Thoughts on dress pajamas, the Proenza Schouler boys going to Loewe, and Prada FW25.
Welcome to The HALO Report — HALOSCOPE’s new weekly digest, an of-the-moment mix of news items, opinion pieces, and sale announcements designed to keep you posted on the nitty-gritty of the fashion world and all of its tangents without having to keep a constant eye on your feed.
This week, a surprising movie inspires Willy Chavarria’s color palettes, bags feel naked without their own little belts, Paula Canovas del Vas releases shoes that stick their tongues out at us, short people finally have jeans that don’t need tailoring (they’re half off right now!), and more.
The latest long-ish reads from the brightest minds in fashion.
“The Movies That Fashion Designers Watch Again and Again” by Emilia Petrarca for The New York Times reveals some new red strings to tack onto our Always Sunny-style board tracking the influences that dominate today’s fashion world — Willy Chavarria never forgot the color palette of The Exorcist, Clare Waight Keller was enamored with Margot’s coat in The Royal Tenenbaums, and the pacing of In the Mood for Love continues to move Simone Rocha, for starters.
Though skincare is relegated to the realm of “beauty,” isn’t “beauty” just one facet of fashion? It’s inarguable that one’s style extends past the bounds of their clothing and into their body, so “Dermorexia: Is our obsession with skincare becoming a disorder?” by Sara Radin for Dazed is a hauntingly relevant “trend piece” of sorts, tracking the potentially destructive state of skincare today back to, of course, the trauma of the pandemic, among other collective crises.
MacKinley Jade’s newsletter Yeehawt provides yet another perspective on the January-induced impulse toward minimizing one’s consumption in “Reaching No-Buy Nirvana,” which includes the truly Zen epigram: “Thank you, cool item, for teaching me something about my taste, now be free!”
After watching what felt like a thousand of Helena Yoonie Kim’s mesmerizing restorations of vintage Coach bags and fixating upon the SoHo Belted Buckle Pouch specifically, I was tickled to see Kelsey Stiegman of Vogue ask “Why Does Everyone Have a Belted Bag Now?” As I would say if I were on a press tour for The HALO Report: “I didn’t know this was happening…!”
Vogue mainstay Laird Borrelli-Persson penned “Brandon Morris’s Ghost Dresses Have a Haunting Beauty,” a review that covers one of the season’s most compelling sculpture shows (you can catch it at Europa Gallery in NYC), full of greenish resin gowns that occupy the space with an eerie elegance.
What to keep in mind — and look forward to — in the past and coming weeks.
The latest from Paula Canovas del Vas, now available at SSENSE, includes a frizzy-haired, sparkly-winged Little Black Dress, trousers with drapey side panels like parentheses around the legs, and perhaps most compellingly, patent pumps with vamps that curl up and out like devious tongues making obscene gestures.
Fashion Month begins with its first round of menswear shows — opinions vary on the Prada FW25 showing from Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons, with some fixated on its erotic details, like thick waistbands bulging under fitted knit T-shirts, and others calling the collection misguided and uninspired. So it goes.
While Jake Silbert at Highsnobiety goes full conspiracy theory trying to determine Jonathan Anderson’s next move after a potential departure from Loewe (Dior?), The New York Times’ Vanessa Friedman reports on the founders of Proenza Schouler, Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez, stepping down from their positions as co-creative directors. Will they step up to bat at Loewe next? Stay tuned.
Chelsea Mak’s latest offerings include some pieces decked in 100% silk ruffles (I was lucky enough to see a few in person at Stand Up Comedy last week, and the Maud Top has not left my mind since), plus a pair of red “Lucky Briefs” in honor of the Lunar New Year, for which wearing red underwear is said to be auspicious, with a portion of proceeds going to post-fire aid in Los Angeles.
The recent drop from Rachel Comey is comprised of pieces that, while dutifully grounded in winter wearability material-wise (think knit turtlenecks and denim sets), carry a sense of waiting for spring in their acid-washed colorways and frisky patterns.
Less about impulse buys — and more about tracking discounts on the pieces already on your wishlist.
Though the phrase “dress pajamas” may bring back harrowing visions of pandemic years past, Sleeper’s sale takes up to half off sequined, feathered, and otherwise adorned “sleepwear” designed to translate from bed to bar with minimal embarrassment and is well worth checking out.
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A carefully chosen array of minimalist-leaning brands like Lauren Manoogian, Black Crane, and Baserange get price cuts up to 60% in the No. 6 Store winter sale, where you’ll find everything from shoes to outerwear to affordable-but-precious jewelry.
Nelle Atelier, the heaven-sent haven for denim designed specifically for those 5’4” and under, offers 50% off a small but robust assortment of clearance jeans for the shortest among us.
Thoughtfully crafted jewelry, thigh-high boots, and more accessories are available for big price cuts — some pieces cost under $40 — in the Justine Clenquet seasonal sale.
Anna Sui’s underrated, weirdo-witchy-retro-academic ethos permeates its FW24 sale, with pieces such as argyle knits and quirked-up pleated skirts now up to 30% off.
Take an additional 10% off the already-up-to-half-off sale section at Hope Stockholm with EXTRA10 — wrap coats, androgynous trousers, and edgy knits still abound.
Add anything from Vaquera's already-on-sale inventory to your cart and receive an extra 20% off automatically at checkout—fancy a dress made entirely of ruffles (which, as we've noted in THR, have usurped the bow mere weeks into 2025) or a purse shaped like a case for a miniature violin? 🌀