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📰 What Designers Think About During Their Post-Show Bows {% if EntryImageUrl and EntryImageUrl != "" %} {% endif %} ✨ Fashion Insights & Trends: Don’t get it twisted: New York Fashion Week makes for a fun highlight reel on social media (what’s not to love about dressing up and running into celebrities?), but there’s plenty of chaos and tension behind the scenes that the public doesn’t always see. Editors camp out at coffee shops to file their stories before dashing to the next show; influencers hustle to post as much video content as possible; and publicists run around making last-minute seating changes and praying their clients’ events go on without a hitch. But no one seems to feel the NYFW pressure more than the designers themselves. For months, they work tirelessly to sew, cut, embroider and drape their collections to perfection. So we can only imagine the sigh of relief they take when they finally present their work and can take a ...

📰 Andrew Kwon Looks to the 'Mystery of the Natural World' for a Dreamy Spring 2027 Collection {% if EntryImageUrl and EntryImageUrl != "" %} {% endif %} ✨ Fashion Insights & Trends: One thing to know about Andrew Kwon? His designs will always whisk you away into a fantasy-scape. And on the last day of New York Fashion Week — when showgoers have reached their exhaustion limit — mentally escaping into another reality is exactly what’s needed. On Tuesday afternoon, the New York-based designer presented his Spring 2027 collection, titled “Séraphine.” Inspired by Nicolino Calyo’s painting, “Arcadian Landscape,” it explores femininity through the beauty and mystery of the natural world, according to the show notes. The resulting spring offering translates the movement of shifting lights and cascading waterfalls into iridescent fabrics and sweeping trains. Kwon incorporated more direct natural references through hand-...

📰 Heirlome Gives a Past Artisan Collaboration New Life for Spring 2027 {% if EntryImageUrl and EntryImageUrl != "" %} {% endif %} ✨ Fashion Insights & Trends: Each season, Heirlome collaborates with a Latin American artisan to help steer the design direction of its collections. For Spring 2027 — and the New York City-based label’s debut runway show — the inspiration actually stemmed from a 2023 trip to Oaxaca, Mexico. Heirlome Founder Stephanie Suberville visited Angelico Jimenez’s workshop, where the artist carved alebrijes (or fantastical wood sculptures), and partnered with Jimenez for the label’s Fall 2024 collection before his death later that year. Although Heirlome refuses to re-issue designs without the original artist’s permission, Jimenez’s daughter Maricarmen (a third-generation alebrijes artisan and a local shaman) asked Suberville to bring back the sold-out prints. Thus, Heirlome revisited Jimenez’s cra...