12 up-and-coming designers to know about fashion month

As another fashion month draws to a close, a whole new group of up-and-coming designers have emerged as the shining stars of the show. While New York Fashion Week tends to prioritize new labels over traditional names, with usual suspects like Tom Ford and Marc Jacobs taking the season or showing off the calendar, other cities like London and Paris are also adding their fair share of new labels to the official schedule. Here, some of our favorites from the fall 2023 season.

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Jackson Wiederhoeft launched the eponymous brand Wiederhoeft in 2019, after finding inspiration in all things dance and theatre. The designer is a Parsons School of Design alumnus who also worked under Thom Browne for three years. Each collection is a masterpiece of form and fantasy, with figures parading in precise corseted dresses, trompe-l'oeil lingerie prints, denim hooded dresses and puffy tulle skirts - this season , influenced by a story from Orpheus. "A lot of my work is about recontextualizing archetypal imagery...taking a lot of ancient Greek and Catholic imagery and sort of recontextualizing [and] decontextualizing in a post-future, post-gender space," he said. he declared to ELLE. com.

DONALD STAHL

BruceGlen was arguably NYFW's most colorful runway, and it was completely intentional - just ask the identical twin designers Bruce and Glen Proctor. "We've always been drawn to color and shine, but haven't always felt entitled to wear it," they say. “We decided to embrace what naturally moved us: color. We are beginning to recognize the power of color, its ability to change an atmosphere and mood. It's important to us that BruceGlen sparks joy. There are so many sad things happening in the world. We want our contribution to be joy, through all the gifts we have. The brand started with handbags and relaunched in 2019 to include a rainbow of jerseys, eyelet dresses and velvet tops. As a finishing touch for the Fall/Winter 2023 show, the five-time Grammy-winning gospel artist