FRIDAY, MAY 22, 2026VOL. XXVI · NO. 17
Section — Fashion

Fashion.

What's worth wearing, what's worth paying for, and what to ignore.

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Richemont Grew 11%. Nobody Was Chasing You.

The numbers are in, and the industry isn't optimizing for aspiration anymore — it's optimizing for certainty.

MAY 22, 2026 · 3 min
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Outdoor Brands Stopped Apologizing for Wanting to Make Sneakers

A writer at Highsnobiety just said what the sneaker world has been circling for two years.

MAY 21, 2026 · 2 min
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Serious Collectors Wanted Permission to Have Fun. AP x Swatch Just Gave It.

When the gatekeepers start cheering, the gate was never really there.

MAY 21, 2026 · 4 min
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Swatch Had One Job at Every Store in the World Simultaneously

When a global launch collapses into crowd chaos, the question isn't whether it was planned—it's whether the plan was ever the point.

MAY 21, 2026 · 3 min
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Awake Stopped Whispering and Nobody Looked Away

A French indie brand layering Vietnamese lacquer over hand-engraved guilloché just changed the terms of what a small watchmaker is allowed to want.

MAY 20, 2026 · 2 min
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GU Has Been Winning in America Without Asking Anyone to Notice

A writer at Highsnobiety just staked out a position that's been sitting in plain sight.

MAY 19, 2026 · 3 min
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Isaac Mizrahi Is Going Back to Target, and Nobody Should Be Surprised

A designer returning to mass retail isn't a compromise anymore — it's a confession about where fashion actually lives.

MAY 18, 2026 · 2 min
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Times Square Swallowed the Show and Called It Fashion

Demna staged Gucci's Cruise 2027 in the middle of New York's most overstimulated block — and somewhere between the spectacle and the celebrities, the clothes had to fight for the room.

MAY 17, 2026 · 3 min
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Swatch Handed Everyone a Royal Oak and Watched What Happened Next

When a watch built on exclusivity gets a $400 version, the question was never about the watch.

MAY 16, 2026 · 5 min
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Patek Philippe Dressed Down Without Saying So

Two new Calatravas — one with a moon phase, one with an alarm — tell the same quiet story about where formality actually lives now.

MAY 15, 2026 · 3 min
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Seven Thousand People Came to Touch Something Real

Windup Watch Fair San Francisco 2026 didn't grow into a spectacle — it grew into a workshop.

MAY 15, 2026 · 3 min
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Seiko Turned 145 and Looked Backward to Move

The anniversary releases aren't nostalgia plays — they're Seiko making the case that its archives were always the argument.

MAY 14, 2026 · 3 min
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Hollywood Gave Anderson Everything Except an Answer

Dior's Cruise 2027 show at LACMA was full of electricity. Whether it added up to anything is a harder question.

MAY 14, 2026 · 3 min
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Showing Up Is No Longer Enough

Three scenes, three subcultures, one uncomfortable truth about what we're really performing when we think we're just living.

MAY 14, 2026 · 5 min
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Traceability Never Meant Honesty. It Meant Documentation.

A WWD piece on cotton risk and tariff shifts reveals that knowing where your fabric comes from and caring about it are two entirely different commitments.

MAY 14, 2026 · 3 min
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Time Slipped Off the Wrist, and Nobody Missed the Strap

When young collectors started reaching for pocket watches and clocks, they weren't being contrarian — they were asking what horology had always been afraid to answer.

MAY 13, 2026 · 5 min
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Carpet Company Walked Off the Board and Into the Woods

Their first non-skate shoe isn't a pivot — it's proof that the best taste was never about the terrain.

MAY 13, 2026 · 2 min
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Procell Reached Into a Living Room and Pulled Out a Sneaker

A New York vintage shop just made plastic sofa covers the most coveted material in footwear — and nobody's laughing.

MAY 13, 2026 · 3 min
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Two Million Dollars Said What Catalogues Won't

Watch auction records aren't just financial news — they're a referendum on what modern watchmaking has stopped offering.

MAY 12, 2026 · 3 min
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Ming Named It 'Peep Show' and Meant It as a Philosophy

The 29.06 isn't a dial — it's a moving argument about what watches are allowed to do.

MAY 12, 2026 · 3 min
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Royal Pop Doesn't Need Your Permission to Be Serious

Swatch and Audemars Piguet are releasing a collaboration watch, and the watch world is already arguing about what that means.

MAY 11, 2026 · 3 min
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Chanel Borrowed a Word From Coachbuilders, and Meant Every Letter of It

The J12 Superleggera isn't reaching for motorsport credibility — it's arriving with receipts.

MAY 11, 2026 · 3 min