Innholdsfortegnelse for No. 56 - Fall Fashion, Art, Design 2025 i L'OFFICIEL USA

New York designer Nili Lotan doesn’t play by fashion’s rulebook. Over 22 years, she has built a cult label without chasing trends or staging runway shows, relying instead on the soft power of art-fully tweaked basics. From the Mona shrunken army jacket to the Shon slouchy barrel-boyfriend jean, each piece has become a wardrobe staple. And while her sculptural-buckle Nili belt is unrivaled, she has never designed a viral handbag. Now, Lotan makes her boldest statement yet: a debut collection of 16 bags named for her favorite musicians. Crafted in Italy and Spain from premium materials and finished without logos, the bags translate Lotan’s signature shape-driven design into accessories. Classic silhouettes are refined with subtle twists: the Francoise crossbody combines leather and suede in a two-textured finish, while the Joni…

Aside from a straw bucket hat at the beach or a knit beanie in winter, I’ve never really been a hat girl. Wearing one for fashion rather than function always felt a little extra for my introvert personality type. This season, though, something shifted. On the Fall/Winter 2025 runways, chic little vintage-inspired hats had presence without pretense: Jackie O pillboxes at Emilia Wickstead and Markarian, flapper-esque cloches at Miu Miu and Brunello Cucinelli, sculptural berets at Dior and Altuzarra, silk chiffon–trimmed boaters and felted sailor hats at Chanel and Loro Piana. I was surprised to find myself wanting to try a topper and wondering if I could actually pull it off. When I mentioned my hesitation to milliner Gigi Burris, she invited me to her Chinatown studio during New York…

Jewelry lovers had plenty to covet in Michael Rider’s Celine debut, with stacks of enamel-and-brass signet rings, charm bracelets, and necklaces piled high. Everything was abundantly layered yet impeccably chic, recalling Phoebe Philo’s modern, playful take on polished maximalism, particularly in the arm parties that nodded to her Spring/Summer 2014 Brassaï graffiti–inspired sculptural cuffs in vibrant primary colors, and the boar-tusk charms that echoed her Spring/Summer 2015 serpent pendant. But it was also unmistakably Céline—as in Vipiana—channeling the founder’s love of eccentric, luxurious costume jewelry. In the 1980s and ‘90s, the maison favored substantial gold chains and whimsical Parisian motifs, from the horse-and-carriage and Arc de Triomphe (a nod to the landmark that inspired the intertwining double-C monogram) to the red elephant drawn by French cartoonist Raymond Peynet that served…

Once relegated to over-the-top—dare we say try-hard—status, sequins are suddenly everywhere. This season, the embellishment officially enters its nonchalant era, with It girls and tastemakers pairing their shiniest disk-adorned pieces with everything from lived-in denim to classic ribbed tanks. No longer exclusive to nightlife or New Year’s Eve, sequins are now considered a breezy, shimmery standard for brunch and the office alike. As temperatures drop, sequins are staging a full-on takeover of the coziest knitwear on this season’s runways. Designers embraced the interplay of sequined knits’ casual comfort and and festive spark throughout their Fall/Winter 2025 collections, from Fendi’s self-aware take—featuring methodically placed paillettes cascading down the shoulders of polished cardigans—to Brunello Cucinelli’s minimalist-meets-maximalist approach, to Tory Burch’s patterned interpretations. Thoughtfully scattered across soft yarns and woven into gentle threads,…

The Craftsman home aesthetic as we know it is defined by a few key elements: a resolute simplicity and practicality; an emphasis on handcrafted work; and an allegiance to nature and natural materials. While those may not sound like groundbreaking ideas today, they certainly were when American Craftsman architecture first emerged in the late 19th century. Spurred by the theories of art critic John Ruskin and work of designer William Morris, the offshoot of the late Victorian era’s British Arts & Crafts movement reflected a push against the rapid impersonal clip of industrialization—a notion that doesn’t seem farfetched in 2025, as technology exponentially alters how we create and consume. But the art of the classic isn’t lost on Jamie Haller. The 46-year-old fashion designer and historic home restoration specialist has…

Da’Vine Joy Randolph has always appreciated the finer things in life. As a kid, the Academy Award–winning actor idolized Miss Piggy’s ritzy style. When she wasn’t busy with endless afterschool activities (her parents encouraged a varied education in the arts), she spent her free time watching 1950s movies with her grandmother—a pastime that spawned an early obsession with Old Hollywood charm. “Even as a 5-year-old in Philadelphia, I was always trying to find ways to bring in the glamour,” says Randolph, now 39. “I loved how stunning the actresses looked, even when they were just lounging around. Their PJs would be a gown, a chiffon coat with feathers, and slippers that were like glass mules. It was just fabulous.” Street shoes weren’t allowed inside Randolph’s home, so her family members…

If you’ve been to an art or design fair in New York recently, you might have mistaken it for Fashion Week, caught up in the spectacle of jewelry displayed alongside art, furniture, lighting, and decorative objects. At TEFAF in May, New York jeweler Ana Khouri was among six jewelers represented across 91 international galleries and contemporary artists. Inspired by organic forms, she transformed her booth into a series of three-dimensional mixed-media collages, suspending her textural, hand-sculpted gold and diamond pieces on crumpled parchment paper so they seemed to grow from the walls. So too, at the Armory Show in September, where fair partner Sauer commanded the spotlight. The Brazilian fine jewelry house unveiled a collection that translated Francisco Brennand’s mythical sculptures of fruit and trees into brilliant tourmaline, rhodolite, and…

Picking out a fake used to be a game of spot-the-difference: comically misspelled logo, uneven stitching, chipped hardware. Today, with counterfeiting tactics more sophisticated than ever, “superfakes” can look and feel uncannily real. Shoppers can no longer judge by sight or touch alone. According to Certilogo, a Milan-based company that specializes in product authentication, the only way to give consumers a surefire way to confirm authenticity outside of buying from a physical brand store is to have a direct line to the manufacturers—which is exactly what the Milan-based company has been creating over the past 20 years. “Working together with a brand is the safest way of saying, Okay, this product is authentic,” says Michele Casucci, the founder and GM of Certilogo. After spending weeks trying to authenticate a watch…