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FW22: the top five trends store buyers need to know from NYFW

At the Fall/Winter 2022 New York ready-to-wear collections, a post-pandemic energy surrounded the newer designers and included many fresh looks from more established brands. In sum there was a rejection of the past two years of comfort dressing, while still offering lots of commercial possibilities. Here are the top five trends store buyers...

24 Feb 2022

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Marc Jacobs closes NYFW via WeTransfer

Marc Jacobs, who has been closing New York Fashion Week for several seasons now, was noticeably absent from the recent New York Fashion Week Calendar. Most assumed he was just taking a break this season and would eventually make a comeback. Rather than opting for a physical show or formerly announcing a digital show, Marc Jacobs presented the...

18 Feb 2022

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3 Korean designers paving the way at NYFW

Korean designers have been turning heads at many a fashion week over the past few seasons and New York was no exception. Fashion collective Concept Korea returned for the AW22 season, spotlighting a selection of top emerging Korean designers through the global fashion event. The programme, hosted by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism...

18 Feb 2022

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New York fashion week 2022 trends

As both consumers and designers emerge from the pandemic, new mindsets are forming around fashion. Collections that focused on personality and individuality, the real lives of their audiences, and their wants and needs introduced a winning combination of both practicality, functionality and versatility, and an expressive, playful, creative...

18 Feb 2022

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NYFW FW22: Womenswear roundup

Alas, New York Fashion Week has come to a close. What was expected to be a lackluster NYFW with marquee designers like Tom Ford, Ralph Lauren, Tommy Hilfiger, and Thom Browne missing, turned out to be pleasantly surprising. Top-tier designers, like Carolina Herrera and Michael Kors, managed to provide that expected level of heritage glamour we’...

18 Feb 2022

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In Pictures: Bibhu Mohapatra at New York Fashion Week

Bibhu Mohapatra found inspiration from Elektra, the famous one-act opera by Richard Strauss based on Sophocles’ tragedy Electra. Electra was a powerful female figure and a seeker of justice, so Mohapatra wanted to create a collection for the powerful modern woman. Romanticism was a theme seen throughout the collection with dramatic, embellished...

17 Feb 2022

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Are the NYFW runways a sign New York's fashion economy is rebounding?

Call it a comeback, or at least New York’s fashion industry is hoping so. According to NYCEDC, the fashion industry employs 4.6 percent of the city’s private sector workforce. New York City has long been synonymous with fashion, from the history of the garment district to New York Fashion Week. With a second season of in-person Fashion Week back...

16 Feb 2022

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NYFW: What we want from this decade of fashion

The times are changing. In the immortal words of Coco Chanel, fashion must at once become a caterpillar and a butterfly. After the second season of Fashion Month back in full effect, even though a surge in the Omicron variant had the fashion industry on edge for a bit, New York Fashion Week kicked off fall/winter 2022 fashion month with a bang....

16 Feb 2022

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Key NYMD Takeaways from Manufacturing to Masculinity

New York Fashion Week commenced with the bi-annual showcase of emerging menswear designers at New York Men’s Day (NYMD), now in its 17th season of introducing new talent to the city’s veteran fashion community. One such veteran, Perry Ellis, relaunched its Perry Ellis America label at the show, alongside eight up-and-coming brands that were also...

15 Feb 2022

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NYFW Fall/Winter 2022: Newcomers pushing sustainable fashion

Two years after losing her job in fashion due to the pandemic, Emma Gage founded her own brand, Melke, that debuted at this season's New York Fashion Week with an emphasis on sustainability. The 26-year-old from Minnesota is not the first to bet on this trend, at a moment when the fashion industry has faced criticism for its environmental...

15 Feb 2022

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Neutrals no more at New York Fashion Week fall/winter 2022

Fall/winter at New York Fashion Week has traditionally been dominated by neutral colors. This time around, with designers working on designing for a world emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic, a world of color was found on the runways at NYFW. Starting with the menswear shows, color was abundant. Designers are opting for bold, bright colors for...

14 Feb 2022

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NYFW FW22 kicks off despite pandemic

Experimentation, play, and glitter: a coronavirus-impacted New York Fashion Week got underway Friday with Fall/Winter 2022 shows by Proenza Schouler and Christian Cowan. In its collection, presented in an art gallery in Manhattan's trendy East Village, New York brand Proenza Schouler played with shape, contrasting fitted waists with loose or...

14 Feb 2022