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Luxury fashion brands continue to prove that destination fashion shows are back in full swing, especially European houses making their way to the United States (see Gucci in L.A. and Balenciaga and Alexander McQueen in New York).

As Fendi celebrated it’s 25th anniversary of the infamous baguette. “It was almost like a character,” Jones said at a preview. As Sex & The City quite literally made the bag famous, “So I thought let’s do the show here, and let’s add in a few curveballs as we always do.”

Jones goes on to explain, “I was thinking about when I was first coming to New York and we would go out clubbing.” The collection screams 90’s club kid culture gone high fashion. The mix of utilitarian elements finished with crystal accessories galore. True to club kid culture the fashion house spared no opportunity to layer. Every look that came down the runway featured at least 8 pieces typically consisiting of headwear, top, bottom, layered bottom, leg warmers, and gloves with built-in Baguettes for days. Even baguettes had built-in baguettes.

Photo: Armando Grillo and Filippo / Gorunway.com

Is Marni’s Francesco Risso here, there, or anywhere at all? His SS23 collection sees a vibrant, lucid, color palette inspired by holidaying in his homeland. Clay, rust, red, graphite,roosewood, iris, lapis, and more represent the changing light over the course of the day in the Italian countryside. Showing in New York as he’s been to America about 20x since the border opened. I’ve been wanting to explore for a while,” Risso said. “It means understanding things from a different perspective, connecting with different people. It feels refreshing. There’s a lot of learning as well, and I’m up for that every fucking second.
Travel does more than just broaden the mind, in his view. “I can’t wait to be on the other side of the planet,” he said, “but, also, to see how it can burst the bubbles that we like to create in fashion.” The collection’s giving Hypnotic traveler.

The New York store is divided into two spaces. Sharp geometric details in a white enveloping interior in the front, contrasting with the more subdued atmosphere of the all-mirrored fitting room area in the back. The mirrored ceilings dotted with club grade spotlights evoke a rave ambiance dear to Nicolas Di Felice , and respond to Courrèges’ emblematic white monochrome atmosphere.

The store conceptualized by the. belgian architect Bernard Dubois draws its inspiration from the codes established with Nicolas Di Felice for the historic flagship store Rue François Premier in Paris, which reopened in September 2020.“Bernard has a radicality and an idea of minimalism that I love,” Di Felice says of the architect.

Di Felice makes a point of keeping prices on the accessible side of luxury.“You know, back in the day, André was speaking to the young generation. I knew from my first week that it was part of the house, So I really want young people to be able to afford the clothes; to make it, let’s say, more accessible.”

The Courrèges boutique is located at 104 Grand Street. www.courreges.com

Monse creative director’s Fernando Garcia and Laura Kim are also the creative directors of Oscar de la Renta, and have until now tried to keep Monse’s deconstructive perspective separate from Oscar’s elegance. This season, they blended the two through sporty insouciance. “The undergarments of Oscar became the garments of Monse,” Garcia said.

During COVID, the directors learned about food insecurity in the city, which Kim never even imagined could happen in such a big city. “We had worked with City Harvest before COVID with the Oscar de la Renta team, but I didn’t really understand the important part of it. We wanted to give back to the city that we love; New York City gave us so much, and food is very close to my heart.” Garcia adds, “Since we had a platform of a kind, we decided to use it for what we love the most: food.

For spring, the new fashion label Fetico, designer Emi Funayama found herself drawing inspiration from Izumi Suzuki, the eccentric and angsty, truly unique artist who feeds our love for the bitter world through futuristic sci-fi, short stories. Funayama was particularly fascinated by the writer’s “extreme life full of music, alcohol, sex, and drugs,” so she attempted to imagine the types of clothes the eccentric Suzuki would wear if she were alive today.

The collection featured lingerie inspired assortments; sheer tulle bodices, mesh dresses, and thigh high stockings. Resulting in a a delicate and provacative mixture.

Izumi Suzuki was born in Japan in 1949. After graduating high school, she moved to Tokyo, where she worked as a bar hostess. She appeared in a few “pink films”—an arty subgenre of sexploitation cinema—directed by Kōji Wakamatsu, among others, and posed for the erotic art photographer Nobuyoshi Araki before devoting herself to writing full time.

1. In the Realm of the Senses (Nagisa Oshima, 1976)
2. A Snake of June (Shinya Tsukamoto, 2002)
3. Go, Go Second Time Virgin (Koji Wakamatsu, 1969)
4. A Woman Called Sada Abe (Noboru Tanaka, 1975)
5. Blind Beast (Yasuzo Masumura, 1969)
6. Wife to be Sacrificed (Masaru Konuma, 1974)
7. Nanami, The Inferno of First Love (Susumu Hani, 1968)
8. Empire of Passion (Nagisa Oshima, 1978)
9. Tokyo Decadence (Ryu Murakami, 1992)
10. Manji (Yasuzo Masumura, 1964)

Located in the arid desert of northwestern New Mexico, the Bisti Badlands (formally the Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness) is a BLM-managed area covering 45,000 acres.

Photo credits:
1. Steve Hunt
2. Jeff Clay
3. Derrick Kosea
4. Erik Kuna,
5. Mike Mercer
6. Volodymyr Matsenko
7. Sasa Lin
8. William Frohne
9. Ryan Palmer
10. Wayne Pinkston
11. Peter Holcombe
12. Lauren Thompson
13. Rob Phillips
14. Royce Bair

STAND STUDIO’s Nellie Kamras imaginatively set out for Sunset Boulevard for her upbeat spring collection. “We’re still in the L.A. type of world,” said the designer in her Stockholm studio

The designer cited the photographer Nadia Lee Cohen, British artist, photographer, and filmmaker who works inside popular culture, citing inspiration from cinema, commercials, and consumerism, as one of her references. The inspiration and reference came to life in mini mottos, slouchy pseudo suits, fabulous faux fur, and retro sets – V Nadia / Sunset Blvd. The playful collection was giving duality between wearable ‘effortfull’ chic and day-to-day wear reflective of the brand’s DNA.

Photographer: Hedvig Jenning
Concept and Styling: Naomi Itkes
Art Director: Julia Sletbakk
Set Design: Guldfabriken Studio
Make-up: Regina Törnwall
Hair: Kasper Andersen
Models: Ingrid Ihse & Kattis Nseke

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