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Faustine Steinmetz’s Jeans on Acid at London Fashion Week
For many designers, the lingering tension between art and commerce creates a turmoil that can be a powerful fuel. Settling and calming the contrast can be liberating though, and “free” might be the...
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SPACE Brand Molly Goddard Returns to Teenage Club Years, Brings Individuality...
“I guess I was feeling quite nostalgic for my teenage years,” Molly Goddard tells me. We’re upstairs in one of the oldest pubs in SoHo, the neighborhood in which she spent those years—or at least the...
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Looking at Trends So Far with Olivia Kim and SPACE Brands Roksanda &...
As our sleek black van pulled away from Roksanda‘s Monday morning London Fashion Week presentation, Olivia Kim did something I don’t always see her do; she took out a notebook and pen and started...
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Isa Arfen’s Raw and Delicate Bare-Shoulder Theater at London Fashion Week
It started with the set. Sometimes you walk into a presentation, or you see the runway before the show begins, and you’re just charmed. This was one of those times. Upon walking up four flights of old...
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Get to Know a Marques’Almeida Real Girl—and the London Brand’s Spring Collection
“I’m quite obsessed about girls on Instagram … how girls see themselves and what they want to give us from their life, how they choose to be seen.” This statement, from the program notes we found on...
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Getting Into Gingham with Toga—and Almost Everyone Else—at London Fashion Week
Micro trend alert: Gingham. London is alive with it; it’s all but bombarded us since we arrived. We saw it at Shrimps, Simone Rocha and Molly Goddard … and then, on Tuesday morning at Toga. All...
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SPACE Brand PASKAL’s Neon Ruffles and Laser Cutouts at Paris Fashion Week
There are several things we’ve come to count on from Kiev-based Julie Paskal: laser-cut details, a strong sense of color and a bridge between old-world tradition and the modern nightclub setting, to...
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SPACE Brand Vejas: Making Waves at Paris Fashion Week
One of the best things about Fashion Week, no matter the city, is connecting with emerging brands on their way up. The first few collections of any one career become its foundation, after all. In the...
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Giant Ruffles and Even Bigger Hats: Jacquemus at Paris Fashion Week
Walking into the Jacquemus show back on the first day of Paris Fashion Week, I had a sort of flashback to the designer’s presentation one year prior, in which a white horse and small children with...
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Fashion Party People: Nordstrom Designer Preview and Follow-Up Trunk Sale
The earrings, the coats, the pink tweed, the grassy greens. The slinky dresses, the bold silver jewels. The slouchy trousers, the gowns. The shoes! And not just the ones on the runway, either—the...
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The Future Is Now: Our Fall Lookbook and Video, Curated by Jeffrey Kalinsky
Jeffrey Kalinsky has been thinking about the future. In fact, he’s almost always thinking about the future—whether that means next season’s outsized silhouettes and gauzy layers, or, you know, that...
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What Our SPACE Buyer Is Bringing to London Fashion Week
There are a couple colleagues we rely on to clue us in to the hottest trends and tastes. Raul Becerra happens to be foremost among them. As a Nordstrom buyer, he uncovers up-and-coming fashions for...
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Model of the Moment Mia Rae on Big Breaks & Favorite Things
On the day we met emerging model Mia Rae at Nordstrom’s Lower Manhattan photo studio, she had just been Instagrammed by Wmag due to a co-starring role in a killer new online profile on hot new...
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Gingham, Wellies and Very Strong Women: Simone Rocha Takes Us to the Farm
When Simone Rocha presented her current fall collection six months ago during the last London Fashion Week, she was very honest with everyone about where her head was at. She had just had her first...
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Where Olivia Kim Eats During Paris Fashion Week
As discussed last season, Olivia Kim is a lunch person. Today I suggested that I had been with her a time or two when we didn’t quite have time to stop for lunch and both she and SPACE buyer Raul...
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SPACE Brand Koché: Feathers, Sequins and the Walk of Life at Paris Fashion Week
When Chloé alum and current CHANEL atelier artistic director Christelle Kocher debuted her own brand, Koché, one year ago, she did it in the subbasement of Forum des Halles, a shopping mall that...
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No Vetements Show This Paris Fashion Week, So They Released a Book Instead
If you’re waiting for a Vetements post this week, you probably missed the news that the cult brand switched up the schedule and showed earlier this summer, during Couture Week. Demna Gvasalia and...
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What SPACE Designer Kym Ellery Was Doing 4 Days Before Her Paris Fashion Week...
It’s Saturday evening on a quiet street along the Seine, and inside the grand old Haussmann-era flat where we’ve been asked to find Australia-based designer Kym Ellery and her team, “24 Hour Party...
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SPACE Brand Undercover Does The Great Gatsby at Paris Fashion Week
Undercover founder and creative head Jun Takahashi is good with a theme. Who can forget last year’s Rock and Roll Circus or the current season’s Snow White vibe? Spring 2017 has a musical note too—but...
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Mira Mikati Is Paris Fashion Week’s Happiest Brand
To say it was nice timing is sort of an understatement. London-based Mira Mikati shared her spring collection on Tuesday; for some, if not most, it was the last day of Paris Fashion Week. Which means...
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