Virginia Smith

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After over a month of shows, presentations, appointments, and parties, the Spring 2019 season came to a close on Tuesday. Things ended on a high note in Paris, where Chanel, Louis Vuitton, Paco Rabanne, Valentino, and Balenciaga made it not only onto Vogue’s list of best shows, but also topped Fashion Director Virginia Smith’s edit of the city’s 10 most important looks. Her favorites cover a broad spectrum, from bohemian prints to simple suiting and even a pair of jeans. Consider it a sneak peek…

Which looks from New York Fashion Week are really going to move the needle? Leave it to Vogue Fashion Director Virginia Smith to pinpoint the ruffled dresses, patchwork skirts, and jeans that will trigger trends, show up on red carpets, and otherwise remain in our memory for the next six months. In New York, her Top 10 list spanned the week’s biggest themes, from a celebration of heritage (Ralph Lauren’s 50th anniversary show) to exhilarating outings from new-gen designers (Eckhaus Latta, Gypsy…

Vogue’s Virginia Smith Picks Her Top 10 Looks From Paris Fashion Week

Vogue’s Virginia Smith Picks Her Top 10 Looks From New York Fashion Week Fall 2018

Vogue’s Virginia Smith Chooses the Top 10 Looks From Paris Fashion Week

Vogue’s Fashion Market and Accessories Director distills a jam-packed New York Fashion Week down to the 10 most important looks.

The biggest statement for spring is this: the joy to be had from uplifting, positive-thinking, and—perhaps most strongly—wearable fashion. While in previous seasons we’ve been transported by the daring and theatrical flourishes on the runways (matched by those on the street dressing for the bloggerazzi), this coming season, like so many of the best designers, we’re all for a considered sense of urban simplicity, one rendered not through tricky styling or complicated layers but through graphic treatments, architectural lines, and three-dimensional shapes. It’s not that all the dazzle and daring of recent seasons hasn’t been exhilarating. It has. But it’s blissful to see spring is practically styling-free, down to the new no-fuss beauty. The season’s choppy, short hair mimics the unencumbered mood of the clothes. Don’t want to overthink styling every morning? Lop off the locks to just above the shoulder. And the face is natural and clean but unabashedly pretty. (With no makeup to hide behind,

In many arenas these days, it’s—to borrow a phrase from Beyoncé—girls who run the world (and where they don’t, perhaps they should). So what more appropriate message to see on fall’s runways than that of empowerment, with the best designers in New York, London, Milan, and Paris offering strong, chic, individual women new ways of dressing. The mood is adult and polished, with major embellishment, geometric prints, rich color, and lots of wonderful statement coats (that sometimes aren’t coats at all, but dresses or the like). In fact the shows effectively captured the extremism, wit, color, and imaginative spirit that will be celebrated this spring and summer when the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art displays the work of Miuccia Prada and Elsa Schiaparelli—two of fashion’s strongest women if ever there were.

Vogue has a first look at Louis Vuitton’s newest collaboration with iconic artist Jeff Koons.