Jenna Adrian-Diaz

As brat summer winds to a close, girlhood and coquettishness seem poised for a goth-inflected evolution if Sabrina Carpenter, Jenna Ortega, Naomi Osaka, and Elena Velez are any indication.

Ahead of the official start of the U.S. Open, Swiss athleticwear brand On Running brought the worlds of sports, music, and fashion together in Brooklyn. A downtown-cool crowd turned out to the Brooklyn Navy Yard to see a match between tennis pros Ben Shelton and Flavio Cobolli. After the match, Yaeji, Memphy, Oscar Nñ and Young Teesh took turns spinning DJ sets for the crowd. Notables in attendance included Chris Black, Gabriela Karefa-Johnson, Danny Bowien, Alex Consani, Thomas Doherty, Honey Balenciaga, Julez Smith, Isan Elba, and more. Photo credit: Sansho Scott and Matt Borkowski/BFA.

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The Design Dispatch offers expertly written and essential news from the design world crafted by our dedicated team.

The Design Dispatch offers expertly written and essential news from the design world crafted by our dedicated team.

The Ohio-based textile artist crafts portraits of key Civil Rights figures and changemakers in her chosen medium as they practice their hard-won constitutional right to vote.

The purveyor of Americana prep embarks on the next stage of its post-bankruptcy return with an unexpected development: a catalog that has more in common with the print magazines of yesteryear.

This year's Armory Show kickoff party was a change of pace for the 30-year-old art fair, marking its first edition as part of Frieze Americas. As such, The Armory's Kyla McMillan and Frieze's Christine Messineo welcomed VIP artists and collectors to a celebratory night at the National Arts Club on Sept. 4. DJ Fulathela spun tunes and guests were treated to a performance by musical collective Standing on the Corner. Notables in attendance included Storm Ascher, Sheree Hovespian, Rashid Johnson, Tyler Mitchell, Miles Greenberg, Tschabalala Self, Kilo Kish, Roze Traore, and more. Photo credit: Kyle Goldberg and Tiffany Sage/BFA.

On Sept. 5, Black in Fashion Council leaders Sandrine Charles and Lindsay Peoples hosted stylists, editors, designers, and industry professionals for cocktails and a seated dinner to celebrate the Spring/Summer 2025 New York Fashion Week season. Charles and Peoples founded the council to advocate for systemic change within the industry, and last week's gathering saw the organization's members and friends come together to celebrate its biggest week of the fall. Notables in attendance included Ib Kamara, Naomi Elizée, Charles Harbison, Kesha McLeod, Marquise Miller, Trevor Swain, Telsha Anderson, and more. Photo credit: Shane Drummond/Bre Johnson for BFA.

Designers hit—or approached—their strides as they showed collections that embodied clarity of vision, sharpened attention to market forces, with some going so far as to reframe Americana entirely.