A.P.C. Names Ludivine Poiblanc as Artistic Director
A.P.C. has appointed Ludivine Poiblanc as artistic director, stepping into a role that Jean Touitou held for nearly 30 years before stepping down in July 2024. Poiblanc is a stylist and creative director whose editorial work spans WSJ Magazine, Vogue, and Harper’s Bazaar, and whose commercial clients include Zara, Lanvin, and Calvin Klein. She will be responsible for shaping the brand’s image, and will present her debut collection at the Milan showroom on May 20, followed by the A.P.C. headquarters on Rue Madame in Paris on June 15. The appointment comes at a significant moment for the house: L Catterton took a majority stake in 2023, Stephanie Phair joined as president in October 2025, and reports surfaced over the winter of cash flow difficulties and a planned restructuring. “I’ve always been drawn to its radical simplicity, an archetypal wardrobe shaped by a quiet sense of dissidence and a distinctly French attitude,” Poiblanc said. [Vogue]
Chanel’s Next Métiers d’Art Show Will Be in Rome
Matthieu Blazy will present his Métiers d’Art 2027 collection in Rome on December 2 for Chanel. The exact location has not yet been announced. The news was accompanied by an archival photograph of Gabrielle Chanel with filmmaker Luchino Visconti, a nod to her longstanding relationship with Italy, which began in the summer of 1920 and informed her love of Renaissance painting, antique art, and Italian cinema. “Tackling Rome is always a challenge, because it represents a pinnacle,” said Bruno Pavlovsky, president of fashion at Chanel. The late Karl Lagerfeld last brought the Métiers d’Art show to Rome in 2015, presenting at Cinecittà. Blazy’s first Métiers d’Art show took place in a New York City subway station. [WWD]
Models.com Launches Its Editions Store
Models.com Editions is now live, our new store for limited releases and exclusive merch. The tagline says it best: wear the conversation. Edition 001 launches with a hoodie and a cap. Get 10% off your first order by shopping here.
Louis Vuitton Names Alysa Liu as Brand Ambassador
Louis Vuitton has tapped figure skater Alysa Liu as a brand ambassador. The 20-year-old California native made history at the 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Olympics by becoming the first American woman to win an individual gold medal in figure skating since Sarah Hughes in 2002, also taking home gold in the team event. Known for her halo hair with blond and brunette stripes and her self-designed skating costumes, Liu wore the brand to the Met Gala and attended the fall 2026 show during Paris Fashion Week. She joins an athlete roster that includes Carlos Alcaraz, Victor Wembanyama, and Yuto Horigome. [WWD]
Black Hair Reimagined Returns to New York
The second edition of Black Hair Reimagined: The New Era of Beauty returned to New York City last night during Met Gala weekend, bringing together a cross-section of the industry’s leading voices shaping the future of hair. Hairstylists Jawara, Malcolm Marquez, Fesa Nu, Vernon François,Issac Poleon, and Joshua Meekins were joined by beauty leaders Raisa Flowers, Jamal Scott, and Dawn Sterling, alongside stylists Solange Franklin, Ronald Burton III, Jan-Michael Quammie, Matthew Henson, Edward Bowleg III, and Yohana Lebasi. Models including Yasmin Warsame, Tami Williams, and Amilna Estevao took to the floor to reveal striking, transformative hair moments. We went backstage with photographer Bre Johnson for a behind-the-scenes look at the looks before the show went live. See the full images here.
The Met’s Costume Art Puts the Body First
Ahead of the Met Gala, we took a closer look at Costume Art, the Costume Institute’s spring exhibition that opened this week in the newly inaugurated Condé M. Nast Galleries. Curated by Andrew Bolton, Curator in Charge of the Costume Institute, the show pairs nearly 200 garments with artworks drawn from across the Met’s collection, organised around a series of thematic body types: the naked body, the anatomical body, the pregnant body, the corpulent body, the disabled body, and the aging body. Twenty-five new mannequins, each modelled from individual body scans and sculpted with mirrored heads by artist Samar Hejazi to shift attention from identity toward the body itself, were commissioned specifically for the exhibition. See more here.
Fashion Is Art, and the 2026 Met Gala Made Its Case
New York and fashion’s most anticipated evening of the year, the Met Gala, unfolded on the first Monday in May. From Anok Yai’s Our Lady of Tears look to Emma Chamberlain’s custom hand-painted Mugler gown and Beyoncé’s long-awaited return, we covered our favourite looks from this week’s Met Gala red carpet here.
Hailun Ma Is Reframing Central Asia Through Photography
“I didn’t discover photography in a dramatic way. It felt more like something that came naturally to me, almost instinctively,” says photographer Hailun Ma, based between China and New York City. Describing her work as intimate, instinctive, and rooted in personal memory, she moves between documentary and constructed imagery, photographing Rihanna for Vogue and shooting covers for T Magazine China among others. Check out the full interview here.
These Fresh Faces Talk Curling Clubs, Castings, and Coney Island
Learn how these four faces got their start in the industry, the scariest things they have done, and the essential parts of their daily routine. Find the full interviews with these model rookies here.
