Loro Piana AW25 Campaign
I find myself writing this only days after returning from Milan, where the air—still weighted with the residue of late-summer humidity and the faint, persistent tremor of industry anticipation—felt almost eerily aligned with the release of Lord Piana’s latest campaign. It is a campaign that, for reasons both aesthetic and personal, has already been described by several contributing editors as “a soft revolution,” the sort of work that slips in quietly but lingers long after the typical commercial cycle has moved on.
THIS BAG WEIGHS MORE THAN MY EMOTIONAL BAGGAGE!!!!
There’s a kind of poetry in the way we’ve all collectively decided that small bags are, frankly, over. Too delicate. Too curated. Too “I only carry my keys and confidence.” This season, the pendulum has swung hard in the opposite direction—toward the Maxi Bag, that unapologetically oversized emblem of chaos and chic practicality.
KLUM-O-WEEN
Okay so—Heidi Klum. The Queen of Halloween, which sounds dramatic until you realize it’s actually true. Like, I used to think Halloween was about face paint and those last-minute CVS wigs that smell vaguely like burnt plastic and regret, but Heidi… she made it an art form. Every year, this woman shows up to her own party looking like something between a science experiment and a fever dream—and I mean that in the highest possible compliment.
Versace Fall 2025
The looming possibility of a Versace sale cast a long shadow over tonight’s show, turning the usual spectacle into something more charged, more uncertain. As the fashion crowd settled into the tram depot where it was staged, the murmurs were inevitable—was this Donatella Versace’s final bow? And if so, what would Versace even be without Donatella?
Roberto Cavalli Fall 2025
Just yesterday, archaeologists announced the discovery of new frescoes in Pompeii—thirty to forty A.D., depicting the initiation rites of Dionysus’s devotees. Perfect timing. Fausto Puglisi, for his part, had already decided that his latest Cavalli outing would center on Pompeii—the ancient pleasure palace of a city, decadent and doomed in equal measure, smothered in volcanic ash nearly two millennia ago. It was love at first sight for him, or so the story goes—he first visited as a child, and it stayed with him, the way ancient beauty and sudden catastrophe tend to do.
Prada Fall 2025
After the Prada show, a photographer—cheeky, exasperated, perhaps both—asked what, exactly, Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons had been up to this season. When the answer came—“interrogating femininity,” specifically, “what is feminine beauty today?”—he snorted: “Er, double Ds.” It was a joke, obviously, but not an inaccurate one. Idealized beauty remains the defining obsession of our age, only now it’s purchasable—nipped, tucked, lasered, and filtered into a kind of eerie digital perfection, a symmetry so precise it could only exist in the uncanny valley.