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10-02-2025
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Jonathan Cohen Fall 2025: Ladylike Glam, With a Sportif Twist
Picture this: the glamorously dressed Elizabeth Taylor screaming at boxing matches in the '60s. Turns out, these photographs do exist, and were prevalent on the mood board of Jonathan Cohen's fall 2025 collection. 'I thought how she looked at the boxing match was amazing,' the designer said, noting that in his research he learned that in 1963, Muhammad Ali (then known as Cassius Clay) was knocked out after becoming distracted by the ringside, screaming Hollywood starlet. More from WWD Gucci to Open a Buzzy Milan Fashion Week Next Month Building a Wardrobe With Milan Men's Fall 2025 Presentations Ashanti Hits High Notes in Adrienne Landau's Chinchilla Faux Fur Coat to Sing National Anthem at World Series 'In my head, I came up with this whole story of them meeting and maybe having a night out,' he said of fall's juxtaposition between the fashionable, ladylike star and the famous athlete. Throughout the fall collection, designs were inspired by both sides of the rope in artful ways. There were tiny boxing shorts, luxed up in blue velvet or silk satin featuring a smashed gardenia ceramic floral printed (inspired by one of Taylor's namesake perfumes); sportif striped ladylike dresses, pleated skirts and peplum tops, and knit boxing tanks on the sportiest end of the spectrum. Ditto Cohen's ultra-fun assortment of matching boxing boots, a part of his larger, ongoing shoe collaboration with Larroudé. Elsewhere, Taylor's eyes were woven into a great snow print leopard jacquard topcoat, and her favorite flower turned into embroideries on playful denim layers and a graphic white cotton shirt, or as a 3D floral embroidery on a striking evening look. Throughout the lineup, Cohen melded a strong sense of polish with playfulness, also seen through a lace-inset slashed leather skirt, lady jackets comprised of scrap materials and debut eyewear, designed to resemble singer-songwriter Siouxsie Sioux's signature strong eyebrow, in partnership with Selima Optique. 'We knew we didn't want to do our regular presentation format, so we came up with the concept of working with incredible women right in our lives,' Cohen said at his Sunday afternoon presentation, staged as a gallery at Rockefeller Center featuring fall's campaign imagery, mood board and mannequined looks. Along the gallery walls, attendees could see a handful of the closest women in Cohen's and his brand's life: cofounder Sarah Leff and her mother, Dede Kantorowitz-Leff; Dilone; Sally Singer; Batsheva Hay; Phyllis Kao; Jeauni Cassanova; Kimberly Drew; Marina Larroude; Joanna Gong; Gigi Burris; Mei Zou; Carola Righes; Sophie Conti; Brigitte Conti; Sarah Pidgeon, and his own mother, Elena Kassner. Launch Gallery: Jonathan Cohen Fall 2025 Ready-to-Wear Collection Best of WWD Windowsen RTW Spring 2022 Louis Shengtao Chen RTW Spring 2022 Vegan Fashion Week Returns to L.A. With Nous Etudions, Vegan Tiger on the Runway
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07-02-2025
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For Fall 2025, Tibi's Creative Pragmatist Took a Trip to Antwerp
In July, Tibi's founder and creative director Amy Smilovic and Traci Bui-Amar, senior vice president of design, took a trip to Antwerp, Belgium. Looking for inspiration, they were instantly taken by the city's fluid merging of heritage and modernity across architecture, interiors and locals' personal style. 'That's what we really tried to do with the clothing — lean into more luxury fabrics than ever before and into modern sculpture, but wherever we lean modern that we're completely meshing it with something that is just very classic and heritage at the same time,' Smilovic said the experimental twists demonstrated during a presentation in their SoHo space. More from WWD Gucci to Open a Buzzy Milan Fashion Week Next Month Building a Wardrobe With Milan Men's Fall 2025 Presentations Amy Smilovic Releases Second Edition of Well-loved Personal Style Guide, 'The Creative Pragmatist' 'This was our space that we bought in 2008, and we just got it back. We're turning it into the most amazing living room to meet with our clients in the future,' Smilovic said of the location, where they invited guests to get a behind-the-scenes look at their fall collection campaign and video in lieu of having a runway show. (Since the pandemic, the brand solely puts on runway shows for spring.) Here, the collection was hanging in a custom Antwerp apartment-style vignette, and against a backdrop featuring funky door knockers. Models were clad in such modern-meets-heritage garb as an ultra lightweight skirt suit crafted in a papery fabric that looked like traditional wool, or a standout neoprene cinched and tailored jacket with leather collar paired with leggy jeans that could be zipped off into Bermuda shorts. Each season, Smilovic is all about evolving her solutions-based philosophy. Fall continued that idea from the top down with a few nods to vintage moto style seen during their travels, and plenty of ease. For instance, elongated bomber jackets belted at the hem; utility-meets-jodhpur jeans featuring circular godets on the legs paired with a plaid shirt; boots with hidden internal wedges and wider leg shafts, as to emulate the shape of a dress under a pant; dresses that could be snapped up, or down and into a train; outerwear with internal backpack straps, and belts designed with motorcycle loops to hold the season's leather mittens. They, of course, featured flaps that enable the wearer to still use their phone — pragmatic head to toe. Launch Gallery: Tibi Fall 2025 Ready-to-Wear Collection Best of WWD Windowsen RTW Spring 2022 Louis Shengtao Chen RTW Spring 2022 Vegan Fashion Week Returns to L.A. With Nous Etudions, Vegan Tiger on the Runway
