New York Fashion Week
Brandon Maxwell, Ralph Lauren kick off New York Fashion Week 2025 in style
Sept. 10, 2025Updated Sept. 12, 2025, 3:07 p.m. ET
New York Fashion Week has returned! Some of the biggest brands in fashion are bringing their spring/summer 2026 looks to the Big Apple beginning on Thursday, Sept. 11, and continuing until Tuesday, Sept. 16. Ahead of the official first day, Brandon Maxwell got things started in style with a 10th anniversary show at Sotheby’s New York on Sept. 9. The collection emphasized plaid and fringe, featuring thick belts with eye-catching buckles and models using newspapers as accessories.
Scroll through for a look at the best photos from the start of New York Fashion Week, starting with a model walking the runway for Brandon Maxwell.
Monica Feudi/Courtesy Of Brandon MaxwellScroll through for a look at the best photos from the start of New York Fashion Week, starting with a model walking the runway for Brandon Maxwell.
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Dylan O'Brien in Rachel Antonoff & Susan Alexandra presents Best in Show at New York Fashion Week in New York City.
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Lafayette 148's spring/summer 2026 New York Fashion Week presentation shown Sept. 11, 2025. The art installation evokes "the numerous archetypal New Yorker women," according to the designer.
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Julez Smith walks the runway for J. Press' show at New York Fashion Week, Sept. 11 2025. Jack Carlson's debut collection is "a colorful, luxurious celebration of Ivy style at its best," according to the designer.
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Bernie Martínez Ocasio walks the runway for J. Press
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Derek Lam 10 Crosby presented its Spring/Summer 2026 collection, "a contemplation on the intersection of personal and interior style," at New York Fashion Week.
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Johnson Hartig presented Libertine’s spring/summer 2026 collection during New York Fashion Week on Sept. 10, 2025, in New York City.
The collection drew inspiration from the poetic surrealism of René Magritte and from 19th-century North African Zoave soldiers, according to the designer.
Madison Voelkel/BFA.comThe collection drew inspiration from the poetic surrealism of René Magritte and from 19th-century North African Zoave soldiers, according to the designer.
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Ben Doctor's latest designs took the runway at a Chinatown art studio while reimagining "the romance of midcentury air travel," the designer said in a release.
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Contessa Mills debuted "The Lovers," her largest collection yet, on Thursday, Sept. 11, 2025.
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Fang NYC made their NYFW debut with their "unisex" and "femme-forward" spring/summer 2026 collection on Sept. 10, 2025.
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