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Who knew that a simple graphic T-shirt could tug on your heartstrings? 6397’s pre-fall offering, pared down to the essentials, features a tee printed in all caps: “I want to hold your hand.” In a time of lockdowns, closed borders, and social distancing, the simple act of thinking about touching a loved one—let alone doing it—can be a tearjerker. Another tee reads, “Do you feel like I do?” The emotion of these slogans is amplified by the humanness of Stella Ishii’s project. Her s...

Jenny Packham Pre-Fall 2021 collection, runway looks, beauty, models, and reviews.

Elie Saab Pre-Fall 2021 collection, runway looks, beauty, models, and reviews.

Giambattista Valli Pre-Fall 2021 collection, runway looks, beauty, models, and reviews.

Here’s Jonathan Anderson walking along an edge where there’s hyper-awareness on one side, and something quite bonkers on the other. “I felt it was better to start the year with something lighter and less calculated,” he declared on a Zoom. “At the beginning of 2021 I wanted something that’s reality. A reality check.” Reality? Well, now that reality’s gone mad, the hilarious antics going on in Anderson’s new set of posters are a reasonable enough response to the zeitgeist. The...

Thom Browne Pre-Fall 2021 collection, runway looks, beauty, models, and reviews.

Burberry Pre-Fall 2021 collection, runway looks, beauty, models, and reviews.

The Crown was one of the biggest fashion happenings of 2020, ten bingeable episodes of escapist excess just when we needed it most. Princess Diana’s shoulder pads and black-sheep sweater beguiled a new generation, and the actress who plays her, Emma Corrin, became a red carpet darling—a virtual red carpet darling, that is—in her Miu Miu looks.  Philosophy’s Lorenzo Serafini said he found himself captivated by another royal, Diana’s antagonistic sister-in-law, Princess Anne, though it...

“It rained so much in Sardinia this winter that the land, which is usually dry and windy, turned green and lush as in Ireland,” said Antonio Marras over a Zoom call from his Circolo Marras headquarters in Milan. The bizarre weather triggered his raconteur talent, so for pre-fall he came up with an idiosyncratic literary plot. It entailed a moody mixture of Thomas Hardy, Lewis Carroll and Virginia Wolf, all entangled in a surreal bookish narration, with a sort of Sardinian version of Bloomsb...

David Koma Pre-Fall 2021 collection, runway looks, beauty, models, and reviews.