The arrival of New York Fashion Week S/S 2025 heralds the beginning of a month-long stint of runway shows, which will continue through September with stops in London and Milan, before culminating in Paris with a nine-day schedule ending on 1 October 2024. By then, designers will have offered a vision for the season ahead, including a roster of creative directors making their anticipated debuts – most notably ex-Gucci designer Alessandro Michele, who will make his mark on Roman house Valentino with a show in Paris at the end of September.
Before all that, though, New York Fashion Week – which concluded yesterday (10 September 2024) – made for a buzzy opening act. Beginning proceedings was Pieter Mulier’s Alaïa, transplanting from Paris to New York for a show on the evening of 6 September at New York’s Guggenheim Museum, seeing the designer play ode to the ease and fluidity of American sportswear, referencing figures like Claire McCardell, Halston and Charles James. Also shifting cities was COS – the London-based label returned to New York after a show last season at Rome’s Corsie Sistine – and Off-White, which showed at Brooklyn Bridge Park, moving from its usual slot on the Paris schedule.
