Calvin Klein Collection S/S 2026 New York

[Avonlea]

It's baffling to me how the NY designers have access to the some of the best museums, archives, galleries and yet keep showing the same tired bland sh*t. Do these people have no interests? They don't watch films, read books?

 

[Alquimista]

Somebody should tell her that CK stands for pragmatic dressing (from underwear to suiting), not failed textile art project.

 

[aa2005]

It's baffling to me how the NY designers have access to the some of the best museums, archives, galleries and yet keep showing the same tired bland sh*t. Do these people have no interests? They don't watch films, read books?

I meant to reply to this earlier but you would be shocked or maybe not how many people in the NYC fashion sphere honestly just do not have interests beyond caring about a social status above all. Any depth is usually surface level and sadly missing a resume of understanding and appreciation for things that inspire growth.

 

[RobAllen4599]

Bring back Costa. Quick!

 

[Xone]

Veronica, hear the man please..

 

[Kennnnn]

Veronica, hear the man please..

This collection I think was spring 1997, not one of his best - it was frankly very derivative of Helmut Lang.

 

[0729866]

I miss Francisco Costa. Hated his casts but he really knew how to play with form and material.

 

[PDFSD]

This collection I think was spring 1997, not one of his best - it was frankly very derivative of Helmut Lang.

i take his worst over any version of calvin now
and still its his house (even if sold) so whatever he did thats the house and his words stand as a house of steel.

period !

 

[Frederic01]

CALVIN KLEIN

 

[Norden]

its even more sad and drab in movement.

 

[oioioi]

Heavy handed and feels like designing for yourself.
No one asked for the jockstrap, underwear sunglasses.

 

[GERGIN]

Francisco Costa was the last good designer for the womenswear collections, he absolutely understood the importance of tailoring and structure and when he was experimenting with shapes and textures it always felt grounded yet very interesting.

Veronica has what it takes and I can see that but she lacks a mood or that crisp, American sportswear identity that Calvin Klein himself achieved successfully throughout his career. Too many ideas being thrown in to this one collection and desperately hoping to make something work, it’s so pathetic…

On another note, has anyone tried Francisco Costa’s skincare line Costa Brazil?! SIMPLY DIVINE! The best face and body oils and also an amazing coffee exfoliating body scrub!!!

 

[Phuel]

It's baffling to me how the NY designers have access to the some of the best museums, archives, galleries and yet keep showing the same tired bland sh*t. Do these people have no interests? They don't watch films, read books?

Not exclusive to New Yorkers unfortunately: Being surrounded by so much history, so much culture, and so much access to the world at your fingertips— but still only obsessed and even more tragically, relying on social from the last 15min for inspiration/education/information, is a disease inflicted upon the West. The times when I’ve simply showed 19yo models some shots by Herb Ritts/Bruce Weber/Peter Lindbergh, and see their faces light up because that sort of gormless, limp posing and flash photography is all that they’ve known when access to the Greats are just a google away on their phones, is at once encouraging and tragic.

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If I’m in a supportive mood, there’s a handful of really solid designs: The fringed separates are pure editorial bait for a fashion-in-motion story; the grand robe coats are this stuff of classic luxe but maybe only appropriate for an Alaskan/Icelandic cruise in the summertime; and that stiff, satin-pink CK Jeans look is classic American sportswear. It’s unfortunate that she doesn’t seem to possess the attention-span nor the capability to develop those designs into a collection worthy of Calvin Klein’s so fresh so clean sensibility.

Even the Raf-era cowboy boots and pompoms are decent accents. Instead, she seems so insecure, or so directionless— likely both, and throws in the silly super-oversized nonsense that was all the rage for Demna’s Balenciaga several years ago; the random adult-diaper look; the crinkled Japanese silhouette; the Pieter’s Alaia geometric shapes— cuz if that silly condom top is getting so much editorial and cover attention, then she wants some with her version of clownwear. It’s just all so needlessly over the place when it could very well be so effortlessly directional. And the inclusion of useless boys in pyjamas and a cast that looks so dour, doesn’t help, when Calvin Klein’s signature casting was always a simple sensuality. It all gives the depressing vibe of a picked over outlet heap that neither the discriminating mature Calvin Klein customer nor gen z/alpha would be interested in. Guess the underwear will keep this on life support for another collection or two before they come to their senses and put her out of her misery.