Thoughts on the eternal Creative Director shuffle, a cargo pants redux, and a sale at Réalisation Par.
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This week, EVERYTHING is changing in the Creative Director roster, cargo pants are paid their dues, iconic New Yorkers give their fragrance recs, summer lines for both max- and minimalists finally reveal themselves to early bird customers, a few incredible apothecary-style sales are on, and more.
The latest long-ish reads from the brightest minds in fashion.
For Back Row, Amy Odell writes “The Biggest Wins and Fails from Fashion Month,” documenting and deliberating upon the directorial debuts, disasters, and Doechii appearances that defined the FW25 season.
“Addressed: How to Style Cargo Pants” by Laia Garcia-Furtado for Vogue is an educational trip through runway references, referencing Nicolas Ghesquiere’s 2002 Balenciaga trousers as well as the recent Coperni “cargo tights” and many more sartorial coups in advising us, with a whimsical sensibility, how best to style the spring staple.
Totally Recommend shares “I Spent $13,275 Trying to Buy Hope,” detailing a score of “wellness”-coded purchases from facial acupuncture to Goop shampoo that did little but drain her bank account and fill her with shame. A great prophylactic as we enter possibly the most beauty-pushing season of the year and the words “bikini body” threaten us from every newsstand once again.
The iconic fashion journalist featured in “Selleb Spotlight: Avery Trufelman (Articles of Interest Podcast)” shares some of her latest purchases, introducing us to a handful of niche designers and homeware artisans who adorn her and her Brooklyn brownstone.
The Dry Down Diaries by Christina Loff is one of the best fragrance publications currently in “print,” and “Perfume recs from New Yorkers vol. 2” delivers on that claim, polling personalities such as Batsheva Hay and Liana Satenstein on their scents du jour, from Marissa Zappas to Amouage to Brazilian body oils.
What to keep in mind — and look forward to — in the past and coming weeks.
As was foreshadowed all season, Jonathan Anderson is leaving Loewe, likely headed to replace Maria Grazia Chiuri at Dior—a New York Times article on the switch-up rightfully criticizes the fantasy football-esque fixation upon Creative Director shuffles that dampens the impact of news like this, as it’s hardly coming without months and months of warning. Anderson’s complete resuscitation of the Spanish label will live on everywhere from the runways to TheRealReal’s meme-y social media campaigns, and whoever lines up to take over at Loewe will have unfathomably large shoes to fill.
We invoked the name of Demna too casually last week, and look what we’ve done… The designer known for his superfluously provocative campaigns, streetwear cribbing from the stylings of marginalized communities, and hype-y focus on merchandise as opposed to couture is going to Gucci. The brand has been flailing since Alessandro Michele’s departure in 2022, so this chaotic appointment seems fitting for a label with little to lose.
Get early access to Siedres’ SS25, a collection full of muted tones in preppy, Challengers-adjacent sporty stylings butting up against romantic lacy numbers in the bohemian harmonies that will define this summer’s fashion M.O. Remember, “boho” is just a sloppy conception of romance plus prep, and when it’s boiled down to those components, it seems a lot more appealing than imagining a beleaguered Coachella 2009 attendee’s wardrobe.
For more minimalist warm-weather dressers, early access is also available to the latest drop from Studio Nicholson—no other brand, even Lemaire or Totême, is doing summer like this label. At the link, you’ll find crisp short suits, roomy barrel-legged trousers, and more put-together but louche spring/summer basics with which to create a compelling wardrobe.
Sign up to be among the first to shop the Nanushka x Asics Sportstyle collab, a union that promises a few colorways of gorgeous, slightly perverse lacy trainers that combine the highs and lows of Eastern European aesthetics into one fetish-inspiring pair of shoes.
Less about impulse buys — and more about tracking discounts on the pieces already on your wishlist.
It is time for the Clyde Spring Archive Sale, and this year’s is full of woven hats, fingerless leather gloves, and tons more unique but utilitarian statement accessories that will define your wardrobe each season.
Like a modern-day apothecary, Kindred Black offers a sale on the styles of glass bottles it is phasing out, filling them with anointing oils made of chamomile, neroli, and other plants with nurturing and soothing properties.
Jorum Studio celebrates National Fragrance Week until March 23 with a 15% discount on its entire site of scents using NFW2025—I highly recommend trying one of the Scottish brand’s delightful discovery sets full of herbal, cozy, emotional perfumes before buying a full bottle, though I had to go for one of “Unspoken Gesture,” a moving melange of cardamom, hazelnut and fig, unlike anything I’d ever smelled before.
Use HONEY to take 20% off everything at Réalisation Par—if there were ever a place to find a sundress, this would be it (and doesn’t this polka dot number look like that discontinued Saks Potts dress everyone was in a tizzy about two years ago?).
Take a sweet 50% off tons of Bally clothes and accessories exclusive to its online store, including plenty of leather boots, belts, and bags that transcend season and will look as fresh in a few years as they do now. 🌀
Em Seely-Katz is the creator of the fashion blog Esque, the News Editor of HALOSCOPE, and a writer, stylist, and anime-watcher about town. You can usually find them writing copy for niche perfume houses or making awful collages at @that.esque on Instagram.