Samuel Hine

“How do I bring politics into this?” asked the outspoken designer hours before winning back-to-back CFDA menswear prizes.

The star-studded, mind-bending Moncler Genius bash was practically an entire fashion week in four hours.

With a show about the complex history of Black dandyism, the Met Costume Institute will spotlight the powerful influence Black culture has had on menswear.

Unpacking the whirlwind of designer appointments that could reconfigure menswear—again.

Hours after Slimane’s exit, Celine appointed Ralph Lauren alum Michael Rider as artistic director.

Everything you need to know about the most anticipated show of Paris Fashion Week.

Outdoor runway shows are at the mercy of the weather. Which is why some brands have mediums on speed dial.

Glenn Martens talks club-rat couture and discusses his exit from Y/Project.

This season, Thom Browne traded the runway for a raucous Cole Escola-hosted dinner party. More designers are following suit.

Alexander McQueen alum Sarah Burton is filling the role left vacant since January.

Ralph Lauren, Usher, Lucky Blue Smith, and more speak on a major American fashion moment.

The appointment immediately drew praise from fashion fans—and Tom Ford himself.

“Developing the collection was a bit like designing costumes for the stars of a movie,” says Giorgio Armani of his cinematic, Scorsese-starring collaboration with Ronnie Fieg.

He’s the most influential designer of the past decade. He’s also the most controversial. Now the creative director of Balenciaga is exploring a surprising source of inspiration: happiness. GQ’s Samuel Hine witnesses the dawn of Demna’s new era, in Paris, New York, and Shanghai.

Time Again has brought a Clipse concert and weeknight block parties to the outer regions of Dimes Square.

Inside footwear superstar Thibo Denis’s post-Dior plans, and catching up on Idris Balogun’s leap to Lacoste.

After eight years of merch magic, Alix Ross and Elijah Funk are splitting. Their final joint project is an A24 coffee table book documenting their restlessly creative collaboration.

Approximately 36 hours after Dries Van Noten waved goodbye at the closing of his last-ever runway show, the legendary Belgian fashion designer is sitting in his sunny showroom in Paris. It’s another Monday morning at the office, with chicly dressed employees clacking away at computers. Wearing his signature navy jumper with khakis and tan leather shoes, the 66-year-old is brisk and well-rested. “I slept last night, which was not the case the nights before,” he says with a smile. As we settle in…

This is an edition of the newsletter Show Notes, in which Samuel Hine reports from the front row of the global fashion week circuit. Sign up here to get it in your inbox. “It’s all a little bit overwhelming,” Dries Van Noten told me. On Saturday night, the legendary Belgian fashion designer was working the room before his swan song runway show, hugging and kissing a steady stream of friends and admirers who had come from far and wide to send off the fashion hall of famer into retirement. It was…

A$AP Rocky has had ambitions in the fashion world for as long as he can remember. On Friday night, he’s bringing his multi-layered, zeitgeisty style to the Paris Fashion Week stage, where he’ll launch a collection under the moniker of his creative agency, AWGE. An invite to the off-calendar show hit my inbox just over a week ago. The email was light on details, but the collection title, American Sabotage, suggested that Flacko was planning something weightier than the typical celebrity-led appar…