Katharine K. Zarrella

New York

Fashion Critic-at-Large at Document Journal

Fashion Journalist, Editor, and Critic at Freelance

Yes, I know I have lipstick on my teeth. Document Journal Fashion Critic-at-Large | Writer & Editor | Formerly WSJ, Fashion Unfiltered, V, https://t.co/kvIGZKsC9f, etc.

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Articles

Would You Wear Your Clothes Wonky?

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Katharine K. Zarrella

It wasn’t until after they’d finished their Fall 2025 collection of backward jackets, turned-around trousers, and inverted shirts that Zomer designers Danial Aitouganov and Imruh Asha realized that the clothes so firmly fit into the zeitgeist. “It was subconscious,” said Aitouganov backstage after his Paris show.
Chloé Fall 2025 Honors the Evolution of a Woman’s Wardrobe

1 month ago | wmagazine.com | Katharine K. Zarrella

Photo by Stephane Cardinale - Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images“They looked like clothes that have been handed down through generations,” said the actress Dree Hemingway after Chloé’s fall 2025 show on Thursday. “They’re pieces that I’d want to give to my daughter—heirlooms.” That’s precisely what designer Chemena Kamali, who was appointed creative director at the 73-year-old maison in 2023, was going for with her ethereal, emblematically bohemian new collection.
Critic’s Notebook: Does anyone care about New York Fashion Week?

1 month ago | documentjournal.com | Katharine K. Zarrella

For Document's fashion critic Katharine K. Zarrella, the thrills were few and far between at NYFW 2025. The handful of brands standing out for their authenticity and boldness will have to do, for now. Does anyone care about New York Fashion Week? Should you? Think pieces addressing this very question have flooded fashion websites and news outlets since the Fall 2025 shows wrapped last month. The query has lingered in my mind while watching the London, Milan, and Paris catwalks.
Critic’s Notebook: Fantasy, history, and the question of wearability

2 months ago | documentjournal.com | Katharine K. Zarrella

During Couture Week Spring 2025, fashion critic Katharine K.
Schiaparelli’s flight beyond the sun

2 months ago | documentjournal.com | Katharine K. Zarrella

Inspired by the myth of Icarus, Creative director Daniel Roseberry’s Spring Haute Couture 2025 collection showcases feathers brushed in keratin and gravity-defying silhouettes “We don’t have a robot baby this time,” said Daniel Roseberry backstage after his Spring 2025 Haute Couture show. He didn’t need one.
Lanvin channels Art Deco history for Fall/Winter 2025

2 months ago | documentjournal.com | Katharine K. Zarrella

Newly appointed creative director Peter Copping presents his debut collection at the Parisian luxury brand You could almost hear the collective sigh of relief—and a few elated yelps—when industry folks learned that Peter Copping had been appointed as the new creative director of Lanvin last year. Founded by Jeanne Lanvin in 1889, the French luxury label is the oldest continuously operating couture house in existence.
Armani Privé Couture Fetes 20 Years of Opulence in Paris

2 months ago | wmagazine.com | Katharine K. Zarrella

Photo by Victor VIRGILE/Gamma-Rapho via Getty ImagesArmani Privé celebrated its 20th anniversary in Paris last night. And while the Italian parent brand, helmed by 90-year-old founder Giorgio Armani, is a behemoth with divisions, fragrances, and licensing deals to spare, its haute couture arm lived up to its name.
Obscene Prices, Declining Quality: Luxury Is in a Death Spiral

Dec 19, 2024 | nytimes.com | Katharine K. Zarrella

For those who aren't comfortably in the millionaire class, technology offers a solution. The exploding popularity of financing apps such as Klarna and Afterpay - online lending services that allow users to break payments up into installments - has ushered in a whole new era of buy now, pay later. It's stigma-free layaway for nearly any item. Nobody has to know, and you get the product upfront.
Hermès artistic director Nadège Vanhée’s punk house codes

Nov 13, 2024 | documentjournal.com | Katharine K. Zarrella

The French designer explores her vision for the storied maison in Document’s Fall/Winter 2024–25 issue Nadège Vanhée is a punk. She’s also the artistic director of women’s ready-to-wear at heritage French luxury house Hermès. On the surface, punk and Hermès seem irreconcilable. But they’re less unlikely bedfellows than you might think. Growing up in Northern France, Vanhée listened to The Velvet Underground on repeat. She was equally enamored of their music and their aesthetic.
Thom Browne’s sartorial encyclopedia

Oct 24, 2024 | documentjournal.com | Katharine K. Zarrella

Posted The designer defines the key terms of his fashion lexicon for Document Journal’s Fall/Winter 2024–25 issue Thom Browne is a man of beguiling contradiction. The New York designer exclusively wears his own signature shrunken gray suits. So do all of his employees.