Chika Kisada Tokyo Fall 2025

Chika Kisada is mad. The designer, a former ballet dancer who references the dance form in her tulle-accented womenswear, might well be in her Black Swan era. This time she has pirouetted away from the barre and into the nightclub, …

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Viviano Tokyo Fall 2025

Viviano’s fall collection took place on an old-fashioned suspended runway under a gigantic static disco ball in the grand setting of Tokyo’s Yebisu Garden Place. Viviano Sue, who is an old-fashioned romantic, titled it “Colpo di Fulmine” (an Italian phrase …

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Stein Fall 2025 Ready-to-Wear

Ssstein’s Kiichiro Asakawa is Japan’s high wizard of quiet luxury, and over the past few years he’s transformed his brand into a subtle force to be reckoned with. Having started in 2016 with just three pairs of trousers, ssstein (with …

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Elie Saab Spring 2025 Ready-to-Wear

On learning that the conceptual points of departure for Elie Saab’s spring collection were “the sultry African air” and “sun-soaked savannah days beneath endless blue skies,” as this season’s show notes read, this reviewer will concede that they braced for …

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