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Meruert Tolegen's Secret Ingredient for Fall 2026 Is Synthetic Hair – Latest Fashion Trends & Style Tips February 13, 2026 at 12:27AM

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📰 Meruert Tolegen's Secret Ingredient for Fall 2026 Is Synthetic Hair ✨ Fashion Insights & Trends: After the sun set on the first day of New York Fashion Week, Meruert Tolegen whisked showgoers away from the city's snow-covered sidewalks and welcomed them into a moody, cavernous abyss filled with sculptural styles. Live violinist Taisiya Losmakova flooded the label's SoHo flagship with serene music while statuesque models stood atop wooden platforms before periodically trading places, as if participating in a high-fashion chess match. Tolegen's design signatures were on full display via exaggerated hip silhouettes, stiff corseted dresses and a subdued color palette. The designer often employs eye-catching fabrics and "quirky" uses of materials, with this season's collection spotlighting synthetic hair as its own fabrication. One of the Fall 2026 collection's standout garments is a cropped jacket completely made from synthetic hair that is bask...

Tory Burch Applies the Longevity Craze to Fashion for Fall 2026 – Latest Fashion Trends & Style Tips February 12, 2026 at 10:33PM

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📰 Tory Burch Applies the Longevity Craze to Fashion for Fall 2026 ✨ Fashion Insights & Trends: When designing her Fall 2026 collection, Tory Burch went back to "familiar territory," she told Fashionista in a press huddle backstage at her Wednesday night show. "Whether it was a pair of my dad's corduroy pants or a shetland sweater that we've crazy washed and made almost feel like cashmere — we treated it so much. I wanted things to feel a little safer, in a way." This return to softer, more palatable pieces is a direct reaction to the current state of the world, which Burch called "chaotic and desperate and sad." Rather than create garments that feel fleeting or timely to a fault, the designer opted to root each item in endurance: "I am obsessed with things around longevity. So, how do you have something that you can take today and wear 10 years from now and not really have a date in mind from when it existed, and it's still as fres...