The best, the most and the weirdest from New York Fashion Week

A model walks the runway for COACH Spring/Summer 2026 during New York Fashion Week on Sept 15, 2025. (Image: Getty)

Sun, 21 Sep 2025

By Shane O’Neill, Ashley Fetters Maloy, Maura JudkisNEW YORK - Fashion Week can feel like high school. There are social hierarchies, indicated by whom you sit with. There are parties you will never get invited to. There are popular kids, goths and old-timers swinging by campus hoping to relive their glory days. There is gossip, inside jokes and unspoken rules.With this in mind, we took a page from our yearbooks and wrote a list of this season’s New York Fashion Week superlatives, culled from our collective observations over the...

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