Lakeith Stanfield, Anya Taylor Joy, and Josh O'Connor at the Toronto International Film Festival. Source: Getty

Dior's Red Carpet Blitz Continues

How much is too much? Dior continued its red carpet blitz in Toronto this week, this time spotlighting just off-the-runway looks from designer Jonathan Anderson's debut men's collection shown in Paris in June.

At the Roofman premiere, Lakeith Stanfield brought swagger to a  white sweater, denim blue bowtie and khakis with protruding pleats, which he topped with a black leather beret. Meanwhile, at the Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery premiere, Josh O'Connor played the dandy in Anderson's reworked hourglass-shape Bar jacket for men, with a black-and-white check sweater and a white bow tie in the same throwback cravat style. The looks were a more casual take on the red carpet, but that seems to be a trend at TIFF.

One exception was longtime Dior face Anya-Taylor Joy in an ice-blue Dior silk dress that was a custom design. Like Greta Lee's killer Dior dress from Venice, this one really hinted at the  direction Anderson could be taking the women's ready-to-wear, and indeed, couture.

I loved the volume in the skirt, and the thicket of satin ribbons--classic but modern. In other Dior news, the first women's ambassador of the J.A. era has been named, and it's Anora best actress Oscar winner Mikey Madison. Anderson's debut women's ready-to-wear Dior show is Oct. 1. No telling how many more red carpet credits he'll have by then, but the anticipation is building.

Elsewhere at the festival, I was intrigued by the Gabriela Hearst chocolate silk double breasted trench coat Angelina Jolie wore to the premiere of her film, Couture. Following on the heels of Ashley Olsen wearing a trench by The Row as a dress to the YES Scholars 25th Anniversary Gala in L.A. recently (see photo below), coat dresses are really starting to look cool.

Angelina Jolie attends the premiere of Couture during the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival. Source: Getty

Wonderfully Wacky VMAs Fashion

At the VMA Awards, in the midst of the wonderfully wacky and weird red carpet, the night's most memorable look came courtesy of FKA Twigs who chose a blood red bandeau-meets-bolero jacket with corset lacing in back, and heavily distressed flared pants from Matières Fécales.

Yes, that does translate to fecal matter in English, and it's one of the hottest new fashion labels in Paris, with designers Hannah Rose Dalton and Steven Raj Bhaskaran already earning comparisons to Alexander McQueen and Rick Owens. The headphones may also have been the best accessory of the night.

FKA twigs attends the 2025 MTV Video Music Awards at UBS Arena on September 07, 2025 in Elmont, New York. Source: Getty Images

Chanel supports the film Couture by Alex Winocour

Chanel Gets Screen Time In Couture 

The fashion-film crossover continues in Toronto. Jolie's film Couture, which shines a light on three women working in the shadows of the fashion industry--an independent filmmaker, a makeup artist and a fresh face in modeling from South Sudan--is getting a boost from Chanel.

The film is set during Paris Fashion Week, and Chanel granted director Alice Winocour access to its haute couture salons and workrooms to shoot several scenes. Chanel also collaborated with costume designer Pascaline Chavanne to reimagine looks inspired by collections from the house, which appear in the final fashion show.

Also at TIFF, Gucci announced its involvement with the Romain Gavras film Sacrifice, which is about a confrontation between celebrities and eco-terrorists at an environmental fundraiser. (Sounds delicious, and like a more natural star vehicle for sustainable fashion advocate Jolie, but anyway.)

Gucci created select costumes for the characters played by Chris Evans, Vincent Cassel and Salma Hayek Pinault, as well as sponsoring the premiere after-party.

These partnerships follow news from Venice that Tiffany & Co. supplied jewelry for Frankenstein, and Saint Laurent Productions' Father Mother Sister Brother took the Gold Lion. 

Lisa Eisner, Ashley Olsen and Louis Eisner attend the 25th Anniversary YES Scholars Gala at Private Club on September 04, 2025 in Bel Air, California. Source: Robin L Marshall/Getty Images

Lisa Eisner x The Row Is All In the Family 

Lisa Eisner, one of L.A.'s most stylish women, whose work spans fashion, photography and now statement jewelry, has launched a striking new Silver Foil collection with The Row -- and it's all in the family.

The Row co-founder Ashley Olsen is married to the designer's artist son Louis Eisner (the three are pictured above at the 25th Yes Scholars Gala in L.A. earlier this month).

"The Row is a dream...And I guess I'm a nepo mother-in-law," joked Eisner, who launched her namesake line in 2014, informed by the American West and raw stones, debuting it on the spring 2015 Tom Ford runway,

The Silver Foil collection is gorgeously sculptural and textured, in keeping with the rest of her handmade work. "I wanted it to be like silver nuggets, because I've done gold nuggets. And it's a little inspired by John Chamberlain's sculptures.," she said of the collection, $650 to $8,950, which includes a powerful collar, double link bracelet, wave cuff, six-drop earrings and more. (She's wearing the pieces in the photo above). 

Lisa Eisner x The Row Silver Foil collection earrings

Silver is having a serious fashion moment. (Ralph Lauren showed silver jewelry on his spring 2026 runway Wednesday in New York.) Perhaps it's because of the soaring price of gold, or maybe it looks modern again thanks to contemporary jewelry designers like Juju Vera, Sophie Buhai, Uncommon Matters and Eisner, whose work has been worn by Ayo Edebiri, Tracee Ellis Ross--and Maya Rudolph earlier this week at the One Battle After Another premiere in L.A.. 

The Lisa Eisner x The Row Silver Foil collection is available on the designer's website and at The Row stores.

Proenza Schouler Spring 2026

An Exciting NYFW Debut 

The September-to-October fashion month run of new designers debuting at brands kicked off in New York Wednesday with Rachel Scott at Proenza Schouler.

The Jamaican-American talent, who won the Council of Fashion Designers of America's Womenswear Designer of the Year award in 2024 for her brand Diotima, joined Proenza Schouler a few months back, following the announcement that the brand's founders Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez would be heading to Loewe, where they will show their first collection in Paris Oct. 3.

The Spring 2026 Proenza Schouler collection was a prelude to the new chapter designed as a collaboration between the studio team and Scott.

She built her own brand as a sultry haven for women with sexy knits, tailoring and denim with artisanal crochet and lace doilies inspired by domestic work. And you could see that spirit and hand on some of the Proenza pieces, including lovely reverse jacquard tailoring in black or ivory, with threads drawn outward for a touch of lived-in luxe.

Stylists and stars should make room in their awards season wardrobes to support Scott, one of too few rising female designers in fashion.

Frank Romero, Saucers Seen Over Hollywood. Source: Luis De Jesus Los Angeles

Frank Romero Returns With Timely New Paintings 

Back in L.A., a Chicano art movement pioneer returns to the gallery scene Sept. 13 with Frank Romero: California Dreaming, a solo exhibition of new paintings and seminal works from the artist's six-decade career, including neon nightscapes dotted with symbols of the city's golden age of cinema.

His new work introduces flying saucers as a nostalgic throwback to the 1950s and a cheeky reference to sombreros.

“When I was growing up, the UFO wasn't just related to science fiction, it was symbolic of a primordial fear of something coming. I thought it was rather silly. And these paintings are tongue-in-cheek, they're supposed to be jokes. They are jokes. But really, though, the government has labeled the Mexican American this and others like us similarly before," Romero said.

The exhibition will run Sept. 13–Oct. 25 at Luis de Jesus Los Angeles gallery, with an opening reception Sept. 13.

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