STYLE

From Vivienne Westwood's transforming gowns to Galia Lahav's polka dots and Sareh Nouri's dramatic bows, Fall 2027 bridal collections are making room for brides with a little more personality. For years, bridal fashion has operated within a surprisingly narrow definition of romance. There were the princess gowns, the minimalist satin columns, the lace-covered traditionalists and the occasional daring silhouette for brides determined to make an entrance. New York Bridal Fashio

Taylor Swift, Kendall Jenner, Demi Moore and Hollywood's fashion crowd delivered a red carpet of sculptural silhouettes, theatrical details and old-school glamour. The Academy Museum Gala has become one of Hollywood's most compelling fashion occasions, offering the glamour of awards season without the obligation to dress like an Oscar nominee. At its sixth annual edition in Los Angeles on October 17, the red carpet moved comfortably between classic eveningwear, experimental c

Vivienne Westwood SS27 makes a convincing case for clothes that refuse to behave. Sometimes clothing requires a small period of negotiation. You work out where the arm goes, reconsider the shoe you thought you could walk in, discover that your skirt has its own preferred direction of travel and accept that sitting down may now require planning permission. Vivienne Westwood has always understood that the second category is considerably more fun. For Spring/Summer 2027, Andreas

Alexa Chung and Reformation have turned the wardrobe that defined a generation of indie fashion into a new 30-piece collection. There was a period when Alexa Chung seemed to be wearing everything approximately five minutes before everybody else wanted it. Navy sweaters over tiny skirts, denim cut-offs with men's shirts, ballet flats, battered boots, Peter Pan collars, Barbour jackets, vintage dresses and the Mulberry bag that eventually carried her name became part of an inst

Spring 2027’s best bags and shoes aren’t politely completing the look. They’re interrupting it. The accessory used to have a relatively straightforward job: finish the clothes. The bag provided polish, the shoe reinforced the silhouette and, somewhere between the two, the runway acquired the commercially desirable objects that might actually make it into wardrobes. Spring 2027 has other ideas. Across the season so far, some of the most memorable accessories are doing precisel

MM6 just turned shirts into dresses, sweaters into skirts and six pairs of Havaianas into one shoe Most clothes arrive with an implied set of rules. The shirt buttons at the front. The sweater goes over the torso. The trousers begin at the waist and finish somewhere near the ankle. A belt occupies the narrow territory between top and bottom, a scarf belongs somewhere around the neck and a cardigan is worn with its buttons facing whichever direction the designer intended. We k

London’s best Spring 2027 collections didn’t choose between romance and strangeness. They gave us flowers, lace, lingerie then made sure something about them felt slightly wrong For a while, fashion became remarkably good at explaining itself in a single word. Minimalist. Romantic. Gothic. Sexy. Ladylike. Bohemian. Quiet. Each aesthetic arrived with its own recognizable wardrobe, references and increasingly its own social-media identity. You could choose the woman you wanted

Rugby shirts, military jackets, school socks and collegiate knits are being pulled out of context for Spring 2027 The uniform has always had a fairly straightforward job. It tells us where someone belongs. A striped tie might identify a school, braid and epaulettes a military rank, a numbered jersey a team, a blazer an institution. Uniforms make people legible before they have introduced themselves, using clothes to communicate membership, authority, profession and status. Th

From Adolfo Domínguez's study of color to Palomo's birds of paradise, Spring 2027 is making a very persuasive case for turning the saturation back up There is nothing inherently wrong with beige. Nor black, grey, cream, camel or any of the other dependable shades that have spent the past several years forming fashion’s exceptionally tasteful neutral wardrobe. But somewhere between quiet luxury, investment dressing and an endless supply of beautifully photographed oatmeal kni

The gowns, the tailoring, the unexpected color. Our favorite fashion moments from television’s biggest night The Emmys may belong to television, but this year’s blue carpet made a convincing opening argument for awards-season fashion. There was no single formula dominating the night. Instead, the strongest looks moved between color, texture, immaculate simplicity and outright spectacle. These are the ones that stayed with us. Ayo Edebiri in Chanel Ayo Edebiri gave us one of t

Print clashes, strange bags, sharp shoes and scarves worn everywhere: the best street style at NYFW The runways spent the past week telling us what we might want to wear next spring. Outside the shows, New York was considerably more interested in what to wear right now. That distinction is part of what makes fashion week street style useful. The clothes arriving on the runway are proposals, edited into the particular universe of a designer and presented months before most of

Dior, Alaïa, Schiaparelli, Givenchy and Tom Ford dressed a comeback that demanded nothing less than grandeur There are performers for whom costume supports the spectacle, and then there is Céline Dion, whose relationship with fashion has become so particular that clothing feels inseparable from the performance itself. On September 12, when Dion walked onto the stage at Plénitude Arena outside Paris for her first full concert in more than six years, the significance of what sh

The court entrance has become fashion’s newest runway, and Osaka understands exactly what to do with it Tennis has always understood clothes. Few sports have produced such an enduring visual vocabulary: pleated white skirts, cable knits, polo collars, headbands, pristine sneakers and dresses engineered to move cleanly across the baseline. Its uniforms have escaped the court repeatedly, becoming fashion long after their technical purpose disappeared. Yet for all that sartorial

Colored tights are turning the space between hem and shoe into one of autumn’s most useful styling opportunities For years, hosiery has been expected to perform one of two jobs: disappear or be black. Nude tights attempted invisibility, while opaque black became the practical punctuation beneath autumn skirts and dresses. Color existed, certainly, but usually as something playful, retro or deliberately eccentric. This season, the runway is making a much more persuasive propos

Venice has a way of making fashion feel more cinematic Venice does not need much help creating a fashion moment. The lagoon, the wooden jetties, the faded grandeur of its palazzi and the strange glamour of arriving somewhere by boat provide a backdrop that can make even an airport adjacent outfit feel cinematic. Add the red carpet of the world's oldest film festival and the result is a particular kind of fashion theatre, less controlled than Cannes, more romantic than the Met