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1 week ago | 
wwd.com | Ari Stark |Thomas Waller |James Manso
If you ask Vince designer Caroline Belhumeur where she drew inspiration for her resort collection, it's not a sunny answer. "I started with the color palette. A friend of mine had gone to Antarctica and had taken photos of icebergs and the sea. It was so intense and stormy," she told WWD. "It's bluey-green colors, and black.
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2 weeks ago | 
wwd.com | Ari Stark
Pamella Roland Resort 2026: Newport, R.I.Rhode Island's historic homes built by the Vanderbilts, Astors and their ilk laid the foundation for Pamella Roland's ode to Gilded Age opulence. The look: Old-money Newport "trad wife"Quote of note: "The resort collection captures the affluence and coastal charm that characterized America's original summer elite, blending historical richness with modern refinement," Roland said in an email.
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2 weeks ago | 
yahoo.com | Ari Stark
Trish Wescoat Pound is a merchant’s designer, seeing her clothes off the runway (or in the case of pre-seasons, the look book), all the way to the shop floor. Luckily it’s not a far distance to go as TWP’s SoHo showroom is just a few levels up from her store, a sign of the strong rapport Pound has with her customers. “Now that we have stores, I’m like a nerd,” she joked during a visit.
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3 weeks ago | 
wwd.com | Ari Stark
Monique Lhuillier's got a wild streak. For spring, the doyenne of all things pretty and prim worked leopard spots into her formalwear for the first time. And she didn't stop there - pieced metal accents featured as well, calling to mind Gianni Versace's iconic safety pin collection from 1994. "I wanted to introduce a bold contrast to our signature romanticism," the designer explained via email.
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3 weeks ago | 
wwd.com | Ari Stark
From Chanel in Lake Como to Gucci in Florence and Dior in the Eternal City, cinematic Italian style is coming into focus for resort 2026. Silvia Tcherassi may not have hopped on the bandwagon with a roaming show like those brands, but she still got into the trend by zeroing in on Naples, as seen through the lens of director Paolo Sorrentino. "The mood of his films, they're so chic, so elegant," the Colombian designer said during a collection preview.
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4 weeks ago | 
wwd.com | Ari Stark
High-octane fashion week displays have become Sally LaPointe's thing recently. On the occasion of her brand's 15th anniversary last fall, she invited fans to root for her courtside at the National Basketball Players Association, presenting them with a show that included its own halftime dance performance. So what does she make of the much humbler pre-seasons? During a resort preview, LaPointe described them as her own kind of halftime in which she plays the athlete, recharging her creative muscles.
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1 month ago | 
wwd.com | Ari Stark
Before Barneys New York went belly up in 2019, what aspiring designer didn't dream about making it inside its hallowed marble corridors? But the department store's name - now the intellectual property of Authentic Brands Group - still conjures everything on the cutting-edge of fashion. This year's Parsons grads might have missed their chance to sell at Barneys, but they did technically get inside Monday night at the former Chelsea flagship, which served as their 2025 BFA show venue.
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1 month ago | 
wwd.com | Jean E. Palmieri |Hikmat Mohammed |Martino Carrera |Ari Stark
Every May, the Met Gala catapults fashion into the stratosphere as celebrities by the score turn out in their finest - and often outrageous - haute couture outfits at the annual fundraiser for the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute. For the first time, this year's gala and its accompanying exhibition turned the spotlight on menswear, notably Black menswear.
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1 month ago | 
yahoo.com | Jean E. Palmieri |Hikmat Mohammed |Martino Carrera |Ari Stark
Every May, the Met Gala catapults fashion into the stratosphere as celebrities by the score turn out in their finest — and often outrageous — haute couture outfits at the annual fundraiser for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute. For the first time, this year’s gala and its accompanying exhibition turned the spotlight on menswear, notably Black menswear.
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1 month 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.
