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Fashion Week

Architectural Precision

Narciso Rodriguez's collection was a highly charged confrontation between rough and smooth, casual and polished.


Fashion Week

All About The Mix

Michael Kors' new collection had a schizophrenic quality — just the way he wanted it.


Financial Markets

Nicola Formichetti Reveals Nicopanda Expansion Plans

Armed with funding from investors including Agent Provocateur co-founder Serena Rees and CAA, Formichetti and business partner Kevin Kollenda share their plan to create the 'punk Hello Kitty.'


Fashion Week

Don't Fence Her In

Vera Wang looked to traditional fencing whites — with some help from the artists Alberto Giacometti and Amedeo Modigliani — to inform her Autumn collection.


Fashion Week

Fashion Francophilia

Tory Burch​'s chic collection​ for Autumn drew inspiration from fashion in the streets of Paris, circa 1972.


Fashion Week

The Puck Stops Here

Stuart Vevers turns out another exuberant collection, this one inspired by the 1980s hockey film Youngblood. But a Coach 'It-bag' eludes him.


Marketing

Ed Filipowski, Fashion Catalyst

The co-president of fashion PR powerhouse KCD talks exclusively to BoF about public relations in the digital age and the firm’s new entertainment and tech division.


Fashion Week

The Fashionable and the Functional

Inspired by photographer Berenice Abbott’s functional garb, Walker added accents of her own prosaic glamour.


Fashion Week

At NYFW, Different Faces of Female Empowerment

The resurgence of feminist spirit in society — the so-called 'fourth wave' — was evident at DVF, Karen Walker and Zero Maria Cornejo.


Fashion Week

All Aboard at Tommy Hilfiger

Tommy Hilfiger took us on an old-fashioned, 1940s-inspired cruise, but the theme was too heavy an anchor


Fashion Week

Phillip Lim Visits the Land of the Rising Sun

'Japonisme' is a well-worn theme, though Phillip Lim approached it with a steady hand.


Fashion Week

Thom Browne: Fashion’s Dr Frankenstein

Browne stitched garments together or took them apart to create something completely other.