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Naomi Sims was more than a model — she was a trailblazer who redefined beauty standards and opened doors for Black women in the fashion and beauty industries. Often credited as the first Black supermodel, she became the face of change in the 1960s and 1970s, breaking racial barriers in high fashion. Beyond modeling, she built a successful business empire, proving that representation and entrepreneurship could go hand in hand. Born in Mississippi in1948, Naomi Sims faced adver

For Fall/Winter 26/27, Paul Smith brought British sartorial charm laced with irreverent wit to Milan Fashion Week, presenting a menswear collection that felt both reflective of the brand’s rich history and refreshingly playful in its reinvention. In a salon-style show hosted at the brand’s Italian headquarters, Smith’s deeply personal curatorial voice — amplified by his longtime collaborator and new Head of Men’s Design, Sam Cotton — transformed the runway into a storytelling

Lessico Familiare arrived at Milan Fashion Week with a manifesto of intimate identity and wardrobe memory, presenting a Fall/Winter 26/27 menswear collection that felt like a quiet narrative stitched from the threads of everyday life and inner contemplation. Rather than dramatize the runway with overt spectacle, the brand — showing this season at Istituto Marangoni’s headquarters — chose to mediate the act of dressing as a personal ritual, one that bridges introspection with

Pronounce’s Fall/Winter 26/27 menswear collection at Milan Fashion Week was one of the season’s most architecturally insightful and contemplatively refined statements — a collection that feels simultaneously rooted in heritage and propelled by future-facing design logic. The duo behind the brand, Yushan Li and Jun Zhou, harnessed the dramatic legacy of the Yingxian Wooden Pagoda in Shanxi Province as their guiding inspiration — an ancient wooden marvel built without nails who

At Milan Fashion Week, Dolce & Gabbana returned with “The Portrait of Man” — a menswear collection that read as a gallery of identities rather than a monolithic uniform. Conceived as a sartorial manifesto celebrating individuality over conformity, the show unfolded as a series of lived-in archetypes: the thinker, the visionary, the Mediterranean sensualist, the structural rationalist, and the romantic idealist, each rendered through silhouette, fabric, and gesture. From the o

Elizabeth Keckley’s life is a remarkable testament to resilience, talent, and determination. Born into slavery, she sued her extraordinary skills as a seamstress to buy her freedom and became the personal dressmaker and confidante of First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln. Beyond fashion, Keckley was an author, educator, and activist who dedicated herself to uplifting newly freed Black Americans. Her story is one of triumph’s against adversity and lasting influence in both fashion and

At Milan Fashion Week, Setchu — the Japanese-born label helmed by Satoshi Kuwata — delivered one of the season’s most intellectually inventive and quietly profound menswear statements. Far from conventional runway storytelling, the collection felt like a meditation on ingenuity shaped by nature and survival, a philosophy distilled from Kuwata’s personal journeys and his deep engagement with vestimentary architecture. For FW26/27, Setchu’s inspiration came from the stark lands

Dsquared2 brought winter sport swagger and pop-cultural bravado to Milan Fashion Week with a Fall/Winter 26/27 menswear collection that felt like a celebration of speed, cold-weather fantasy, and unapologetic energy — all filtered through the brand’s signature Canadian-born irreverence and theatrical vernacular. From the very first look, designers Dean and Dan Caten turned the runway into a snow-sculpted alpine fantasy, a nod to the upcoming Winter Olympics that served as bot

With his Fall/Winter 26/27 menswear presentation in Milan, Ralph Lauren orchestrated not just a runway show, but a lived-in anthology of American style — a vivid retelling of a sartorial language that’s both beloved and culturally elastic. Marking only the house’s third all-menswear runway this century, the brand returned with a symphony of narratives that wove Polo’s spirited prep roots with the stately precision of Purple Label tailorcraft. Right from the opening looks, the

For Fall/Winter 26/27, Zegna reaffirmed its place as a quiet visionary of masculine wardrobe craft, presenting a collection that feels like a lived wardrobe rather than a seasonal spectacle. Under the steady hand of Artistic Director Alessandro Sartori, the house grounded its Paris narrative in memory, inheritance, and sartorial longevity . This conceptual refrain speaks as much to emotional continuity as to fabric and form. The collection’s conceptual backbone was drawn from

Meryll Rogge's Spring/Summer 2026 collection closed Paris Fashion Week with a bright wink rather than a roar—a show that feels like an invitation: to mix, to dare, to carry fragments of fantasy into everyday life. Rogge, now juggling her own label, a new knitwear line (B.B. Wallace), and her role as Creative Director at Marni, seems to have used this season to lean into freedom. The driving impulse? "Lightness" in mood, in silhouette, in spirit. The collection delighted in co

Pierre Cardin enters Spring/Summer 2026 under the stewardship of Rodrigo Basilicati-Cardin, in what feels like a deliberate turning of the page—holding onto legacy, but facing forward. The house, founded in 1953, has long been associated with futurism, bold geometry, and space-age aesthetics; for SS26, those impulses still ripple, but are filtered through a lens of sustainability, wearability, and modern minimalism. The collection suggests a desire to reconcile Pierre Cardin'

Ujoh's SS26 collection arrives feeling like a day spent sliding between port and promenade—less a fantasy island, more a carefully worn urban summer. Under Mitsuru and Aco Nishizaki, Ujoh upholds its commitment to sharp tailoring and clean lines, while imbuing the wardrobe with breezy, sailing references. The brand continues to "bring a breath of fresh air to the art of tailoring" and "deliberately breaks conventions with bold, asymmetrical cuts." In the show, these impulses

For its VOL. 11 chapter, CFCL's SS26 collection feels like a meditation on material, transparency, and form. The show positions clothing not as costume, but as a presence in space-objects that live, breathe, and shift with light. CFCL builds on its guiding philosophy of Knit-ware: Concreteness-borrowing from sculptural practice, from transparency, from craft-not to decorate, but to inhabit. The show's presentation, the rhythm of pieces moving under soft lighting, accentuates

DIDU, led by Du Di and trained at Antwerp's Royal Academy of Fine Arts, enters its Spring/Summer 2026 offering with a voice that merges sensuality, sharp tailoring, and cultural hybridity. The house's signature is clean silhouettes infused with audacious cuts and body-conscious forms; SS26 seems less about spectacle and more about distilling what makes its identity powerful: empowerment, vulnerability, structured femininity. While explicit visuals or detailed reviews are spar

Sydney-based Christopher Esber opens SS26 with a yearning not for drama, but for release. The collection is an "ode to wanderlust," inspired by the tension between daily office life and the pull of faraway shores. Esber disassembles formalwear, letting structure fray, hems rip, and drape replace rigidity. The women in his clothes aren't celebrities on red carpets—they’re daydreamers in cubicles, beach towels slung over shoulders, longing for sun, looseness, ease. He starts st

For SS26, Kiko Kostadinov stages a narrative less flashy than some past shows, but richer in texture, emotion, and subtle complexity. Costumes here are not costumes: they're garments meant to be lived in. The runway is treated like time itself—a single day unfolding on a secluded, fictional island. From dawn's gentle light through midday labor to the cloak of night, each look corresponds to an hour, each material shift marking passing sun. Lighting, mood, pace all serve this

Xuly.Bet returns in SS26 not with a quiet whisper but with a quiet conviction. Long known for its underground, subcultural energy and fabric re-use ethos, this season's show felt like a rebirth: less about shock, more about resonance, rhythm, and identity. Kouyaté steps into a place of storytelling—where each look carries both archive and aspiration, memory and possibility. The finale—models dancing in the center of the runway, joined by Kouyaté himself—felt less spectacle t

With Spring/Summer 2026, Chanel, under new artistic director Matthieu Blazy, stages what feels like both a tribute and a metamorphosis. The collection was presented under a dome in the Grand Palais, beneath giant celestial bodies, reinforcing a theme that horizons, stars, and sky are not just visual motifs but emotional frames. Blazy's goal wasn't to upend Chanel's legacy, but to read it closely—to glean from it what can be lighter, looser, more universal, more lived-in. The

If SS26 has a mood, it is one of paradox: public display colliding with private ritual. For her latest delivery, Paula Cánovas del Vas didn't just release a collection—she staged a performance of intimacy in public. Her set was a tiled bathroom (a dropside truck converted into one), parked outside Café de la Mairie in the Upper Marais. Models performed moments usually kept behind doors—brushing teeth, resting on a closed toilet, preparing for the day—before stepping into the