Browsing Category Mens Fashion 2015-16

ZERO + MARIA CORNEJO AW15'16 READY-TO-WEAR NEW YORK FASHION WEEK Some designers pay actresses to wear their clothes on the red carpet. The basic rule is, the bigger the brand, the bigger the payday. A designer like Maria Cornejo, who operates without an international conglomerate at her back, doesn't have the budget for such things. ...

REEM ACRA AW15'16 READY-TO-WEAR NEW YORK FASHION WEEK For designers like Reem Acra, fashion week might've fallen a little too close to the Oscars this year. (The awards season's defining red carpet will be rolled out this Sunday.) Acra's Fall dresses were already on a plane to Los Angeles just hours after her Monday night runway ...

VIVIENNE TAM AW15'16 READY-TO-WEAR NEW YORK FASHION WEEK Chinese-born designer Vivienne Tam is known for her East-meets-West aesthetic, and it feels particularly relevant right now with the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute exhibition China: Through the Looking Glass set to open this spring. Tam's Fall collection was inspired by chinoiserie—the European impression of China in ...

ZAC POSEN AW15'16 READY-TO-WEAR NEW YORK FASHION WEEK Half the point of a Zac Posen show is the spectacle. This time around he took over Grand Central's grand Vanderbilt Hall (thankfully, on a holiday, or imagine the commuter outrage), then added an appearance by a positively ladylike-looking Rihanna (where's the fun in that?). The show ...

VERONICA BEARD AW15'16 READY-TO-WEAR NEW YORK FASHION WEEK With an endless flurry of winter storms disrupting New York fashion week this season, everyone has escape on the brain. ("Where are you getting away after the craziness ends?" has one-upped "Can you believe this weather?" in the way of preshow small talk.) Sisters-in-law Veronica Swanson Beard and ...

LIBERTINE AW15'16 READY-TO-WEAR NEW YORK FASHION WEEK Johnson Hartig may be one of fashion's more compelling magpies. Surrealism, rave, punk, street—he embraces it all with a gleeful exuberance and folds reworked vintage pieces in with the new. Fall found that Libertine spirit out in full force; it was a welcome, maximalist jolt in the midst of ...