Every season theres a newcomer to discover.
(Recent breakouts includeColleen Allen,Zoe Gustavia Anna Whalen, andJane Wade.)
This has helped New York regain its reputation as a place where talent is born.
Grace Gui, fall 2025
Because theres terrific fashion in New York City, if you know where to look.
Scroll through to discover their work.
Grace Guis fall 2025 presentation.
Grace Guis Novel Sustainable Knitwear Asks What Are We Leaving Behind for the Next Generation?
Theres a WeChat group in every town with a silk worm dealer.
We used the silk cocoons to wash our faces.
The 21-year old designer is still in schoolshes studying knitwear business and bio-textiles at Gallatin.
She calls her project farm-to-fashion.
Who will carry your inheritance?Laia Garcia-Furtado
The closing look at Pipenco.
Dracula himself, in Cat in the Hat headgear and feathers, made a dramatic appearance at LorenaPipencos show.
The collection was a reimagining of the dark tale, based on the Romanian versions she heard growing up.
Pipencos mission was to rewrite these women into historyin a big way.
Exaggerated sizes and shapes are defining characteristics of Pipencos work.
These are clothes as armor meant to create a powerful moment for the model.
Still there were glimpses of skin visible through snagged knits hung with chandelier crystals.
Peter Pan collars suggested a certain primness, but always with a campy sense of fun.
My family, they decorate the house really crazily, [there are] weird textures everywhere.
The story of Dracula is always about him, Pipenco said.
Its just that idea that women are kind of everywhere.
And not to be ignored.Laird Borrelli-Persson
This model set the mood at the Leblanc Studios runway show.
There is a big community of Dominicans in New York.
Have you asked yourself recently after looking at the news, how are we back here?
Many of us have, including these designers.
Durkees work is part of a New York tradition that approaches fashion with irreverence and humor.
This collection was centered on the idea of a post-apocalyptic, dystopian celebrity talk show.
Most interesting was the way he embraced the notion of destroying so you can create.
Durkee is only getting started.
