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Rag & Bone Pre-Fall 2026 Menswear Collection
For pre-fall 2026, the Rag & Bone team had prep on the brain. Kyle Sweeney, the Senior VP of Menswear, explained that they were focused on the “evolution of traditional American Ivy wear.” He continued, “we looked at the idea of this urban prep, but in a very sophisticated lens through the eyes of New York City. We focused on the idea of this modern uniform and the fact that every great uniform starts with a great shirt.” Shirting this season included new details—oxford button-downs came with stamped graphics on the front placket for an edgier and youthful touch while also featuring more relaxed silhouettes. They were paired with boxy…
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ERL Pre-Fall 2025 Collection | Vogue
Eli Russell Linnetz has made a sharp swerve. After some time focusing on boy-next-door prep—khaki bermudas, old-school cotton boxers, popped-collar polo shirts—Linnetz is drifting into another key pocket of Americana: the freewheeling tradition of the motorcycle rider. Think Marlon Brando in The Wild One with a whiff of ’90s grunge and a splash of Tom of Finland. For those in need of more contemporary references: Imagine Austin Butler’s character in The Bikeriders hanging out in Venice Beach today. All this to say—it’s grubby, sexy, and pretty cool. “I guess I was just feeling super angsty after doing so much preppy stuff,” offered Linnetz. He was just ahead of the curve…
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Carven Pre-Fall 2025 Collection | Vogue
Glance at this collection, which is officially credited to the Carven studio, and you would be hard-pressed to detect where Louise Trotter’s vision ends, and incoming director of design Mark Thomas’s begins. From the lookbook’s opening trench coat with its soft gray underside to the crisp tuxedo shirt and tuxedo skirt further down, this transition moment appears like a well-considered articulation in continuity. Anyone who has been drawn to the brand since Trotter’s arrival in 2023 (with Thomas as her senior designer) will appreciate how these latest streamlined yet sophisticated silhouettes merge with previous seasons. Of course, it never hurts to inject a touch of inspiration, which comes in the…
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Simon Miller Pre-Fall 2025 Collection
The Simon Miller girl is growing up. While Chelsea Hansford has always envisioned her customer as a working creative, she has spent the last several years tailoring the brand’s look to mid-career professionals. “We’ve been honing in on our audience that’s a little older—thirties, forties,” she said. “She’s an interior designer, she’s an artist, she’s a gallerist, she’s a businesswoman, the founder of VC.” Hansford is catering to her audience of free-spirited venture capitalists and gallerinas with an expansion of suiting and poplin pieces. Perhaps the biggest boon for business: this season, for the first time, Simon Miller is offering a sleeveless version of its staple Lock top, a poplin…
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Cult Gaia Pre-Fall 2025 Collection
As a designer, it can be challenging to keep up with the relentless need for newness every season—so rather than reinventing the wheel for pre-fall, designer Jasmin Larian Hekmat looked to the things she does best—easy-breezy vacation staples that can also be worn year-round—to help drive her collection forward. “This season, we really doubled down on our brand DNA and what makes Cult Gaia what it is,” she said. “But we also introduced some new things.” This time around, her getaway-ready mini dresses were hand-crocheted in white, and done in butter-yellow plissés with knotted detailing. Her more formal creations, like a black Grecian gown with cutouts and brass detailing, retained…
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Saint Laurent Pre-Fall 2025 Collection
Should you ever need a quick musical pick me up, I can highly recommend watching the divine Françoise Hardy perform her fabbo 1966 song Je changerais d’avis on YouTube. It’s totally her, a wonderfully rousing symphonic number. And then there’s the performance itself, all shiny Pop Art jackets and that blunt-banged, straight-shanked hair of hers blowing (via wind machine) whenever the chorus kicks in. Back in 1966, pop belonged to the US and the UK, but along came Hardy, putting French music—and more specifically, French women vocalists—on the map, not to mention that iconically lanky, androgynous look of hers which lives on to this day. Yet 1966 is also notable…
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Alexander Wang Pre-Fall 2025 Collection
Few designers are more closely associated with downtown New York than Alexander Wang. He made his name with his model-off-duty stylings of the ’00s and opened his first store on the corner of Grand and Mercer in 2011. This season, though, we returned to his native California with a beach punks collection of sun-washed plaids, spliced tanks, shredded denim, and scuba pieces. He claimed the 20th anniversary of his label as a reason for the callback. It wasn’t all sunshine and rainbows, for sure, but the scuba gave the collection a sporty, fitness-first sort of vibe that distinguished it from the more dissipated sensibility of some of his recent outings,…
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Thom Browne Pre-Fall 2025 Collection
Did anybody have as big a night at the Met Gala as Thom Browne? The designer dressed 21 guests in one-off creations—Demi Moore, Zoe Saldana, Lorde, Janelle Monae, and Nicki Minaj, among them. “It’s almost like a mini couture collection,” Browne said a few days after the festivities. We were Zooming about pre-fall, an offering that encompasses the other end of his business: the essential Thom Browne. Like the fall collection, which was shown back in February but will arrive in stores, including new outposts in Palm Beach and Los Angeles, after this one, pre-fall emphasizes the wearability of Browne’s clothes. At the Met, Moore donned a sculptural gown in…
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Sachin & Babi Pre-Fall 2025 Collection
What to make of the year in fashion thus far? Political turmoil, tariffs, a looming recession—you name it, our collective preoccupations seem to be anywhere but the industry. Nonetheless, designers are chugging along, building collections that speak to our everyday lives and a pursuit of normalcy in the face of, well, everything else. “We’re here in this crazy time trying to sell beautiful things,” offered Babi Ahluwalia of Sachin & Babi’s pre-fall collection. In this delivery, that idea translated into linen and soft organza gowns in classic shapes and vibrant summer florals. The lineup’s most novel pieces were a column gown and a shorter shift with broderie anglaise detailing, while…
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Thom Browne Pre-Fall 2025 Menswear Collection
Did anybody have as big a night at the Met Gala as Thom Browne? The designer dressed 21 guests in one-off creations—Demi Moore, Zoe Saldana, Lorde, Janelle Monae, and Nicki Minaj, among them. “It’s almost like a mini couture collection,” Browne said a few days after the festivities. We were Zooming about pre-fall, an offering that encompasses the other end of his business: the essential Thom Browne. Like the fall collection, which was shown back in February but will arrive in stores, including new outposts in Palm Beach and Los Angeles, after this one, pre-fall emphasizes the wearability of Browne’s clothes. At the Met, Moore donned a sculptural gown in…
