Fashion Reviews

The shows ended with a clash of the centuries at Louis Vuitton, heroics at Alexander McQueen and — hot pants at Chanel?

With Yeezy Season 8, a choir of car horns, a special guest appearance by North and, oh yeah — clothes. Also Kanye-isms.

The apocalypse comes to Paris Fashion Week with floods at Balenciaga, a snowstorm at Thom Browne and darkness at Valentino. But you’ll look fine.

Who gets to be part of the gang? Who gets pushed out? Celine, Comme des Garçons and Balmain offer different answers.

Plus a special guest appearance by Joan of Arc at Paco Rabanne and the Hadid women at Off-White.

Dries Van Noten and Maison Margiela went on, wonderfully. So did Chloé. But this fashion week is getting weird.

And raises the question of what feminism means in a fashion context. (Marine Serre was just great.)

It’s been an unsettling end to the Italian season, but at Marni and Bottega Veneta, antidotes were in the offing.

And fringe! Forget the power shoulder. Welcome to the age of the power frill and even the power pannier. At Prada and Moschino, the clichés of femininity are being weaponized.

Moncler has orchestrated a happening at Milan Fashion Week. It’s quite a scene.

It’s a “ritual” said Alessandro Michele. And he’s not giving it up any time soon. Plus communion at Jil Sander and ’80s revivalism at Alberta Ferretti.

Or at least the end of the European experiment? At London Fashion Week, Burberry, JW Anderson and Simone Rocha offer some ideas.

Fashion week ended with a designer who thinks big. Finally.

It’s not just about the yarn. Ideas from Gabriela Hearst, Coach and Rodarte.

These days, down is up and left is right. Proenza Schouler gets it. Oscar de la Renta and Carolina Herrera not so much.

Rachel Comey and Vaquera get New York Fashion Week off to a buzzy start.

The designer’s show during New York Fashion Week took place in Los Angeles. Jennifer Lopez, Lil Nas X and Tracee Ellis Ross all made the velvet-banquette scene.

Diminished in scope but not ambition, the men’s shows prove that even the malling of Manhattan can’t dampen designers’ spirit.

At the Super Bowl, she proved “dress your age” has no meaning any more.

At Valentino, Pierpaolo Piccioli plays with expectations.

After 50 years, the designer held his last show, and it was a doozy.

The designer Bouchra Jarrar is back with a new line and a new fashion philosophy.

From the goddess to the governess at Dior and Chanel, and beyond at Iris Van Herpen. At the couture shows this week in Paris, fashion designers begin to address reality.

Alessandro Michele’s cruise 2020 collection focused on women’s rights, by flashlight.

The Paris collections came to a close with Louis Vuitton, Miu Miu and one eye-bending moment.

There are new designers who are more than just a flavor of the month.

Nature takes center stage at Dries Van Noten and Chloé, amid another fashion furor.

Is freedom the ability to replace the power suit with a onesie? Plus other questions of gender and identity at Margiela.

Bruno Sialelli’s debut show for Lanvin had a lot going on — tartan, knits, embroidered foxes (foxes?). But no clear point of view.

Ferragamo and Missoni paid homage to family values. Armani played a rhapsody in blue. Versace celebrated grunge. And then there was Marni.

Prada and Moschino wrestle with reality in unexpected ways; Tod’s goes all-in for leather.

The verdict is in on Daniel Lee’s first runway collection.

Proenza Schouler invents a garment, Helmut Lang returns (again) and the search for newness goes on.

Valentino, Viktor & Rolf and Balmain take to their soapboxes, with varying success.

The red carpet may never be the same, although Giorgio Armani is standing firm.

Acrobats at Dior, springtime marvels at Chanel and fantastic creatures at Iris van Herpen; the circus comes to Paris, and to us all.

The men’s show season winds down with Thom Browne, deconstructed; Dior Men on a moving walkway; and Comme des Garçons finding beauty in the dark.

There was a rhinestone-glove invitation and a “Billie Jean” set. And Virgil Abloh said the star inspired the layered gray suits and skirt-trousers.

The designer’s fall men’s collection acknowledges the ’70s visionary Larry LeGaspi.

Demna Gvasalia’s brand has changed fashion. But for fall, it seems to be stuck in T-shirt and hoodie mode.

For fall, Clare Waight Keller sent out nipped waists, bell bottoms, boots — and a sequined dinner jacket.

Multi-ethnic models, sporty footwear and gender-fluid styles stood out on the fall show runways.

Behind and ahead of the scenes at Pyer Moss, Brandon Maxwell, Eckhaus Latta, Christian Siriano and R13

Hillary Clinton, Oprah Winfrey and a star-studded crowd came to celebrate the designer’s 50-year career.

Statement-making at Versace and Missoni and preparing for battle at Bottega Veneta.

Velvet ribbons united the designer’s latest collection, from the neck on down.

The New York ready-to-wear shows kick off with the most-anticipated debut of the week.

Kim Kardashian West was robbed following the Givenchy show at Paris Fashion Week, but the shows must go on, though the mood was muted — and so were the iPhones.

One suits up in spandex, while the other offers an emotional workout.

Simon Porte Jacquemus drew on his youth as inspiration, while at Courrèges, Sébastien Meyer and Arnaud Vaillant showed their first full collection.

The designer offered an elegant, lyrical collection in (mostly) black and white, while, at Maison Margiela, John Galliano went for a colorful collage.

The Milan shows drew to a close with a certain consensus about what styles and silhouettes will dominate the season.

Wardrobe prescriptions from Jeremy Scott, Miuccia Prada and “Charmani” take on the ills of today.

In Milan, the emphasis is on the clothes but also on the hands that made them, and the time it took.

Collections by Jonathan Anderson, Simone Rocha, Christopher Kane and others reflected the uncertainty about how Britain, and its designers, now move forward.

It may have been the brand’s first shop-now collection for both men and women, but the designer Christopher Bailey didn’t just go for the quick sale.

With her spring collection, the designer tries on sex appeal.

An unexpected performance and political statement by Rufus Wainwright cast the collection in a whole new light.

The fashion week cast included Brandon Maxwell and Vera Wang.

The new DKNY collection by Dao-Yi Chow and Maxwell Osborne made a striking visual picture, though you’re not likely to wear it to the office.

In a combination beauty pageant, pep rally and consciousness raising, the label served up the most political statement of New York Fashion Week.

Recreating the salon shows of the 1950s prompted the designer’s best work in seasons.

A look back at the men’s wear trends that emerged on the runways of the fashion capitals.

The label’s spring 2017 men’s collection.

The brand’s 90th anniversary couture show was held on the waters of the Trevi Fountain, and replete with myths and legends.

Valentino’s longtime designer duo of Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli is no more. A day after unveiling their new couture collection, Ms. Chiuri on Wednesday announced her departure.

The men’s wear shows return to Manhattan, this time without the local favorites Duckie Brown and Public School.

From Elizabethan ruffs to velvet trains, an undercurrent of historicism has run through the couture collections against the backdrop of unrest on Paris’s streets.

The heritage brand’s new creative director has repositioned it squarely in the era of Blaxploitation flicks with a black hat/white hat scheme.

Opening the season by opening up fashion’s most elite art to a host of new influences and actors.

A stormy mood hits the men’s wear shows put on by Acne Studios, Lanvin and Sacai.

The Vuitton collection by Kim Jones included animal patterns and designs while Hood by Air took fashion to a Parisian bathhouse.

So far, several of the Paris men’s shows have had a distinctly militaristic look.

Some critics have been grumbling but retailers, focusing on standouts like Gucci, look at the sunny side of sales.

Luxury travel — and the pricey clothes to accompany it — has been a leitmotif throughout the Milan men’s wear season.

They’re the spring men’s collections — but with leather coats at Jil Sander and autumnal colors from Neil Barrett.

Miu Miu, Iris van Herpen and Moncler Gamme Rouge complete the fall 2016 women’s shows.

The shows offered a contrast: one evoked the now omnipresent ’80s in a way that felt like a re-creation; the other used the past to point in a new direction.

A travelogue of global influences at Akris, Sacai and Giambattista Valli.

Among the weekend’s moments: mathematical magic at Junya Watanabe.

Among the collections, Jonathan Anderson finds a new voice for Loewe.

Olivier Rousteing name-checks supermodels at Balmain, while Chloé celebrates independence and Paco Rabanne fires up.

Multiple choice at the opening of the season’s final women’s wear shows.

In front of a newly jam-packed audience, Mr. Vaccarello explored the world of sex and the Smoking.