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Wait…let me cook. Not to overwhelm you with internet speak, but walk with me on this one. Was the Autumn/Winter 2025 season the season of, as the kids say these days, ‘reheating nachos’?While this piece of online parlance — a metaphor for when someone does something that’s been done before, most commonly used to compare pop stars’ careers — is already overused, it’s true that this season, the remixes were particularly memorable. As it pertains to fashion, the premise as I see it is simple: ‘reheating nachos’ equates to designers revisiting their own past collections, those from the house they…

This article is part of our Advanced Membership package. To enjoy unlimited access to The Long View from Vogue Business, The Fashion Exec’s Guide and Market Insights Reports, sign up for Advanced Membership here.Want The Row’s Margaux, but can’t afford the $5,000 price tag? Cos’s $390 Bowling Bag is lauded as the high street’s best dupe yet. Or maybe a version of The Row’s viral $890 woven Mara flats are more to your taste — you can find strikingly similar pairs available on Amazon for sub-$40. Also on Amazon, a plethora of alternatives to Bottega Veneta’s $880 Small Drop earrings sell…

Tokyo style is a mixture. We have punk, luxury, high fashion, American traditional vintage and denim, and then Uniqlo and Muji — everything is mixed together here. It’s the same thing as our food — like how we mix pasta with natto [fermented soybeans]. It might sound weird, but it ends up being really good.Even though Japan is usually known for its menswear, we’ve also seen a lot of interesting womenswear designers rising lately, such as Viviano, Fetico, Harunobu Murata, Chika Kisada and Akiko Aoki. The fashion week schedule includes more strong womenswear than ever.Momo Angela, street style photographer at…

This article first appeared on Vogue Runway.Loewe announced today that Jonathan Anderson would be leaving his role as creative director. For just over 10 years, Anderson oversaw a transformational decade for the Spanish label, during which he took it from a small leather goods house to one of the most recognisable names in fashion, and certainly an insider favourite. Anderson’s tenure at Loewe will be remembered not for a singular aesthetic or sole It-product (though there were those too), but for his knack for constant evolution.Anderson’s early years at Loewe were defined by his fascination with craft; he honed in…

Demna, who in 2021 ceased using the surname Gvasalia, is without question one of the most original, innovative and influential designers of our time. Gucci, meanwhile, is Italy’s largest luxury fashion house by revenue. Despite a slump from its €10.5 billion peak in 2022, in 2024 it reported revenues of €7.65 billion, a sum more than double the €3.56 billion reported by Prada, financially its closest fellow Italian competitor.The challenge (and adventure) facing Demna at Gucci starts with deciding how to integrate the house’s codes and spirit to shape a freshly accented manifestation of his design language. Between Vetements’s foundation…

After a decade-long run, Demna is stepping down from Balenciaga, parent company Kering announced today.The Georgian designer, known mononymously as Demna, was appointed creative director of the Spanish house in October 2015, shortly after Vetements (the label he founded with his brother) showed for the first time at Paris Fashion Week. In the last decade, Demna brought Balenciaga to the forefront of the industry by consistently pushing the boundaries of fashion’s playbook. Notable collections and projects include Balenciaga’s 30-minute dress; the Spring/Summer 2022 collection that marked the brand’s post-pandemic return to the catwalks with a show within a show that…

Number one with a bullet bra! Miu Miu topped Vogue Runway’s most-viewed show list for the first time this season. The brand has been on a roll ever since its post-pandemic return to the runway for spring 2022. With its hacked-off cableknit sweaters and pelmet skirts and the endless midriffs in between, that show was nothing less than generation-defining. I never saw cropped tops at the office before Covid, and now nobody bats an eye at their proliferation.This Miu Miu collection, while more of a pastiche of past references than a silhouette story, has had a similar pulse-quickening effect on…

This article first appeared on Vogue Runway.Of all the names rumored for the Gucci role over the last month — and there were a lot of them — Demna, who was announced as its new artistic director today, is both the most obvious and the least.Obvious because he’s an internal hire, hiding in plain sight. Both Gucci and Balenciaga, where Demna has been creative director for nearly 10 years, are owned by Kering; the familiarity and comfort level on both sides will ease the transition. Also obvious because his Balenciaga was so original. Glancing back at his silhouette-shifting Balenciaga debut,…

“I won’t comment on current affairs. I was told not to. But I can quote the famous American philosopher Lady Gaga: fashion is the thing that saved me from being sad,” said Mytheresa CEO Michael Kliger at a dinner hosted by the German luxury multi-brand retailer for Australian designer Christopher Esber on Saturday.Lady Gaga’s line reflected the mood: Paris Fashion Week Autumn/Winter 2025 offered a solid season amid a geopolitical crisis, luxury slump, looming trade war and the woes of wholesale. Grounded collections, strong debuts and sunny weather — at least until Monday — put attendees in good spirits, even…

It was the worst IPO the US market had seen in two years. But the thing about legacy brands? They know how to weather a storm.Birkenstock CEO Oliver Reichert says that going public was the company’s second best option. The first would have been to keep the brand growing in a “peaceful, positive family atmosphere”, but decades of “complex” dynamics led Reichert (the first person outside of the Birkenstock family to run the company) into the arms of the New York Stock Exchange. He rang the bell alongside Alexandre Arnault, who has been a board member since 2023 (L Catterton,…