea. The skies above Gilda Midani’s native Rio darken to blue and black as evening falls – a stellar tapestry that washes into an ocean just as serene. In dye baths replete with indigo and cerulean, Gilda Midani dips her […]
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Gilda Midani: Day as Night
Deeply inspired by the organic surroundings of her Brazilian studio, Gilda Midani is never far from nature. Gilda Midani’s hand-dyed clothing line is a marvel. She captures the immense emotion of the environment through abstract color and pattern. Akin to the artwork of Darren Almond – a British photographer who specializes in landscapes exposed solely […]
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In Pursuit of Beauty with Massimo Palomba
An interview with Eva and Massimo Palomba With a strong background in the fashion industry, partners in life and work Eva and Massimo Palomba create leather accessories of the highest quality. Their numbered, limited edition bags communicate understated elegance in silhouettes, colorways and finishes whose beauty only deepens over time. In anticipation of their latest […]
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Contemporary Antique: A Tentative Atelier
Within the creative minds of Nam Tsang and Pauline Yuen is a world replete with beauty: great literature, fine fabrics, global culture and Chinese aesthetic history all meld into their shared design eye. Born from this intellectual union of fashion, freedom and high artistry is their label, A Tentative Atelier. For Fall/ Winter 2023 the […]