Alison Cohn

1 week ago | lofficielusa.com | Alison Cohn

FashionFrom harness-like jackets to upcycled leather dresses, this season's most ubiquitous accessory is making its mark. Like skirt lengths and stock prices, belts rise and fall. One might even say they’re an economic indicator, much like the better-known hemline index. Drop-waist belts highlighted the loose silhouettes of the Roaring Twenties, while after the Great Crash of 1929, a belt tightened several notches to sit just above the navel became the emblematic silhouette of leaner times.

1 week ago | wmagazine.com | Alison Cohn

Photo by Bet Bettencourt, courtesy of the Victoria and Albert MuseumIf you’ve ever left a fashion exhibition wishing you could take a closer look at the pieces on display, then you’re in luck. Order an Object, an unprecedented new on-demand service from London’s Victoria and Albert Museum, extends a level of access to the world’s largest and most comprehensive fashion collection that was previously only granted to designers, fashion students, and other industry professionals.

2 weeks ago | wmagazine.com | Alison Cohn

Clockwise from top left: patterns for the Loewe Puzzle bag; Ayo Edebiri with a version of the bag; colorful textiles; origami birds; the Loewe multicolored Puzzle bag re-edition nods to Pop Art. Handbags power modern luxury. So when Jonathan Anderson was hired to revitalize Loewe in 2013, he gamely set about delivering the Spanish leather goods house founded in 1846 with its first bona fide It bag. Enter, the Puzzle.

2 weeks ago | wmagazine.com | Alison Cohn

The Leo heels worn Carrie Bradshaw get second life with Jimmy Choo's The Archive: 1997-2001 capsule collection. Although Carrie Bradshaw often spoke of her two great loves on Sex and the City, Mr. Big and Aidan, she had another: Choos. The Sarah Jessica Parker character, who famously spent the equivalent of a New York apartment down payment on 40 pairs of designer shoes, was partial to a number of labels, including Manolo Blahnik, Christian Louboutin, and Jimmy Choo.

1 month ago | lofficielusa.com | Alison Cohn

FashionFor Spring/Summer 2025, the Swedish label headed to—and took inspiration from—Manhattan. It was “New York or nowhere” for Toteme’s New York Fashion Week runway debut in September. “That’s where I find my woman,” explains the label’s Stockholm-based designer, Elin Kling.