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Chan Luu Jewelry

Chan Luu Jewelry

Chan Luu started her namesake line in 1996 out of a Los Angeles garage, after two decades working retail floors and buying desks around the fashion industry. The label built its name on handmade jewelry produced with artisans in Vietnam and India, the kind of wrap bracelets and beaded pieces that made her a fixture on 2000s red carpets long before hers was a household name.

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Fleur du Mal Dresses and Shoes

Fleur du Mal Dresses and Shoes

Jennifer Zuccarini launched Fleur du Mal in New York in 2012 after stints co-founding Kiki de Montparnasse and designing intimates at Victoria's Secret, taking the brand's name from Baudelaire's collection of poems. Her pitch was lingerie meant to be worn on an ordinary day rather than saved for an occasion, which is why the label expanded into ready-to-wear and swim without ever losing its underpinnings logic.

High Sport Knitwear

High Sport Knitwear

Alissa Zachary launched High Sport in the early 2020s in New York and Los Angeles after years of merchandising at The Row and consulting for Khaite, and the label opened with a single item, a cropped, pull-on kick-flare trouser made to look tailored while wearing like a legging. That one silhouette became an unlikely editor obsession and the brand has since built out a small range of Italian-made knitwear around the same logic.

Prabal Gurung Dresses: A Shopper's Guide

Prabal Gurung Dresses: A Shopper's Guide

Prabal Gurung is the New York designer who carried Kathmandu and New Delhi into sculpted, vividly colored dresses. I love his clothes for how much drama they hold with just one idea at the center.

Victoria Beckham Dresses and Knitwear

Victoria Beckham Dresses and Knitwear

Victoria Beckham launched her eponymous ready-to-wear label in September 2008 with a ten-dress debut at New York Fashion Week, a pivot from pop stardom and tabloid muse status that the industry initially met with real skepticism. The label spent years losing money, took outside investment from NEO Investment Partners in 2017, and only turned its first operating profit in 2025, all while building a reputation for precise, body-conscious cutting that eventually earned her a spot on the official Paris Fashion Week calendar in 2022.

Rachel Gilbert Dresses

Rachel Gilbert Dresses

Rachel Gilbert launched her namesake label in Sydney in 2007 at 24, after training at the Whitehouse Institute of Design and working as a designer for Nicky Hilton's label Chick in New York and for Morrissey back in Australia. She built the brand on hand embellishment at a moment when Australia's occasion-wear market barely had any

Jenna Blake Jewelry

Jenna Blake Jewelry

Jenna Grosfeld launched her namesake fine jewelry label, Jenna Blake, in Los Angeles after building a personal collection of antique pieces for two decades. The work is handcrafted in LA and takes its cues from Art Deco and mid-century jewelers, including Boucheron and René Boivin, reworked in color and scale for a stack-it-all-on approach rather than a single statement piece.

Proenza Schouler Bags and Dresses

Proenza Schouler Bags and Dresses

Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez met at Parsons in New York and founded Proenza Schouler, named for their mothers' maiden names, when Barneys bought their senior thesis collection outright in 2002. The label built its reputation on the PS1 satchel, introduced in 2008, and on a run of CFDA awards including the first-ever CFDA and Vogue Fashion Fund prize in 2004.

Port de Bras Dresses: Ballet Lines and Best Buys

Port de Bras Dresses: Ballet Lines and Best Buys

Port de Bras is the ballet-minded activewear label Clarissa Egaña started in 2015, and it makes movement look soft on purpose. I like it for dresses and knits that start in a studio and carry on to lunch.

Lela Rose Dresses

Lela Rose Dresses

Lela Rose trained at Parsons, worked for Richard Tyler and Christian Francis Roth, then launched her own label out of her New York apartment in the late 1990s. The collection built its name on feminine, embellished ready-to-wear and became known well beyond fashion circles when the Bush daughters wore it to their father's first inauguration.

Monique Lhuillier Dresses

Monique Lhuillier Dresses

Monique Lhuillier launched her eponymous label in Los Angeles in 1996 after struggling to find a wedding gown she liked for her own wedding and deciding to design it herself, with her husband Tom Bugbee joining. What started as five bridal dresses at a single trade show grew into an iconic brand all built around a soft, romantic femininity.

Pomellato Jewelry: Color, Scale and Milanese Swagger

Pomellato Jewelry: Color, Scale and Milanese Swagger

Pomellato treats fine jewelry like a wardrobe, with color, scale, and a little Milanese swagger built into every piece. Founded in Milan by Pino Rabolini in 1967, the house introduced the idea of prêt-à-porter jewelry and made colored stones feel modern rather than ceremonial. The Nudo and Iconica families still carry that direct, tactile point of view.

Julietta Jewelry

Julietta Jewelry

Juliana Liden, a Brazil-born, Brooklyn-based self-taught designer, launched Julietta in 2021 after an earlier hair-accessories line failed to catch on. She pivoted to jewelry in 2022, hand-painting and reworking a stash of deadstock 1980s components into sculptural, earth- and sea-themed pieces that Moda Operandi picked up as its first global stockist.

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Brandon Maxwell Dresses and Knitwear

Brandon Maxwell Dresses and Knitwear

Brandon Maxwell grew up around his grandmother's boutique in Longview, Texas, then spent years styling for Nicola Formichetti and as Lady Gaga's fashion director before launching his own ready to wear label in New York in 2015. He builds by draping fabric on a body rather than sketching first, which is why the tailoring fits like it was built for one person even off the rack, and it won him the CFDA's Womenswear Designer of the Year in 2019.

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Polished Pieces That Look Designer (But Aren't)

Polished Pieces That Look Designer (But Aren't)

Polished blazers, faux leather trousers, loafers and soft knits that look like designer pieces. This is for anyone who wants a sharp, pulled together wardrobe without the designer label.

Jia Jia Jewelry

Jia Jia Jewelry

Jia Jia was founded in February 2020 by Jia-Jia Zhu, a former fashion buyer at Bergdorf Goodman and Saks Fifth Avenue who left retail to study yoga and crystals in Bali before turning that interest into a jewelry line. The brand's signature is raw, uncut and unpolished crystal set into 14k and 18k gold, a deliberately unfinished look that treats the stone as the whole point rather than something to be smoothed over.

Jacquemus Bags and Shoes

Jacquemus Bags and Shoes

Simon Porte Jacquemus founded his label in Paris in 2009, at twenty, naming it after his mother's maiden name the same year she died, a loss he has described as the shock that pushed him to start designing. The house grew from a one-man operation into an independent fashion company with hundreds of employees, opening its first permanent store on Avenue Montaigne in 2022 after years of building a name through inventive presentations and a fast-growing digital following.

Pleated Pants, Skirts and Shorts: Pleats Everywhere

Pleated Pants, Skirts and Shorts: Pleats Everywhere

Pleated pants, skirts and shorts add a fold of interest to any piece and flatter the figure. I gathered my favorite pleated pieces, from accordion maxi skirts to easy trousers.

Marie Mas Jewelry

Marie Mas Jewelry

Marie Mas was founded in Paris in January 2017 by Marie Cabirou, who trained at the Ecole Duperre and the Institut Francais de la Mode before spending several years designing jewelry under Raf Simons at Christian Dior Couture. She named the house after her maternal grandmother, Henriette Mas, and built its identity around a patented technique that lets a stone physically swing between two settings, an idea she traces to watching Christmas tree worms move underwater.

Christopher Esber Dresses and Shoes

Christopher Esber Dresses and Shoes

Christopher Esber founded his namesake label in Sydney in 2010, aged twenty two, on a small loan from his parents. The work is built on deconstructed tailoring and sculptural, negative-space cutting, the kind of engineering that makes a dress look undone and precisely controlled at once.

PISTOLA Jeans: Sizing, Fit and Best Buys

PISTOLA Jeans: Sizing, Fit and Best Buys

PISTOLA is the Los Angeles denim label Grace Na started in 2013 after years spent planning and buying fashion. I trust a jean more when the person behind it knows exactly what shoppers keep failing to find.

Cara Cara Dresses and Knitwear

Cara Cara Dresses and Knitwear

Cara Cara started in 2019 as a New York apartment project among three friends, Julia Brown, Katie Hobbs and Sasha Martin, who had spent a combined fifty years in fashion design, digital media and finance before deciding to build something of their own. The label's whole identity traces back to a single print, a sun drenched orange pattern that gave the brand its name and its permanent obsession with color and warmth.

Roger Vivier Shoes

Roger Vivier Shoes

Roger Vivier opened his own atelier in Paris in 1937 after studying sculpture at the École des Beaux-Arts, and by 1953 he was designing shoes exclusively for Christian Dior, the first time a couturier ever let a shoemaker's name share a label with his own. In 1954 Vivier is credited with engineering the modern stiletto heel using a thin steel rod for structure, and he went on to design the buckled pump later worn by Catherine Deneuve in Belle de Jour.

LoveShackFancy Dresses and Knitwear

LoveShackFancy Dresses and Knitwear

Rebecca Hessel Cohen, formerly a fashion and beauty editor at Cosmopolitan, started LoveShackFancy in 2013 after designing her own halter wedding dress and realizing she wanted to keep making things like it. The label's whole visual language, ruffles, florals, puffed sleeves, vintage-leaning silhouettes, grew out of that single dress and a first capsule sold out of the trunk of her car before any store carried it.

Gianvito Rossi Shoes

Gianvito Rossi Shoes

Gianvito Rossi launched his own footwear label in Milan in 2006, after years working alongside his father, the shoe designer Sergio Rossi, in the family's factories in San Mauro Pascoli. The house built its name on a handful of disciplined, unembellished silhouettes, chiefly the Gianvito 105 pump and the Portofino sandal, made with the same regional Italian craftsmanship he grew up around.

Pillow Talk

Pillow Talk

Cloud-soft knits, cashmere cardigans, lace camisoles and cozy socks for days that call for comfort. For anyone who wants to look put together while feeling like they are still in pajamas.

Bembien Bags and Shoes

Bembien Bags and Shoes

Yi-Mei Truxes launched Bembien in 2017 in Brooklyn after six years running marketing for Vogue, following a chance sighting of a stranger's disheveled straw bag on a downtown street. The label works almost entirely through artisan weavers in Bali, treating a basket bag as a craft object rather than a factory good

SIMKHAI Dresses and Bags

SIMKHAI Dresses and Bags

Jonathan Simkhai launched his namesake label in New York in 2010, coming out of his family's apparel manufacturing business and training at Parsons and the Fashion Institute of Technology. The brand built its name on draped eveningwear and body-conscious tailoring, won the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund in 2015, moved its studio to Los Angeles in 2018, and dropped Jonathan's first name from the label in 2023 to put the focus on the wider team.