Ari Stark

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Fashion Assistant at Women's Wear Daily (WWD)

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FIT's 2025 'Future of Fashion' Showcase Embraces Trends of the Present

5 days ago | wwd.com | Ari Stark

What does the "Future of Fashion" look like? At FIT 's 2025 student showcase of the same name ("FoF" for short), the future looked a lot like the present. Among the 81 designs on the runway at the New York State school's Manhattan campus Thursday, trends ranging from artisanal textures to diva tailoring, transparencies, corsetry and upcycled materials were right in step with current collections from major high-fashion brands.
Fernando Jorge Commemorates Art Deco Centennial With Vertex Fine Jewelry Collection

1 week ago | wwd.com | Ari Stark

Architectural trends come and go, but Art Deco is forever. That's the idea Fernando Jorge had in mind for his latest fine jewelry collection, Vertex, timed to commemorate 100 years since the Jazz Age phenomenon debuted in Paris at the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes.
Bermudas and Boots, the New Gen Z Uniform

1 week ago | wwd.com | Ari Stark |Alejandro Badia

It may be early springtime, but the street style in lower Manhattan is heating up quick. After a particularly brutal winter, New Yorkers are eager to soak up the sunshine, swapping out their hefty knits and outerwear for crop tops and shorts, aka the new Gen Z uniform. While micro shorts were undoubtedly the talk of the town last summer, and the trend has legs as these pictures show, longer lengths are also part of the trend forecast, especially an edgier mid-calf Bermuda.
Presley Oldham's Pearls Pop Up at Bergdorf Goodman

2 weeks ago | wwd.com | Ari Stark

Presley Oldham's pearls are popping up at Bergdorf Goodman. The department store has snapped up the Brooklyn-based designer's colorful line of organic pearl and glass beaded "compost" jewelry for the summer. Starting Thursday through the end of July, Oldham will be situated on 5f, Bergdorf's contemporary fifth floor. "It does feel kismet," he said, given the launch date coincides with his brand's fifth anniversary.
LiĆ© Studio Launches Exclusive Jewelry Capsule for Moda Operandi

3 weeks ago | wwd.com | Ari Stark

Lié Studio, the Danish accessories brand founded by former models Amalie and Cecilie Moosgard, is launching a jewelry capsule exclusively for Moda Operandi. It centers around a pair of button earrings belonging to the twins' grandmother, which they ironically found in her sewing kit next to actual buttons. "It became more than just an earring. It became a design code that ties the entire collection together," Amalie said.
The Top Trends From New York Bridal Fashion Week Spring 2026

3 weeks ago | wwd.com | Emily Mercer |Ari Stark

Keeping with the body-consciousness bubbling up in haute couture and ready-to-wear lately, the corset continued to serve as a foundation in just about every bridal collection during April's New York Bridal Fashion Week for spring 2026. Designers put the emphasis on a range of waist-forward wedding dress silhouettes this season, with a distinct split between two different skirt shapes.
Former Kalita Cofounder Launches Resortwear Brand, Temily

1 month ago | wwd.com | Ari Stark

The third season of "The White Lotus" may have wrapped, but the hit HBO series is still casting a warm glow over resortwear, priming the market for new brands to soak up the residuals. For Raechel Temily of Temily, "it's a serendipitous situation," she said during a walk-through of her debut collection "The Body Electric." It may be a stroke of luck that her breezy chic looks would feel right at home on the cast at The Four Seasons hotel in Ko Samui, which fans have been eager to replicate.
Former Kalita Cofounder Launches Resortwear Brand, Temily

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Ari Stark

The third season of “The White Lotus” may have wrapped, but the hit HBO series is still casting a warm glow over resortwear, priming the market for new brands to soak up the residuals. For Raechel Temily of Temily, “it’s a serendipitous situation,” she while previewing her debut collection “The Body Electric” one week before the final episode aired.
Tanner Fletcher on Shutting Down NYBFW With First Bridal Runway Show

1 month ago | wwd.com | Ari Stark

"We're gonna shut it down," declared Fletcher Kasell, aka the Fletcher in Tanner Fletcher, the Brooklyn-based, gender-fluid fashion brand. He was at their Chelsea studio with his partner in business and life Tanner Richie to give WWD a preview of the spring 2026 bridal collection, which they are presenting on the runway for the first time. "We launched bridal a year ago and we didn't expect it to go over so well," Kasell later admitted.
Tanner Fletcher on Shutting Down NYBFW With First Bridal Runway Show

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Ari Stark

“We’re gonna shut it down,” declared Fletcher Kasell, aka the Fletcher in Tanner Fletcher. He was at the gender-fluid fashion brand’s Chelsea studio with his partner in business and life Tanner Richie giving WWD a preview of their spring 2026 bridal collection, which they’ve decided to bring to the runway for the first time. More from WWDAdvertisement“We launched bridal a year ago and we didn’t expect it to go over so well,” Kasell later admitted.