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Curatoria

Curatoria

Astrid Muñoz, a former model turned photographer, built Curatoria in Argentina in 2019 after years spent traveling the country documenting artisan communities and disappearing craft techniques. The label runs on that groundwork: instead of treating heritage textile and leatherwork skills as decoration, it structures whole collections around them, crediting the makers as collaborators rather than suppliers.

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Pucci Dresses: Prints, Swim and Sunglasses From the House

Pucci Dresses: Prints, Swim and Sunglasses From the House

Pucci dresses come from the house Emilio Pucci, a Florentine aristocrat, founded in 1947 after a photograph of his ski outfit ran in Harper's Bazaar. I go through the dresses, shirting, swim and sunglasses.

Magda Butrym Dresses: Rosette Midis, Blazers and Shoes

Magda Butrym Dresses: Rosette Midis, Blazers and Shoes

Magda Butrym, born in Zabrze, Poland, worked for years as a stylist and ran a short-lived earlier label, Portofino, before launching her eponymous house in Warsaw in 2014. The label built its identity by working directly with Polish artisans, turning regional hand-knitted lace and hand-plaited leatherwork into signatures rather than trims.

Flore Flore

Flore Flore

Flòrian van Zuilen launched Flore Flore out of Amsterdam in the summer of 2021, after years working in fashion roles that took her from New York to Copenhagen. The label exists to solve one specific problem, the cotton basic that actually fits, and its team reportedly ran more than eighty fittings over about eight months just to finalize the proportions of its original T-shirt styles.

Zimmermann: The Sydney Label Two Sisters Started in 1991

Zimmermann: The Sydney Label Two Sisters Started in 1991

Sisters Nicky and Simone Zimmermann founded their namesake label in Sydney in 1991, after Nicky began sewing garments in her parents' garage and selling them at Paddington Markets. The brand's breakthrough came when it put swimwear on the same runway as ready-to-wear at the inaugural Australian Fashion Week in 1996, a pairing that was unusual at the time and helped it build an international following.

EB Denim

EB Denim

Elena Bonvicini started EB Denim around 2015 while still in high school in Newport Beach, California, cutting up vintage Levi's 501s into shorts and selling them out of her school locker room. The brand grew through a sorority trunk show at USC and a pandemic-era pivot into its own designs, still made in Los Angeles and still rooted in that reworked-vintage-denim logic.

Silvia Tcherassi: From Barranquilla Interior Designer to Dresses

Silvia Tcherassi: From Barranquilla Interior Designer to Dresses

Silvia Tcherassi trained as an interior designer in Barranquilla, Colombia, before a T-shirt she made for herself caught a shopkeeper's eye. I go through her dresses, tops, skirts and trousers.

Eden Presley

Eden Presley

Gwen Myers started making jewelry in New York as a way to fill the hours at home with three young children, and named the label after two of them, Eden and Presley. What began as pieces for herself and friends grew into informal jewelry parties before it turned into an actual wholesale business, hand-set gemstones in 14k gold with a bold, maximalist streak.

Ten Thousand Things Jewelry: 18K Gold Pieces From a New York Duo

Ten Thousand Things Jewelry: 18K Gold Pieces From a New York Duo

Ron Anderson and David Rees, both self-taught jewelers who came out of fashion retail rather than formal design school, founded Ten Thousand Things in New York in 1991, taking their name from a line in the Tao Te Ching. The label helped bring personal, wearable fine jewelry back into fashion at a moment when magazines were dominated by oversized costume pieces, a shift cemented early when Kate Moss wore its small cross pearl earrings in her first Calvin Klein campaign in 1992. Here are some of my personal favorite items from the collection...

Ben-Amun

Ben-Amun

Isaac Manevitz, an Egyptian-born designer who had worked for costume houses like Trifari, started Ben-Amun in New York in 1980, naming it for his eldest son and the pharaoh Tutankhamun. The brand never pretended to be fine jewelry: it built its name on hand-finished pieces in electroplated gold, Czech glass and Majorca pearls, made to photograph and move like the real thing, which is exactly what got a Ben-Amun cuff onto Jackie Kennedy Onassis's wrist in 1989.

Yvonne Leon Jewelry: Gold and Gemstone Pieces Made in Paris

Yvonne Leon Jewelry: Gold and Gemstone Pieces Made in Paris

Yvonne Leon grew up around a family of jewelers in Paris, spending childhood afternoons at her parents' vintage jewelry shop before studying at the fashion school Esmod and working as a stylist and editorial assistant, including time at Vogue Paris. She launched her own fine jewelry line in the early 2010s, building it around the dessous d'oreille, an ear jacket earring she reworked from a piece her father originally designed for her mother, and expanded it into a bestiary of animal charms sourced from her own flea market habit. A brand of my wishlist dreams

ROAME Pascal Strapless Maxi Dress and the Melbourne Label

ROAME Pascal Strapless Maxi Dress and the Melbourne Label

The ROAME Pascal Strapless Maxi Dress sits with dresses, tops, trousers and skirts from the Melbourne label founded by Hollie Sweet. I go through the dresses first, then the shirting, trousers and skirts.

Max Mara

Max Mara

Achille Maramotti, a lawyer by training from a family of tailors, founded the house in Reggio Emilia, Italy, in 1951, first as Confezioni Maramotti, renaming it Max Mara when it moved headquarters in 1957. His idea was to bring American industrial manufacturing into European tailoring, turning the coat, a masculine wardrobe staple, into a defining piece for women, a project that produced the 101801 camel coat designer Anne-Marie Beretta created for the house in 1981.

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TWP Clothing: Shirting From Trish Wescoat Pound

TWP Clothing: Shirting From Trish Wescoat Pound

Trish Wescoat Pound, raised in Oklahoma and seasoned by earlier stints at Theory and Michael Kors and by building her first label, Haute Hippie, into a business she later sold in 2015, founded TWP in 2021 after selling hand-tailored shirts to friends at trunk shows caught the attention of former boss and Theory co-founder Andrew Rosen, who became her investor. The label reimagines men's shirting for women, down to cuff construction and button placement, and has since expanded into denim, tailoring and accessories, all made within a few blocks of its SoHo base.

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De La Vali Dresses: Maxi Styles From Two Friends Raised on Ibiza

De La Vali Dresses: Maxi Styles From Two Friends Raised on Ibiza

De La Vali dresses are maxi styles by Jana Sascha and Laura Castro, friends raised on Ibiza who started the label in 2017. I sorted the dresses by cut, from fishtail to flared sleeve.

Lizzie Fortunato

Lizzie Fortunato

Twin sisters Lizzie and Kathryn Fortunato started making jewelry as a Duke University side hustle in the early 2000s, then founded Lizzie Fortunato in 2008 from a Lower East Side apartment on the strength of a ten-thousand-dollar bonus check Kathryn handed her sister with instructions to follow her dreams.

Black Suede Studio Shoes: Montreal Loafers, Boots and Mules

Black Suede Studio Shoes: Montreal Loafers, Boots and Mules

Kris Avakian launched Black Suede Studio out of Montreal in 2018, after years spent inside his family's accessories manufacturing business, including a stint running quality control at their factory in Qingdao, China. The label's whole premise was closing a gap he saw in footwear: shoes with real quality and comfort at a level nobody else was hitting, a conviction strong enough that he later moved production to Brazil to get the craftsmanship right.

Onia Beach Dresses and Swim: From Two Swim Shorts to Resort

Onia Beach Dresses and Swim: From Two Swim Shorts to Resort

Carl Cunow and Nathan Romano, two native New Yorkers who met in high school, launched Onia in 2009 with just two styles of men's swim shorts made in New York. Barneys discovered the brand early, and Onia grew from a two-man swim operation into men's and women's resort wear built around fit and fabrication rather than the loudest print in the room

By Malene Birger

By Malene Birger

Malene Birger launched her namesake house in Copenhagen in 2003, a year after leaving Day Birger et Mikkelsen, the label she had co-founded in 1997 and helped shape as creative director. The point of departure was Scandinavian minimalism with a bohemian ease baked in, tailoring and knitwear built from long-lasting fabrics rather than trend-of-the-moment fabric

Khaite Shoes, Bags and Accessories: Leather Pumps and Sandals

Khaite Shoes, Bags and Accessories: Leather Pumps and Sandals

Catherine Holstein launched Khaite in New York in 2016 with backing from Adam Pritzker's Assembled Brands, after a first eponymous label she started as a Parsons student closed in the 2008 financial crisis and a five-year run designing for Gap, Vera Wang and The Elder Statesman taught her the parts of the business she'd missed the first time. The label opened on denim and cashmere knitwear before adding runway shows in 2019 and an in-house bags and footwear line the same season, and Holstein still designs under a name modeled on the Greek word for long, flowing hair.

Tacit Jewelry by Michelle Fantaci

Tacit Jewelry by Michelle Fantaci

TACIT jewelry is the fine jewelry line from Michelle Fantaci, a New York jeweler in business under her own name since 2007. I go through the balloon-inspired pendants, earrings and bracelets, all made with 18k gold, ceramic-coated silver and traceable diamonds.

Rimowa Luggage: Why the Grooves Started with an Airplane

Rimowa Luggage: Why the Grooves Started with an Airplane

A Rimowa suitcase has grooves because the brand's aluminum cases took their design from an airplane. I go through 20 cases, from the original aluminum shells and Trunk sizes to the Essential cabins.

La Roche-Posay Tinted Sunscreen: The Mineral Fluids to Try

La Roche-Posay Tinted Sunscreen: The Mineral Fluids to Try

La Roche-Posay tinted sunscreen comes as 100% mineral fluids that use iron oxides for the tint. Here is how the two tinted fluids work, which tinted mineral sunscreens and SPF skin tints sit beside them, and the powders and lip balms for touch-ups.

Ralph Lauren Spring 2027: Touched by the Hand

Ralph Lauren Spring 2027: Touched by the Hand

Ralph Lauren Spring 2027 mixed brocade with cargo pants, a 1967 tie with faded jeans and hand-painted silks that look sun-bleached. Half the looks were built on trousers, and I go through the dresses and jackets too.

On Cloud Collabs: Zendaya, FKA twigs and Post Archive Faction

On Cloud Collabs: Zendaya, FKA twigs and Post Archive Faction

On Cloud collabs include Zendaya, FKA twigs and Post Archive Faction, alongside the everyday Cloud 6 and Cloud X. I trace the family from a garden hose glued to a running shoe in Zurich to the Cloudmonster and Cloudtilt.

Milani Mascara and the Milan Idea Behind a Brand That Started in 2002

Milani Mascara and the Milan Idea Behind a Brand That Started in 2002

Milani mascara comes in tubing, fanning and anti-gravity formulas from a brand named after Milan and started in 2002. I go through the wands, the rest of the Milani eye shelf and how I would pick one.

Staud Spring 2027: It Lives in the Space Between

Staud Spring 2027: It Lives in the Space Between

Staud Spring 2027 is built around the slash, with Sarah Staudinger pairing up and down, east and west, then and now. Bags appeared in most looks and evening clothes were worn with easy shoes, and I go through the dresses, bags and shoes.

Olive Green and Chocolate Brown Outfits to Try This Fall

Olive Green and Chocolate Brown Outfits to Try This Fall

Olive green and chocolate brown are the earthiest pairing in fall dressing, two colors that look like a walk in the woods. These four looks pair an olive cashmere sweater with brown corduroy trousers, a brown cardigan with an olive ribbed skirt, and an olive blouson over a brown polo sweater. Start with one piece of each and build from there.