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WHAT TO Watch
As summer wanes and the industry gets ready to sprint to the end of the year, WWD this week takes a look at what lies ahead over the next few months, beginning with the latest round of IPOs, the mass market challenge, the state of quiet luxury, a reset...
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Personal Effects
There’s a new area of fashion focus — the neckline — thanks to growing demand for statement necklaces. Collected, curated and deliberately undone, the latest styles mix precious with playful to turn personal adornment into autobiography, as seen here...
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Coach Kahn
The Coach brand has been one of fashion’s biggest success stories but as it marks its 85th anniversary, chief executive officer Todd Kahn, seen here in the company’s showroom in Manhattan, still sees plenty of room for growth — targeting $10 billion in...
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Sporty & Sweet
The Y2K celebrity off-duty look is back in new ways for resort 2027 and WWD spotlights the trend from the contemporary collections, as seen here in Sea’s viscose, rayon and lace top over Alo’s sports bra and Made Some Sportswear’s nylon pants, worn...
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Nancy’s Next Act
After a successful exit from her first brand Briogeo, entrepreneur (and mother to be) Nancy Twine is back with a new hair care venture. Called Soulstice, the masstige-priced brand looks to capitalize on consumers’ willingness to buy cross-channel.
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Michael’s Mates
Fashion week may be looming but Michael Kors wanted to invite a few friends, including Naomi Watts and Katie Holmes seen here with the designer, out East for a quiet dinner at Swifty’s to continue the celebrations of his brand’s 45th anniversary year....
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The Spin Crowd
“Icon” is an overused word, but WWD has covered many people who deserve the title — those who make the worlds of fashion and culture turn. This week’s final installment of archival photos takes a look at a few of them, as seen in this photo from the...
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Friends And Foes
Fashion can make firm friends and create equally firm foes — sometimes they involve the same people — and WWD has through the decades covered both, as seen here in this photo from the Fairchild Archives of author Truman Capote and style icon C.Z....
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Power Play
Washington, D.C., isn’t exactly renowned as a fashion capital, but there have been administrations and moments when the two worlds have blended — think the Kennedys and the Reagans, for instance; social hostesses from Evangeline Bruce to Deeda Blair,...
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All Access
Film and fashion often go hand-in-hand and throughout the decades WWD has profiled famed actors, directors and costume designers as well as visited the sets of iconic movies being made, as seen here in this photo from the Fairchild Archives of Jack...
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Turnaround Tips
Getting a fashion brand back on the growth path is easier said than done — but Coach and Ralph Lauren, looks from which are seen here, have proven it is possible. So what does it take? WWD asked the two brands’ chief executive officers, plus other...
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Big Bag Boys
What’s in the bag? From roomy totes and weekenders to supersized messenger and gym styles, big bags were a key men’s accessories statement for spring 2027, turning them into the hero of the look while offering a compelling entry point into luxury, as...
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Retail Reinvention
Retail is more competitive than ever, but Selfridges CEO André Maeder has a strategy: to evolve the store into a “retail media” platform covering everything from fashion to food, a cinema to fine dining. “We see ourselves as a platform for our...
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Liquid Gold
Water is having a moment. Not just any water — data from NielsenIQ shows that U.S. sales of standard drinking water actually declined 1.3 percent in 2025 — but a more niche subcategory of luxury “better” water. Fueled by the hydration boom, which in...
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What Do Men Want?
Menswear is in the midst of an identity crisis. Today’s market is seemingly splintered into a number of different style tribes. There is still the street customer, but now preppy, younger men are buying suits — and even ties — while the older consumer...
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Fashion Forward
FFerran Torres hasn’t touched a soccer ball since the World Cup final. Now, on a rainy afternoon this week in New York City, the 26-year-old Spanish hero is juggling barefoot for the cameras when it dawns on him: this is the first time he’s been on the...
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Scene Stealers
As Copenhagen Fashion Week becomes a must-stop on the global fashion circuit, its streets have evolved into a showcase for fearless self-expression, where bold color, playful prints and inventive layering reflect the creative energy of the city’s...
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Heating Up
The “beforehand” is now a distant memory: Arnaud is part of “this little show called ‘Heated Rivalry,’” which catapulted the actor into a new level of fame since its arrival late last year. In his portrayal of hockey player Scott Hunter, Arnaud shot...
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Big Apple Beauties
WWD toured three New York City neighborhoods on a Friday evening, capturing the city’s inhabitants as they basked not just in the glow of a post-NBA Championship win, but a more literal golden hour, too. Of course, we stopped to ask their favorite...
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Future Focused
At Sourcing Journal’s Visions of Tomorrow event, Beth Esponnette, cofounder and chief product officer at Unspun, referenced a widely shared cartoon of two cavemen struggling to haul a rock-filled cart with square wheels while a third holds up round...
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Dress Codes
Mixing formal with informal, daywear with evening, and country with city, spring 2027 is about rewriting the rules of dressing. The result is a wardrobe of unexpected combinations and sharper proportions, creating an elevated, sleek approach to...
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Kering Returns to Growth
PARIS — Kering returned to growth in the second quarter, posting its first comparable sales increase in three years as the luxury group started to reap the benefits of chief executive officer Luca de Meo’s turnaround plan. Gucci, the group’s star...
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Full Circle
Estée Lauder is coming full circle with its new launch. The beauty brand, which over the decades has had big fragrance hits with the likes of White Linen, Pleasures, Beautiful and more, is hoping to return to its blockbuster days with the launch of...
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The CEO Pay Peak
Storytelling is an essential part of fashion. Brands live and die by how they’re presented and how successfully they can romance and communicate with the consumer, who ultimately wants some bang for their buck. Turns out, there’s a lot of...
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Coats to the Max
If any brand has a hero product, it is Max Mara, which is marking its 75th year and which has almost defined the coats category with its perfectly cut styles in luxurious fabrics, an example of which is seen here — a resort design photographed at the...
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Soft Serve
In the midst of a European heat wave during the spring 2027 men’s shows, designers — like Dries Van Noten, Soshi Otsuki and Comme des Garçons, seen here—opted for fluid, soft tailoring as one of the season’s leading messages, offering cooler approach...
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Thought Experiment
It turns out the revolution in artificial intelligence requires a lot of good oldfashioned thought by living, breathing humans. The hype around the lightning-fast technology and its real world potential is consuming vast quantities of chief executive...
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Cup Crowd
As Tom Cruise said Sunday, the FIFA World Cup "brought the world together" — from New York/New Jersey Stadium to watch parties at homes globally or, as seen here, in Manhattan's Central Park, where fans convivially showed off their national colors via...
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Riding the Wave
Canadian band The Beaches — Jordan Miller, Kylie Miller, Leandra Earl and Eliza Emman-McDaniel, seen here — are having quite the year: they just performed a sold-out show at Madison Square Garden; their song “Edge of the Earth” has had a resurgence,...
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Couture Street
While there may be incredible looks on the catwalk, Paris Couture Week always turns the City of Light into one of fashion's most compelling runways. Everyone from celebrities to VICs to industry insiders don their finest — and sometimes farthest-out —...
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Fantasy Land
Couture has long been designers’ ultimate expression of fantasy. For fall 2026, they leaned into that with more imagination than ever, from oversized proportions to theatrical volumes, intricate embellishments and inventive materials to dramatic...
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Taking Shape
The fall 2026 couture collections were a feat of engineering as much as fashion, with structure a key theme. Think sharp geometric silhouettes, volumes and proportions that turned construction into the story, including corsetry where new craftsmanship...
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Natural World
Lions, tigers, fish, flowers...oh my! Nature emerged as one of the leading themes across the fall couture collections in Paris, but not in the usual way as designers went way beyond the typical floral embroideries to tap into the sea, wildlife and...
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A Growing Crush
Chanel continues to expand its Coco Crush franchise, which started in jewelry and now expands to fragrance with Coco Mademoiselle Crush Absolu, a project overseen by the brand’s perfumer creator Olivier Polge and its president of fragrance and beauty...
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The Art of Craft
For her first couture show at Fendi, Maria Grazia Chiuri returned to the house’s roots in many ways: she showed in Rome, reprised a 1985 exhibition conceived by Karl Lagerfeld and, above all, emphasized the artisanship of its ateliers with intarsia,...
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Flare Up
Over the years, fashion’s revolving door has spun several designers into houses that might not necessarily align with their natural creative expression. That doesn’t seem to be an issue with Pierpaolo Piccioli at Balenciaga, whose silhouette-intensive...
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Faster Handover
PARIS — The beauty landscape keeps shape-shifting with news that Gucci and L’Oréal have entered into a 50-year exclusive beauty license. This is one year ahead of schedule, as the Italian brand’s fragrance and beauty license was meant to expire with...
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Metal Works
Dior Unless you’re living under a rock, you’ll have heard by now that Dior’s Jonathan Anderson dressed both Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce for their wedding on Friday. Even without any official photo release, the wave of online and social coverage...
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TOP10 MENS COLLECTIONS
The spring 2027 men’s season was hotter than ever, with sweltering temperatures keeping buyers, editors and other members of the fashion pack focused on one thing: How can men dress in extreme heat? There were real standouts that answered that question...
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Couture Shines
Paris Couture Week begins Monday, the latest chapter of fashion’s pinnacle of creativity and craftsmanship. While the couture doesn’t generally set trends, it allows designers to exercise their imaginations, as seen here in these preview sketches from...
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Fashion’s H1 Winners and Losers
Figuring out why a stock is up or down in the brutal calculus of Wall Street requires two basic pieces of information — how a company is performing and how that compares with what investors were expecting. When investors have been disappointed...
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California Jewel
Tiffany & Co. has boosted its profile in Southern California with the opening of a Peter Marino-designed, 15,000-square-foot flagship at South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa that brings together its high jewelry, contemporary art and heritage collections....
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Shape Shifter
Watching Michael Rider’s first stand-alone men’s show for Celine on the last day of Paris Men’s Fashion Week, and at the end of a rather sluggish menswear season in Europe, it felt like we were finally seeing something completely new. The only problem...
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Team Spirit
Rick Owens unveiled a fresh Adidas collaboration at his spring men’s show, which yielded sock-like boots — and jackets that inflate thanks to integrated fans, like the one shown here. Such personal air-conditioning felt apropos, and slightly alarming,...
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Come Undone
Jonathan Anderson’s spring collection for Dior blurred the boundaries between intimate and formal dressing, with silk chiffon jackets stripped of their linings, or a cotton drill suit modeled on a pair of pajamas. With a pulsing soundtrack, the...
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Surf ’s Up
On France’s hottest day on record, Pharrell Williams took his Louis Vuitton collection to the beach with logoed surfboards, Monogram wet suits and a giant artificial wave that kicked up a steady spray, giving even his citywear a rad attitude. For more...
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Slim Shadies
Prada’s spring men’s collection hinges on jeans and jean jackets — and a few other wardrobe staples. Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons coaxed plenty of attitude from familiar garments by employing a range of materials, quirky colors and shrunken...
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All Tied Up
Ralph Lauren might single-handedly revive the neckwear business (after all, that’s where he started), incorporating repp ties, cravats, bows and neck scarves into his Polo Ralph Lauren and Purple Label collections, paraded together in Milan on Friday...
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MILAN MEN’S PREVIEW Thom’s Treat
Thom Browne is heading to Milan to show his spring 2027 men’s collection, a bit of a gift to the city plus to Gildo Zegna, chairman of his brand’s parent company Ermenegildo Zegna Group. “I promised Gildo that I would do a show in Milan for him,”...
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Bright Lights, Big City
From Shanghai to Los Angeles and everywhere in between, luxury brands headed to major cities for their resort 2027 shows and presentations — and this being a season about getaways, it was all about vibrant colors to brighten the mood during those drab...
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Big Step
Hermès opens its long-awaited London flagship on Friday in a vote of optimism for the city, and for British culture. The brand has redesigned the former Asprey store under artistic director Pierre-Alexis Dumas, and tweaked a few of the original...
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Punk Power
Japanese designer Kei Ninomiya has reached back to the mid-’70s and the punk movement for inspiration for his co-branded spring 2027 collection for Dover Street Market, which will be shown at Pitti Uomo in Florence. But while there may be safety pins...
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Retail Revival
As the community around it rebuilds after the devastating fires in January 2025, developer Rick Caruso is eager to do his part by reopening his 100,000-square-foot Palisades Village on Aug. 1, with both new and returning businesses. “The way that we...
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Knicks Fever
How patient can fans be for 53 years? Knicks spirit has taken over New York and fashions have been fervent and fun, with blue and orange channeling the energy ahead of the team’s historic comeback victory in Game Four of the NBA Finals against the San...
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Carlyle Crush
The Carlyle hotel, specifically its famed Bemelmans Bar, was the place to be late Sunday night as stars of Broadway, Hollywood and more, including Megan Thee Stallion and Ariana DeBose, seen here, packed in for the Tony Awards after party. And party...
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To The Beach
Zegna creative director Alessandro Sartori hit the road, literally and figuratively, taking the brand's summer 2027 runway show to the Malibu Pier on Friday evening and basing it around the Italian ritual of La Villeggiatura, when families pack up most...
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L.A. Dance
Hermès is the latest brand to bring its runway to the U.S., showing women’s creative director Nadège Vanhée’s Chapter Two collection in the hills of Bel Air Thursday night at sundown and with an atypical focus — the dress, as seen here and inspired by...
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Space Odyssey
Prada Mode has touched down in Manhattan with a series of activations titled "Satellites II" conceived by video game maker Hideo Kojima and film director Nicolas Winding Refn, seen here lying in a room at the Chelsea Hotel decked out in the concept's...
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The Tory Twist
For resort 2027, Tory Burch wanted to create a strange familiarity with pieces by making classics “a little weirder,” resulting in a dressier lineup that evoked off-kilter, modern femininity, as seen here. Fit for any temperature one might travel...
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From Seoul to SoCal
K-beauty retail giant Olive Young drew an overnight line on opening day and 6,000 visitors during its first weekend in Pasadena, with a second store planned for Los Angeles at Westfield Century City.
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Resort Roars
Dior, Gucci and Louis Vuitton chose the U.S. to stage their destination runway shows, adding to the resort season’s momentum not only as a key commercial opportunity but also as a powerful brand-building platform. This week’s New York market is likely...
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Shining Stars
Dior unveiled its latest high jewelry collection by Victoire de Castellane in Venice, titling the lineup “Diorissima,” which is “a superlative, referencing more color, more daring designs and techniques, and more precious jewels,” said the designer....
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Fancy Friends
The Comité Colbert drew a crowd of luxury executives and friends to the top floor of The Shed in Hudson Yards Tuesday night to celebrate the special relationship between France and the U.S. and mark the official opening of the exhibit “Hidden...
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Touch and Feel
For her first pre-collection for Fendi, chief creative officer Maria Grazia Chiuri continued to delve into the house’s heritage of luxurious, tactile materials but firmly planted in a versatile, wearable wardrobe, as seen here in this fire engine red...
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Fashion Alliance
The U.S. and France have had a special relationship from the moment the country was founded. So as America marks its 250th anniversary this July 4, members of France’s Comité Colbert are celebrating the semiquincentennial with an exhibition in New...
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THE SUMMER GLOW UP
There’s something magical about the beginning of summer, when anticipation of the season is at its peak. This year, despite a chaotic and challenging global backdrop, the warmer months promise a burst of noteworthy openings, retail debuts and unique...
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Frick Chic
Nicolas Ghesquière, seen here with a model, on Wednesday did what no other designer had done before, taking over the masterpiece-filled galleries of The Frick Collection for Louis Vuitton's cruise 2027 show. But he added his typical twist, injecting...
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Olivia in the Wild
Well, at least the madness of the sweltering streets of Manhattan on Tuesday night, when Olivia Wilde still managed to look cool walking into the Fendi flagship to fete the launch of the Baguette 26424 Re-Edition and its restoration service. The...
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Marc’s Star Power
“I think it could be a better blue, but I really should go,” Marc Jacobs said into his cell phone, perched at a large table surrounded by dozens of colorful handbags in the showroom of his headquarters in SoHo last Friday. “OK, important things are...
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Demi’s Busy Days
Demi Moore has been all over the Cannes Film Festival, even though as a member of the jury she's been spending most of her days watching movies. Still, the actress managed a quick stop at the Ami Paris Critics Week lunch, not only wearing the brand but...
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Heck Of A Town
OK, that might not be the actual phrase, but sensitivities apply. Regardless, Gucci lived it Saturday night by taking over the perennially packed Times Square, including its iconic billboards, for a megawatt cruise 2027 show that focused on what...
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Only in L.A.
Christian Dior headed to the City of Angels for Jonathan Anderson's first cruise show, held at the new LACMA galleries and playing off the house founder's long fascination with Hollywood. The result was a strong lineup that built on the house's code,...
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All About Iris
In 2010, Iris van Herpen, then only three years after establishing her eponymous couture brand, sent the first 3D-printed garment down the runway as part of her “Crystallization” collection. A top evoking the skeletal structure of a snake with its...
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