Summing Up the Collections in a Word

Designers, like all artists, find inspiration in the darndest places. We can spend hours listening to them wax poetically about the color of a butterfly’s wing. Instead, we’re allowing them to provide just one word to sum up their collections. (Or, in some instances, two words; directions are hard to follow.) Read, digest, and be inspired.

• Wall Street
• Alexander Wang
• Vibration
• Francisco Costa, Calvin Klein
• Structure
• Yigal Azrouël
• Dimension
• Vera Wang
• Multi-textural
• Jason Wu
• Poetess
• Erin Fetherston
• Dreams
• Kate and Laura Mulleavy, Rodarte
• Complexity
• Alexandre Herchcovitch
• Softcore
• Thakoon Panichgul
• Parisienne
• Christian Siriano
• Spectralbuliciousness
• Thom Browne
• ‘Beetlejuice’
• Eddie Borgo
• Alabaster
• Erin Wasson
• Playful Prep
• Tommy Hilfiger
• New America
• Marcella & Johan Lindeberg, William Rast
• Painting
• Tory Burch
• Ease
• Michael Kors
• Chiseled
• Daniel Vosovic
• Cut
• Phillip Lim
• Feminine
• Korto Momolu
• Handcrafted
• Anna Sui
• Zodiac
• Vivienne Tam
• Scales
• Behnaz Sarafpour
• Justify
• Justin Thornton & Thea Bregazzi, Preen
• Spectral
• Mara Hoffman
• Horse
• Jenni Kayne
• Elemental
• Donna Karan
• Contradiction
• Maria Cornejo, Zero + Maria Cornejo
• Dirty
• Carly Cushnie and Michelle Ochs, Cushnie et Ochs
• Statuesque
• Dennis Basso
• Circular
• Narciso Rodriguez
• Constructivism
• Carlos Miele
• Psychedelic
• Peter Som
• Energetic
• Swaim and Christina Hutson, Generra
• Framing
• Marios Schwab, Halston
• Speed
• Prabal Gurung
• Rigorous
• Italo Zucchelli, Calvin Klein Menswear
• Big Bang
• Brian Wolk and Claude Morais, Ruffian
• Après-ski
• Victor Glemaud
• Swagger
• Miho Aoki and Thuy Pham, United Bamboo
• Cræft
• Tia Cibani, Ports 1961
• The Newtons
• Camilla Staerk
• Cosmic
• Brian Reyes
• Quixotic
• Elie Tahari
• Tassel
• Cynthia Rowley
• Hairy Metal
• Custo Dalmau, Custo Barcelona
• Barbarian-Barbarella
• Frank Tell
• Arial
• Tadashi Shoji
• Sculptured
• Raul Melgoza, Luca Luca
• Collage
• Rachel Roy
• Fractional
• Victoria Bartlett, VPL
• FFFAAAAASSSHHHIIOOONNN!!!!
• Jeremy Scott
• Uncertainty 
• David Elfin
• Dance!
• Lyn Devon
• Clarity
• Matthew Ames
• Schwarzwaldverein
• Gar—de
• Relax
• Koi Suwannagate
• Transient
• Gary Graham
• Self-preservation
• Jen Kao
• Bellissima
• Pamella Roland

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