It's an age-old question: is fashion influencing interiors, or are interiors inspiring fashion? In sartorially-obsessed cities like New York, the answer often skews towards the former. But with designers like the Tanner Fletcher duo, who, as noted in the zine Blank Canvas, drafted their S/S 2025 collection “like an interior designer would design a room,” the lines between the two are increasingly blurred. Who started it? Outside the occasional press release, we may never know. Still, every time I see a pleated skirt, I can’t help but picture it as a lampshade. As with NYFW S/S 2025 — and as always — the two camps remain inextricably linked.
Take, for instance, Alaïa’s cyclic-centric collection at the Guggenheim, where Pieter Mulier’s foray into the city spiraled serendipitously from catwalk to construction — I couldn’t help but think of staircases. Americana bedrock Ralph Lauren fittingly showed in the Hamptons — or rather, “Ralphampton” — and amidst the polo fields, white picket fences, and sharp suiting, I pictured a sleek pinstripe armchair. As for Tory Burch’s sportif spring, it was the power and grace of abstract animal prints that sparked visions of bold, imaginative upholstery.
