fashion week round-up
Keep asking:
What emotion do I feel when I see this designer’s work — calm, tension, nostalgia, thrill?
What forms repeat across what I love — strong shoulders, column silhouettes, earthy tones, slick minimalism?
What textures make me pause — matte, glossy, tactile, sheer?
You’re training your brain to identify patterns of pleasure. That’s taste.
How to Read a Collection
1. Context & Conversation
Who: Who designed it? What’s their background and prior house (if any)?
Where: Which fashion house is this for? What are that house’s historic codes (silhouettes, motifs, colors, materials)?
How: How does this designer engage those codes — homage, reinvention, or rebellion?
2. Silhouette & Proportion
Wha
Jonathan Anderson for Dior SS26 | I love this blazer, wonderfully impractical
Jonathan Anderson for Dior SS26 | I love the skirt, the hat is giving handmaids tale
“Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.”
Coco Chanel
Chanel motifs
Tweed suit
Camellias
Colors: Black, white, beige, gold
Pearls & chains
Quilting & Gold Buttons
"For this first Chanel show, I wanted to do something quite universal, like a dream, something outside of time, and I was fascinated by the stars, a theme so dear to the House," Blazy said in an Instagram post caption. "We all observe the same sky, and I think it provokes the same emotions in us."
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Matthieu Blazy for Chanel SS26
Matthieu Blazy for Chanel SS26
Crying. I would wear an envelope if it were burgundy I fear