But denim is new. And appropriate.

Part of Lady White's ongoing collaboration with the venerable Japanese maker Phigvel, this is the Los Angeles clothing label's "first exploration into denim," as Taylor Caruso, Lady White Co.'s Sales Director, puts it. Key details include custom 12oz selvedge denim in one-wash and faded finishes (Caruso cites the "rare artisanal washing process derived from stone- and hand-sanding), jeans that rework staple Phigvel silhouettes, and a pretty damn good hooded jacket that reconsiders a Lady White classic as something extra-sturdy.

But everyone does denim. Why is it suddenly a big deal that Lady White would, too?

It's all about the intent.

You don't spend 11 years perfecting one item at a time — first T-shirts, then another style of T-shirt, hoodies, then shirts... — to suddenly dip into new product categories willy-nilly. Good things are deliberate, which is as true of clothing as it is of any artistic endeavor. And Lady White is an essentialist clothing label of the finest sort: everything that matters, and nothing that doesn't.

So, it's fitting that it'd only do denim the right way, with a nearly 25-year-old company that specializes in only the best of everything. Phigvel's leather goods are peerless and its apparel stylings epitomize Brancusian workwear, both because they're pared back to perfection and because they look like what the sculptor actually wore.

So, consider Lady White's debut denim offering as the best of what it is: two pairs of basically perfect jeans and jackets so incredibly considered that the act of wearing them becomes effortless. As all good clothes ought to be.

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This latest version keeps that same low-key appeal, but gives the Brandon Westgate-designed silhouette a rather nice update in Reflection and Fairweather Blue.

The 508 takes its cues from classic skate footwear without going full bulky. The profile stays low, while the suede and mesh upper gives it that slightly scruffy, old-school feel that works so well on a skate shoe. The blue detailing adds a little something extra without being overwhelming.

What makes this one particularly easy to get behind is how little it tries to do. No giant sole, no overly technical-looking panels, no attempt to turn a skate shoe into a gorpy running shoe. It’s simply a good-looking New Balance with enough character to stop it feeling basic.

And despite being designed with Westgate for skating, the 508 doesn’t require the rest of your wardrobe to follow suit. It has that same easy appeal you’d expect from a classic New Balance, just with a little more attitude.

Basically, a skate shoe that doesn’t need to prove it’s a skate shoe.

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If nothing else, adidas is going to get quite literal with it.

White leather finds a home at the Three Stripes and heel tab, while gold adidas branding rounds out the sneaker's royal flavoring.

While adidas is prone to uniform enhancements in some cases, this shoe bets it all on rakish variety, with jewels of various sizes and colors that give the dressy sneaker some unraveled cool points. Homogeneity has no place where sneaker jewels are concerned.

Even when it comes to other sneakers like the Samba, adidas is quite fond of icing its best shoes out.

From glitter-kissed charm bracelets to fully bejeweled uppers, adidas' bling game has never been anything to play with. Halo-style studs along the upper feel like a natural progression from the brand's fine jewelry offerings.

Beyond the gem-heavy details, adidas keeps the Superstar's stylistic hallmarks in the fold: the rounded shell toe design, serrated Three Stripes and simple tonal laces.

Even with multihued stones in the mix, the Superstar stays a Superstar till the bitter, bejeweled end.

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We’re in the “go big or go home” era of modern shopping… and boy, has Prada got the memo. 

The Italian luxury label just opened the doors to Prada Galleria, a massive new store in central Milan that’s pure Pradamaxxing. Set within the historic, glass-ceiling Galleria Vittorio Emanuele, where Fratelli Prada opened his first store over a century ago, the Galleria has everything: clothes, bags, and accessories, sure, but also expanded exhibition spaces, a Milanese pastry shop, a screening room, and private salons. 

Retail spaces need a hook nowadays, be it the yoga studio at District Vision in Los Angeles or the pottery studio and Japanese restaurant at BASE in New York. But while some tacked-on extras hiding just past racks of pristine clothes can feel random, the sensory overload of Prada Galleria is a natural fit. 

That’s because its matriarchal leader, Miuccia Prada, has never stayed in a single lane: the Fondazione Prada art institution has been around for over 30 years, and food is as much a part of the brand as its nylon bags. There’s the Wes Anderson-designed cafe in Milan, but also the Mi Shang Prada Rong Zhai fine dining restaurant in Shanghai — designed by Wong Kar Wai, because of course — for the hungry and Prada-pilled.  

Given how much lore is baked into the brand, there are worse ways to spend a day than giving in to Prada’s pull and getting lost in this behemoth Galleria. 

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Legend (Instagram) has it that June, who also has a song entitled “Expensive Couches,” saw the Dune Sofa in Benjamin Paulin’s Paris studio and fell in love instantly. Good taste begets good taste, so who better than the rapper with a fine-tuned palette to revamp an archival Paulin classic as part of Paulin’s new “DroPPP” collaborative series?

June's signature, limited-edition take on Paulin's 1967 Tongue Chair wears the rapper's signature bright orange hue but is otherwise unchanged. Why fix what ain't broken? All June did was make a tasteful chair more tasteful (or at least more fun).

Symbolic of June's commitment to, well, himself, the vibrant orange previously came to define his Midnight Organic garments and adidas sneaker collaborations, even serving as the namesake behind a bunch of his songs, EPs, and albums.

But in true June fashion — remember this is the man whose daily driver is a McLaren — his biggest-ever foray with this inimitable hue comes in the form of €4,000 tongue-shaped chair.   

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And then, chaos ensues. But can the frenzied tidying up of your hallway or the fluffing up of your woven wool throw pillows on your overpriced sectional sofa truly be considered chaotic if it’s all in the name of connection? 

For some, a last-minute text like that can spark panic; but for someone like style architect and new age cultural it-girl Sierra Rena, it’s those kinds of messages she looks forward to the most. Thumbing back a swift “can’t wait,” in response, Rena carefully prepares her home for the frenetic arrival of her closest friends — an eclectic mix of hometown faces and her NYC orbit. In a career as hectic and demanding as the SIV founder's, having time to wind down with your inner circle is not only wanted but needed. 

“In this life, I’ve learned that I can’t do things without help,” the sartorial maximist says. “Having my community and their support gives me a lot of confidence. It’s reassuring, too, because it reminds me that I’m doing good — that I’m not just stuck with my own perception of myself.”

Cozied up in Rena’s conversation pit, the in-the-know crowd, dressed in each other’s IYKYK clothing brands or hard-to-get-but-worth-the-price pieces, trade secrets and share unhinged stories from the summer, sipping on Hennessy’s new Very Special Cocktails as the 24-year-old’s no-skips playlist sets the mood. It’s the foolproof recipe for restoring and recharging her energy, a must-have for riding out the highs and lows of her online whirlwind. 

Making her close-knit community feel comfortable in her home is one of Rena’s love languages. Coupled with her attention to detail — which also bleeds effortlessly into her blossoming brand and career — the style savant has all the makings of a dream host and an intentional friend. 

“I love making someone feel at home,” the stylist shares. “I want [my friends] to walk in here and be like ‘Wow, I don’t want to leave.’”  Her instinctive thoughtfulness, perhaps a reflection of her zodiac sign, shows the lengths she’ll go to for her loved ones, but it’s not one-sided; she always gets what she gives in return.

After moving to NYC, the Maryland native had to rebuild the strong support system she cultivated back home. And like any new 20-something in the city, bright-eyed and ready to take it all in, she cycled through some friendships and weathered her fair share of trying, subtweet-worthy seasons. But after these transitional phases, she's finally found “real ones” who ground and guide her when “shit hits the fan.” “They’re my safe space,” Rena says. “I love being surrounded by genuine people, and honesty is huge to me. I don’t like yes men; that’s never going to benefit anybody.” 

That mindset has helped her go far, because growing a social media following as large as Rena’s is one thing; translating that community IRL is another beast entirely. But having people in your corner who keep it real — while still keeping it cute — makes all the difference, even if you’re too stubborn to get with the program at first. “I listen a lot more and am more receptive to constructive criticism without taking it as a jab,” she confesses. “Before, I tried to figure out everything by myself, but now I really lean on my friends to tell me what I need to hear.”

With that level of openness and accountability, it’s no surprise why the Gen-Z tastemaker makes room for those reciprocal relationships in her off-hours. All the shared, sacred moments — including late-night dance parties fueled by sweet sips of Hennessy’s Very Special Cocktails — bring her back to center, curb burnout, and help her maintain a healthy balance between her personal and professional life. The cognac brand’s new selection of fruity ready-to-serve cocktails is the finishing touch for Rena to unwind and properly celebrate everything she’s built for herself. Choosing from a spread of flavors like Henny-Rita, Henny-Rita, and Henny Iced Tea, she and her crew let the pre-mixed drinks add to the laid-back atmosphere they cherish with just a quick pour over ice. 

“I can get burnt out quickly sometimes, because even when I have a break, my brain is always on go,” Rena admits. “Finding activities that take me away from my tasks is really, really important.” 

Whether she’s spending time alone or chilling with friends at her crib, she’s always making space for the things — and people — that bring her back to herself and keep burnout at bay.

And with her brand continuing to grow — kitschy campaigns and, of course, cool-girl-certified bags under its belt — Rena is making moves of her own, all worth celebrating with those closest to her. After all, they’re only a “wyd” text away.

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And Ronnie Fieg knows it.

I spoke with Fieg at Kith: the Footwear Archive, a sprawling exhibit showcasing "all 1,849 pairs from Ronnie Fieg’s footwear archive," according to the release, coinciding with Kith's 15th anniversary and documented in an Assouline-published (and literally gigantic) tome of the same name.

Sitting amidst nearly 2,000 collaborative shoes — which doesn't even include every piece of Kith- or Ronnie Fieg-designed footwear, by the way — Fieg was feeling good. Not cocky, not boastful. Good. Comfortable.

He knows that no one else has ever done what he's done before. And, almost assuredly, no one ever will again. He knows that he's him.

This conversation was condensed and edited for clarity.

Alright, just because we have to start somewhere: out of this giant collection of shoes from the past 15 years, do any stand out as "most" or "least" Kith?

There are almost 1900 shoes here, you know? Walking through the timeline of my work, there are definitely some earlier pieces that may feel "polarizing" but I wouldn't say I'd remove them from the timeline. Every piece here was a stepping stone or learning curve. There's a lot of evolution, so I can't single out a specific brand or shoe that stands out more than the rest.

As a whole, it really tells a story.

Yeah. And not only of my work. I launched a lot of silhouettes for brands, you know? So, you can see both the progression that we've had as a brand and what brands were offering over the years.

Going through it, there are a lot of throwbacks but I was especially struck by how modern the New Balance section is, especially that first shoe you did, the "Steel Blue" 999.

New Balance stands out as maybe the most timeless brand in the collection, at least as far as athletic footwear.

You ever think about running a shoe back exactly as it was?

No. I'm working on so many great forward-looking projects that I rarely look back unless it's a monumental anniversary like this.

I ask primarily because, looking around, you see a ton of people wearing Kith sneakers in their own way — do you ever think about how pants are gonna interact with the shoes?

Are you kidding? [laughs] 100 percent, man. You see that in the shoes themselves, how they take on different forms every couple years to work better with loose pants, tight pants, whatever's happening then. Some are timeless, though — like, you can wear the 999 with anything.

Honestly, though, I picture the shoes being worn with shorts, because I'm thinking about the full shoe. If I was to think about how they'd look under a pant, that'd change the dynamic entirely. I also think about the original purpose of the shoe, what it was intended to do. So, for athletic shoes, I'm thinking about their most athletic form, right?

What if a brand offers you an athletic-style shoe to work on, but you had another in mind?

It's not about what they offer us, it's more like coming together and defining our point of view. What can move the needle for them and for us. Usually, it'll start as a tactful exercise in thinking about what silhouettes we'd work on, figuring out the silhouette, and then looking at what the brand is already doing so that we can differentiate ourselves from that.

Sounds like a good amount of free reign.

It took a long time to gain the confidence to make bigger asks but there's a lot more trust now. It's always a push and pull.

I imagine that's how you end up with stuff like the three-way adidas Clarks collab.

That was a tough conversation to have, you know? And you can tell from looking at the samples, some of the soles didn't make it to fruition because we had to narrow it down. Most of the time we have to edit to make sure the storytelling is cohesive and focused.

Define storytelling.

Sometimes it's just a void in the market. Sometimes it's totally situational. Like, with the Salomon Toe, it just lent itself to the way the shoe was constructed. Plus, think about how that shoe was originally constructed: we turned the faux suedes and meshes into premium leathers, which made it a heavier shoe but also took it to another place.

It's important for us to be this space that people come to when they want newness.

Sometimes that newness pops off. I still remember how people reacted to the Salmon Toes.

You can't plan for it. You know, the Salmon Toe impacted the industry, not just ASICS. People started gravitating towards these retro-tech runner silhouettes from the '90s and reconsidering what that shoe meant for the category.

It really jumpstarted my career. It gave me credibility, it made people trust my point of view on footwear because it wasn't going along with what people were anticipating at the time. It was a completely different direction.

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Want to set your brand apart from the pack with a bit of craft? Call in the octogenarians.

Just kidding, mostly. But the strategy did wonders for Burberry this season: Its Spring/Summer 2027 collection was a colorful, buoyant critical success, thanks to the inimitable talents of 85-year-old textile designer Celia Birtwell. Her signature florals (and some never-before-produced prints of emoji-like faces) appeared on dresses, shirts, and the brand’s signature outerwear. It was the brightest, most shamelessly fun show of London Fashion Week. Yes, fun! Remember her? 

Bringing in Birtwell specifically for SS27 was a genius move by the brand’s creative director, Daniel Lee. Her “flower power” prints defined 1960s London, but it’s been more recent forays into fashion that teed her up perfectly for Burberry; her four sell-out Topshop collections in the 2000s and a 2013 Uniqlo collection planted a seed for a new generation of Brits to fall for her patterns. Flash forward a decade or two, and the Burberry collaboration makes those high street fans from years ago not just recognize her, but extend their goodwill to Britain's most famous high-end brand. 

The strategy feels a touch Hermès here. The French ultra-luxury house has tapped into the power of actual artists not just in its clothes, but in its entire brand identity, down to its website design. And Lee gets that, noting in a press release that “you can really feel the human hand” in the SS27 collection. But while the connective tissue of a personal touch may bond Burberry to other craft-led brands, Birtwell is just the latest piece in a new-new Burberry pivot entirely its own; one defined by an embrace not just of the brand’s Britishness, but of the country’s deep roster of legendary creatives. 

It’s a lesson that took time to settle in. Lest we forget Burberry’s doomed “brand elevation” strategy when Lee took over in 2022, which jacked up prices to levels more aligned with Louis Vuitton and Chanel (and led profits to drop 34%). It took a recalibration of the recalibration — pulling prices back down to more earthbound levels, a fresh CEO, and all that British pride — to finally get the heritage label back on track. But back it most certainly is. 

Burberry partnered with Sir Quentin Blake this year, incorporating his “very British style” of hand-drawn illustrations into a small collection, while previous seasonal collections have tapped other beloved Brits: SS26, an ode to Glastonbury, had prints by Pamela Colman Smith, while SS25 included painter Gary Hume,  a key figure from the famed Young British Artist collective of the 1990s.

Add to that financial support for institutions like the Royal Academy of Arts and young artists like Sang Woo Kim and carpet-tufting craftsman Tom Atton Moore, and you have a new-new strategy of centering creativity. 

Burberry has an energy right now that extends well beyond the runway, by cunning design. See, this season’s standout trench coats, embroidered with Birtwell’s patterns, don’t exist in a vacuum. Just a short tube ride away from the show’s Chelsea College of Arts staging is The Burberry Trench: Crafting an Icon at V&A South Kensington, a free exhibition that elevates the brand’s signature product to high art. Long live British fashion’s checkered king. 

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Alfa Romeo’s partnership with Luna Rossa started in 2025. Their collaboration could have been as simple as slapping a logo on the team’s monochrome uniforms and calling it a day. Instead, the Italian auto manufacturer went the extra mile, cooking up cars brimming with tasteful nods to the famously stylish sailing team.

And, rather than go concept, Alfa Romeo opted to remix four more widely available cars as a testament to the partnership’s far-reaching intent. And its timing is perfect, because the Louis Vuitton 38th America’s Cup kicked off on September 24.

Each vehicle features Luna Rossa’s white, black, gray and red color palette and a designated all-red Alfa Romeo logo, and several take the sailing inspiration quite literally. The Junior and Tonale Edizione Luna Rossa sport gray exteriors inspired by the team’s flotation devices, while the Giulia and Stelvio are upholstered with ECONYL material that partially repurposes nylon from recovered fishing nets.

Inside, Luna Rossa branding is abundant and homages to nautical necessity appear by way of sail graphics that adorn the Junior’s central tunnel and dashboard.

Alfa Romeo sponsors Luna Rossa alongside other brands that straddle sport and style, including Oakley, Pirelli and, of course, the team’s main sponsor, Prada. The fashion label created the America’s Cup shoe as a performance model for the Luna Rossa team in 1997, subtly etching the yacht-racing team into sneaker and fashion history.

The carmaker is one of the team’s newer partners, though, and the Edizione Luna Rossa collection marks only the second installment of the Alfa Romeo and Luna Rossa collaboration. The first was the ultra-limited Giulia Quadrifoglio Luna Rossa, a one-off car limited to just ten units. The new series, however, will set sail in all European markets as the most shipshape iteration of each model.

Men's pants have had a tendency to go under-appreciated, despite showing up in near-infinite variations: long or cropped, denim or wool, pleats or sweats. In our weekly Shopper newsletter, we're regularly surveying the scene and reporting back on the state of the pant. Below is a list of all the most popular ones we've discussed in the past year, ranging from tried-and-true Levi's to Lemaire's trousers with a (literal) twist.

According to Shopper readers, these are 2026's best pants:

Uniqlo Barrel Pants Brown

Ignoring the substance-less chatter surrounding skinny jeans' return, no other silhouette has dominated the thoughts and legs of shoppers as much as the barrel cut. The elliptical shape it lends its wearer is the perfect marriage of what was past seasons' ultra baggy and the present's more conservative width. As correctly discerned by readers, barrel-legged is a new(-ish) classic.

Levi's 568 Loose Straight Jeans

Defying the brand's typical pecking order, it's not the 501 but the 568 Levi's that had people intrigued. The looser fit knocked mentions of its narrower counterparts off the lead spot — in a shade of stark white no less.

SSStein Black Long Wide Trousers

Ssstein's ultra wearable fashions are a secret to no one interested in good clothes. That said, it's unsurprising that one of the Japanese label's items crept into this roundup, even less so when assessing the specifics of the gorgeously pleated black slacks in question, the type of which can easily be dressed up or down.

Lemaire Twisted Belted Cotton Twill Pants

Perhaps one of the most recognizable pant designs of modern fashion, Lemaire's belted and twisted trousers are a safe-bet purchase for anyone who enjoys their bottoms to have enough personality to stand out, but not be so eccentric as to deflect from whatever else is worn alongside them.

ERL Cotton Ripstop Cargo Pants

Before our very own editor-in-chief noted so, the Shopper community foretold the rise of cargo pants by flocking to this ERL pair.

Celine Bootcut Jeans

Call it delayed aftermath to Kendrick Lamar's 2025 Superbowl outfit, call it a mass-tiring of giant-legged Y2K flares, call it a symptom of Michael Rider's wardrobe approach, but Celine's subtly bell-bottomed bootcuts might just be the foremost investment jean.

COS Linen Relaxed-Fit Barrel-Leg Pants

Evidently fed up with shorts, readers lapped up COS' lightweight, barrel-legged, cool-keeping linen pants.

Uniqlo Wide Chino Pants

If there's anything I've learned from working this close to the intersection of people and product, it's that you can throw the fanciest, frilliest stuff at folks, sometimes it's really just the simplest, most timeless of pieces that hits the nerve in ways no reinvented wheel ever could. Let the popularity of Uniqlo's chinos be the case in point.

Bottega Veneta Straight-Leg Jeans

Not even Bottega Veneta — an artisanal leather goods house! — is excluded from the above rule, as these very expensive, very straightforward, but apparently very arresting blue jeans can attest to.

Carhartt W.I.P Double Knee Pant

A lot of y'all seemed in need of double-knee'd Carhartts this year. What are they having you do at those startups and agencies I assume most of you work at?

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This drop fuels Nike’s aggressive revival of the Goadome line in 2026. As a steady stream of winterized releases piles up, the silhouette’s comeback serves as a welcome reminder of why it remains one of Nike's greatest boots ever made. 

Coated in a deep Midnight Navy tone, the upper substitutes standard smooth leather for an elevated, faux-crocodile embossed texture which wraps the entire upper, framed by heavy-duty black hardware, rope laces, and a padded leather collar. Subtle embossed Swoosh branding on the lateral ankle and heel maintains the boot's clean aesthetic.

It wouldn’t be a boot without a heavy-duty sole unit, and the Goadome has one of the best in the business. The robust black midsole houses a full-length Air Max unit which peeks through windows located at the forefoot, midfoot, and heel. 

What makes the Goadome Low so popular is that it’s one step back from a boot, closer to a sneaker. The sole unit combined with the low-top construction and an eye for detailing as evidenced by this navy croc–leather finish make it much more wearable while retaining a high level of utility.

This year has been a great one for Goadome fans who’ve had too long without any good news. With creative new iterations landing on a regular basis in the leadup to the cold seasons, it promises to be a great winter for the Goadome Low.

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