Another stellar New York Fashion Week has come and gone and there is so much to talk about! Overall, it felt like there was a looseness and ease to the clothes that walked the runway for Spring 2027. Silhouettes were relaxed and proportions often exaggerated. Some designers, including like Brandon Maxwell, Fforme’s Francis Howie, Prabal Garung, and even Ralph Lauren, took a more minimalist approach, focusing largely on silhouette and fabric with few surface embellishments. While Monse, Michael Kors, Carolina Herrera, and Thome Brown took a more maximalist approach. Even Khaite — New York’s reigning queen of slick sophistication — seemed to play a lot more this season with surface decoration and three dimensional flourishes in the form of floral embellishments and wavy-edged cuffs, hems, neck and waistlines.
There was plenty of structure as well. Menswear shirting and suit separates appeared throughout and there was a strong emphasis on stripes — both bold and pin— which were the perfect balance to the season’s inevitable glut of florals.
New York kicks off a month of fashion shows across the globe, so it will be interesting to see which of these trends has legs overseas. But whether designers in London, Milan, and Paris fall in line with what New York is putting forward or not, it was a strong season overall, full of some incredibly desirable, interesting, and quite wearable clothes.
Here’s a rundown of some of the top trends.
Metallics make an appearance every season, but this time around they look more luxurious thanks to darker tones and an assortment of textures that play with light, rather than just reflecting it.
This staid menswear suiting staple was everywhere this season, almost always in the form of fantastically draped and flowing wideleg trousers and matchin vests or jackets. Except at 7 for All Mankind, where it was tight and sexy in the kind of early 2000s way that Gen Z seems so obsessed with these days.
Satin? For day? Yes! At least that’s what designers from Altuzarra to Calvin Klein, Tory Burch, and Sandy Liang seem to be suggesting. Satin is, of course, criminally difficult to keep clean is liable to snag if you so much as look at it the wrong way, but that just makes it all the more decadent.
This season, designer Veronica Leoni showed probably her best collection yet for Calvin Klein — quite the turnaround following her almost universally maligned Fall 2026 offering back in February. The first part of the show was especially strong and felt much more in keeping with the DNA of the brand than her previous attempts, but Leoni wasn’t the only designer channeling old Calvin this season. Brandon Maxwell — who we hear actually interviewed for the design job at Calvin and was rejected in favor of Leoni — Francis Howie of Fforme, Ralph Lauren, and even Prabal Gurung, seemed to be inspired by the master of minimalism and, not that it’s a contest or anything, but, in many instances, they kind of ate her lunch. Especially Maxwell and Howie, whose collections, on the whole, looked like exactly what Calvin Klein should be, but hasn’t always been — sleek, sexy, sharp, minimalist, cool, modern, and unfussy.
My toxic trait is seeing these fabulously beefed up striped menswear shirts and thinking,”I can totally DIY that myself.” Someone probably can. I cannot.
So many designers embraced these whimsical — if slightly unwieldy — curvy, ruffly shapes on the edges of e…