Nicole Phelps

Rick Owens Fall 2024 Ready-to-Wear collection, runway looks, beauty, models, and reviews.

Vetements Fall 2024 Ready-to-Wear collection, runway looks, beauty, models, and reviews.

Yohji Yamamoto Fall 2024 Ready-to-Wear collection, runway looks, beauty, models, and reviews.

Duran Lantink Fall 2024 Ready-to-Wear collection, runway looks, beauty, models, and reviews.

Akris Fall 2024 Ready-to-Wear collection, runway looks, beauty, models, and reviews.

Sacai Fall 2024 Ready-to-Wear collection, runway looks, beauty, models, and reviews.

Nicole Phelps: There were 108 shows and presentations at Paris Fashion Week this season, a record, as our colleagues at Vogue Business pointed out. Too many to see them all, let alone come up with an organized way of ranking them from best to worst, and so we go on gut feelings, or, as Sarah Mower so memorably put it when remembering an agenda-setting Miuccia Prada show from the ’90s, “the nauseous sensation—where your stomach turns upside-down—when you know that you’re witnessing a fashion revo…

This article originally appeared on Vogue Business. To receive the Vogue Business newsletter, sign up here. Anthony Vaccarello’s latest show for Saint Laurent divided opinions, with the pros and cons often falling along gender lines. Male critics praised the singularity of Vaccarello’s vision of noirish after-dark glamour. Female writers pointed out the near impossibility of wearing such sheer clothes anywhere but a runway. As Barbara Kruger so succinctly put it in 1989, our bodies are a battleg…

Y/Project Fall 2024 Ready-to-Wear collection, runway looks, beauty, models, and reviews.

Mary Katrantzou has been named the creative director of leather goods and accessories at Bulgari. It’s a newly created position. Greek-born and based in London at the time, Katrantzou made a name for herself straight out of Central Saint Martins in the late aughts, specializing in the then-new medium of digital placement printing. From the start she had a fascination with jewelry. Her CSM MA collection, which was snapped up by the department store Browns, featured hyperreal trompe l’oeil images…