Vogue Runway’s Most-Learn Tales of 2022

Right here at Vogue Runway, we’re aligned on the massive tales of the yr. The queering of trend (and we don’t simply imply the proliferation of seen jockstraps), the affect of TikTok in nearly each nook of the enterprise—Howdy, Barbiecore!—and the rising cracks within the artistic director system have been all matters of curiosity right here at One World Commerce.
Vogue Runway’s readers had different concepts in 2022. You have been curious in regards to the new wave of Ukrainian designers making a go of their younger companies in a rustic at struggle. You stored sending Sergio Hudson’s popping out story to the highest of our site visitors dashboard months after we printed it. And also you clicked on something Rihanna-related, however particularly our publish about her first-ever IRL Savage x Fenty retailer. What I take away from our most-read listing is that it’s folks and private tales that matter to you, not macro trade developments.
You do, nevertheless, make exceptions for micro developments. Our #1 most-read story of the yr was our senior trend information editor Laia Garcia-Furtado’s celebration of what she calls the “non-shoe shoe.” The non-shoe she, for these of you who missed it, is a fragile piece of footwear, extra slipper-like than sturdy, and, let’s be sincere, not horny within the slightest, and that’s puzzling, given the recognition of see-through going-out clothes à la Nensi Dojaka, who took the highest spot in our the most-viewed reveals listing of spring 2023.
Laia has a take, after all: “They’re perhaps the closest we’ve gotten to that midcentury imaginative and prescient of the long run the place everyone seems to be sporting catsuits and form-fitting garments engineered for higher dwelling. I dream of a closet filled with little voids to place my ft into, to match the each day feeling of eager to scream into one.” Learn on to see the total listing.
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