Nearly a year after being the guest designer at Pitti Uomo in Florence, where he presented his first ERL runway show, Eli Russell Linnetz is looking closer to home for the next phase of growth for his brand ERL. Thursday, the Venice Beach, Calif.-based Linnetz is launching his e-commerce site with a new made-in-California collection. … Read more
In January, Pharrell Williams, the singer turned men’s creative director of Louis Vuitton, transformed the label’s Paris men’s fashion week catwalk into a giant pop-up box reminiscent of a barren desert. Pharrell Williams walks the runway during the Louis Vuitton Menswear autumn/winter 2024-25 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on January 16, 2024. Photo: … Read more
New York Men’s Day (NYMD), the biannual showcase for emerging men’s and genderless brands, is now accepting applications for the spring 2025 season. The presentations are slated for Sept. 6, during New York Fashion Week. NYMD will feature 10 to 12 designers, each of whom will present in an individual studio space during either a morning or afternoon session. Designers who are selected … Read more
At some of Europe’s big luxury houses, menswear and womenswear closely mirror each other. Not necessarily at Saint Laurent, where Anthony Vaccarello bookended Paris Fashion Week with his fall women’s and men’s shows. The former will be remembered for freeing the nipple with its radical dedication to sheer hosiery materials draped around the body; the … Read more
All eyes are on Travis Kelce (and his companion Taylor Swift, of course) on Sunday for the 2024 Super Bowl in Las Vegas. And for his much-watched tunnel walk, he worked with designer Mike Amiri for a custom look. “Travis is wearing a silhouette from our spring 2024 collection that we reworked to reference the … Read more
New York Fashion Week officially kicks off Friday, and Willy Chavarria is the talk of the town. You can feel it in the energy at his Greenpoint studio, where he’s prepping for his show Friday night — it is his time. With gender-blending at his core, Chavarria is conflicted about launching a separate womenswear collection, … Read more
Unlike Jeremy Allen White, who stripped to his underwear for Calvin Klein, Idris Elba kept his clothes on. In the second installment of its spring 2024 campaign, the fashion brand tapped the actor and musician to appear in its ads. White starred in the first installment. This marks Elba’s first appearance for Calvin Klein. In … Read more
If you’ve ever attended a coed fashion show and felt that the womenswear overshadowed the menswear, you’re not alone. That’s one reason Olivier Rousteing is giving back Balmain‘s men’s collection its own spotlight with a dedicated show on Saturday during Men’s Fashion Week in Paris. “Also, sometimes the men’s buyers are not coming during women’s … Read more
Philipp Plein packed out the bar at the Principe di Savoia hotel for his fall Billionaire show, compelling some guests to sit on speakers or stand in front of the live, five-piece rock band, Alessandro Ristori & The Portofinos, whose mesmerizing frontman swings his hips like Elvis once did. The retro music and the swanky, formal … Read more
A quick straw poll after Dsquared2’s hoot of a fall show indicated that most people in the audience didn’t notice that the show was cast entirely with identical twins. “That’s so 2022,” sniffed one spectator, no doubt referring to Gucci’s “Twinsburg” spectacle for spring 2023. Point taken, but surely Dean and Dan Caten, identical Canadian … Read more
