Some designers opt to romanticize these frigid winter months, offering up blissfully arctic fantasies filled with woolen hot-shorts and midriff baring mohair sweaters. Not Tess Giberson: she knows what’s up. As we made our way across the icy-wet tundra —or, the Westside Highway…you pick— to take in her presentation at Pier 59, we couldn’t help but take note of how even the most pap-happy editor was on pure sartorial survival mode today; this was no time to put “wow factor” before “warm factor”.

Giberson is on the same page for fall 2013, as her presentation could have walked right out of the all-white loft space into today’s precipitous chill (and we had no choice to upon its completion).

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Katherine Polk continues to pursue a push-and-pull dialogue of masculine details and ladylike fragility for her third Houghton presentation. This season found her at times conceiving a complex story of stark, graphic paneling, and at others spinning sultry tales of YSL-referenced feathers and “flou.” This intentional duality could be seen as well within the collection’s Read more →

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What can an upstart design duo accomplish with $25,000? We stopped by Tome’s fall 2013 presentation at Industria Studios to find out the answer to that question. Little did we know that we’d leave feeling oddly centered, having just stepped for a minute onto the desert plains of the great American Southwest. This zen atmosphere Read more →

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The scene at M. Patmos‘ presentation today was inarguably one of luxe-lust. It was as though at any moment, editors were going to rush the models for their chunky-knit dickies and generously tailored, double-face parkas.

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Pre-Fall 2013 proved a classic study in the Marni tradition of taking that which might be considered dowdy and workaday–generously man-tailored suits, performance-outerwear parkas–and rendering it exciting through bricolage and modern-magpie styling.

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Fabric often comes first with Jonathan Saunders. In previous seasons, his work has explored experimental, textile techno-craft (spring’s holographic metallics were stellar) but for Pre-Fall 2013, he took his digi-cloth in a decidedly more ladylike direction.

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When we dropped by his press appointments to see the collection up-close-and-personal last week, Deacon pointed to pioneer British kink-mag Atom Age as a key source of inspiration for the season.

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Pre-Fall 2013 finds Derek Lam continuing his exploration of Britain’s youth-fueled, mid-century cool. He’s been injecting this mod energy into the collection for several seasons and it’s beginning to truly gel as an integral part of his brand’s current aesthetic.

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