In the lead-up to New York fashion week, designers go through hundreds of behind-the-scenes preparations to arrive at the completed show. This NYFW, we’ve sweet-talked a few of them into giving us an exclusive peek behind the curtain as they cast, score, style, and ready their presentations. Next up: Max Osterweis and Erin Beatty of [...]

Nobody forgets their first time. But not everybody feels compelled to recall it in print. Credit where credit’s due, then, to the contributors to the latest issue of Dossier, Skye Parrott and Katherine Krause’s glossy biannual, which rounded up a cast of characters—from Alexis Bittar and Cynthia Rowley to Miranda July and arty nouveau-pornographer Richard [...]

Suno’s bold, mismatched prints—drawn from, and inspired by, African textiles—are so sunny, it’s always seemed like a shame not to bring them down to the beach. And while Max Osterweis and Erin Beatty have flirted with bandeau tops and swim-ish styles in the past, they’ve never been water-ready. But for Spring, the duo created their [...]

When Naomi Campbell swept into Le Montana last night for ANDAM winner Hakaan Yildirim’s after-party, she pursed her lips and gently shook her head at an intrepid reporter’s tape recorder in a gesture at least as old as Garbo. But no matter. The stonewalling supermodel’s presence itself spoke volumes. It may not have been the [...]

Porcelain: so delicate and refined a material—and an aesthetic suggestion—it’s actually surprising that Olivia Ma Corwin and Kai Ma Wilson (pictured) are the first designers to name a clothing label after it. But the hard/soft duality the sisters have established with their debut womenswear collection couldn’t be a better fit for the name. “The concept [...]

Though we sift through dozens of lookbooks daily, it’s rare that we come across a new line that’s both original and has covetable merch. But Suno is such a one. Designer Max Osterweis founded the label last year after a decade spent collecting textiles in Kenya. The resulting brightly patterned, clean-lined separates are each one-of-a-kind [...]