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New York Fashion Week Spring 2027 Trends, by the Numbers
The New York Fashion Week spring 2027 trends in this piece come from a count, not a mood. On 15
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Colour of the Year 2027: WGSN's Luminous Blue, Explained
The Colour of the Year 2027 is Luminous Blue, a bright blue with a lit-from-inside quality, chosen jointly by the
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Spring 2027 Fashion Trends Forecast: WGSN's Four Directions
The first spring 2027 fashion trends forecast arrived before a single show. On 25 August 2026, three weeks before New
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Copenhagen Spring 2027 Trends: Long Shorts to Rococo
Copenhagen Fashion Week showed its spring 2027 collections in early August, a month before the big four, New York through
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Resort 2027 Trends: The Little Black Dress at 100
Resort 2027, also sold as cruise or pre-spring, is the third season that sits between spring and fall, outside the
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Espadrille History: 1322, the YSL Wedge and the Jute Sole
An espadrille is a canvas shoe on a rope sole. It comes from Iberia, with the deepest roots in Catalonia,
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Linen Explained: 30,000-Year Fibers and a 5,000-Year Dress
Linen is cloth woven from the bast fibers in the stem of the flax plant. It feels cold to the
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Met Gala 2026 Costume Art: $42 Million, Nearly 400 Objects
The Met Gala 2026 took place on May 4 under the theme "Costume Art," with "Fashion Is Art" as the
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Haute Couture Explained: 1945 Rules and a 600-Hour Jacket
Haute couture is a legally protected term in France, shown twice a year in Paris, in January and July. The
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Off-White Outfits 2026: Cloud Dancer Without Going Flat
Off-white outfits go wrong when you treat white as one color. Pantone gave 2026 to Cloud Dancer, 11-4201, which it
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Fashion Month Explained: The Fall/Winter 2026 Big Four
Fashion month is the stretch when the four big fashion weeks run back to back. From mid-February the women's fall/winter
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Pantone Color of the Year 2026: Cloud Dancer, a First White
Pantone's Color of the Year for 2026 is Cloud Dancer, Pantone 11-4201, a white. Vogue published the announcement on December
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How to Wear Sequins in the Daytime: Three Toned-Down Looks
How to wear sequins in the daytime has one real obstacle: by default they belong to the night. The runway
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Sequin History: From Tutankhamun's Tomb to Party Season
Sequin history reads, by material, as a price drop from gold to plastic. By purpose it hasn't moved: fix light
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Building a Quiet Luxury Wardrobe: Fabric, Cut, Palette
A quiet luxury wardrobe runs on one decision: move the budget from quantity to quality. Quiet luxury itself means understated
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Crochet Summer Outfits: Three Ways to Wear It in the Heat
Crochet summer outfits are decided by the yarn before anything else. Crochet is fabric made by pulling loops of yarn
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Crochet and Slow Fashion: From Famine Relief to the Runway
Crochet makes fabric by pulling loops of yarn through each other with a hooked needle. The one real difference from
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How to Style a Pleated Skirt: Office, Weekend, Evening
Start with why the pleated skirt comes back every summer. At the 1919 Wimbledon women's final, Suzanne Lenglen walked out
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Pleats for Spring 2025: From Pleats Please to Prada's Skirt
Pleats are the most visible silhouette idea of spring 2025. Vogue's list of eight spring trends, published March 7, 2025,
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Modern Tailoring: How to Wear a Suit Jacket Every Day
The difference between today's tailoring and the 1980s power suit is one word: ease. On July 24, 1975, Giorgio Armani
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Morandi Colour Formulas: Three Ways to Wear Greyed Tones
Morandi colours work on one condition: every colour in the outfit carries about the same amount of grey. In colour
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Power Suit History: Chanel, Le Smoking and the Shoulder Pad
The history of the women's suit runs from blending in to standing out. "Power dressing" names the late-1970s and 1980s
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Pleats Explained: Knife, Box, Accordion and Fortuny
A pleat is cloth folded back on itself and held. The earliest surviving examples are linen shirts pleated with the
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Morandi Colours: The Painter Behind Fashion's Greyed Palette
Morandi colours are a family of low-saturation, low-contrast shades that share roughly the same amount of grey. The name belongs
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Quiet Luxury Explained: The Row, Loro Piana and No Logos
Quiet luxury has a one-line definition: understated design, high-quality materials and classic tailoring, with no visible logos or other open
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Athleisure Explained: How to Wear Sportswear to the Office
Athleisure is a portmanteau of athletic and leisure. Merriam-Webster traces the word to 1976, but retailers only treated it as
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How to Wear Yellow: Vanilla, Saffron and Mustard, Explained
Yellow is the colour most people leave out of the wardrobe, and the numbers back that up. In a survey
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Boho Chic Returns for Spring 2025: Chloé, Suede, Long Skirts
Boho chic returned to the spring 2025 runways with one clear author. Chemena Kamali took over Chloé in October 2023
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