INTO Archive Editorials

New York Fashion Week has always been about more than the runway. It's the parties, the showrooms, the unexpected discoveries, and the people who make the city feel like fashion's center of gravity. This September, Into Archive brought that energy into one of New York's most exclusive settings.

On September 16 and 17, Into Archive joined forces with Hedy Japan for a two-day pop-up at the Presidential Suite of Casa Cipriani. Bringing together archival fashion, collectible accessories, and the atmosphere of a private residence, the event offered a different way to experience fashion during NYFW.

For two days, the suite became a space for discovery, conversation, and the kind of pieces that deserve a closer look.

From emerging designers and Saint Laurent speculation to archival fashion, resale education, and the shifting rules of cultural access, here’s what’s shaping the fashion conversation right now.

Fashion moves through cycles, but the way we discover, collect, and engage with it is constantly changing. As New York Fashion Week brings together established houses, emerging designers, and the industry’s cultural tastemakers, conversations around fashion's past and future are unfolding beyond the runway. From Julie Kegels’ recognition on the global stage to renewed interest in Saint Laurent archives, the latest developments point toward a fashion landscape where design, provenance, and access remain closely connected.

This week, we're looking at the designers redefining modern tailoring, the houses protecting their identities through anonymity, and the platforms teaching a new generation how to understand luxury beyond the storefront.

Maura Higgins brought a little archival fashion to the 2026 US Open, stepping out in vintage Chanel and a rare Chanel Cruise 2023 tennis-inspired bag rented from Into Archive.

If there was ever a moment for a tennis racket-shaped Chanel bag, it was the US Open. On August 31, Maura Higgins arrived at the 2026 tournament in New York wearing a vintage Chanel look that leaned fully into the sport’s fashion language, complete with a tiny Chanel bag featuring a tennis racket-shaped front pocket. The result was less courtside spectator and more fashion girl who happened to have tickets.

Twenty years after Tom Ford left Gucci, the Horsebit bags he made famous are still going viral. So, did his Gucci ever really die?

Who killed Tom Ford Gucci? It is a question that feels increasingly difficult to answer. Tom Ford left Gucci in 2004, but the fashion house's most provocative era continues to resurface through the archive. Every few years, the same silhouettes return to runways, vintage markets and celebrity wardrobes, reminding us why Tom Ford's Gucci remains one of the most influential chapters in modern fashion history.

At Into Archive, we have seen the obsession firsthand. Tom Ford-era Gucci bags have repeatedly gone viral across social media, particularly the highly recognizable Horsebit styles that defined the house's early-2000s aesthetic. Now, two more rare examples have arrived: a Gucci by Tom Ford 2000s Black Lizard Leather GG Rhinestone Horsebit Bag and a Gucci by Tom Ford 2004 Limited Edition Crystal Serpent Head Horsebit Bag. Both capture the excess, glamour and unmistakable attitude that made vintage Gucci by Tom Ford so collectible today.

Fashion is always looking backward while insisting it’s moving forward. This season, that tension feels especially obvious. From the return of Y2K technology to the renewed obsession with archival silhouettes, fashion’s biggest conversations are being shaped by the people, images, and ideas that have already left a mark.

At Into Archive, that’s exactly where we like to look: at the moments that become references, the designers who become mythology, and the pieces that continue to feel relevant decades after they first appeared.

The Met Gala Fallout

Kim Kardashian has never been one to shy away from a statement accessory. For her latest look, it was a pair of vintage Chanel sunglasses that brought the finishing touch—and a little bit of fashion history—with them.

Styled by Soki Mak, a longtime Into Archive collaborator, Kardashian was spotted wearing the archival Chanel sunglasses sourced from our collection. The pair is a reminder of exactly why vintage accessories continue to hold such a strong place in contemporary wardrobes: the right piece from the right era can make even the most current look feel instantly more distinctive.

There is something particularly compelling about Chanel sunglasses from the archive. Unlike a seasonal accessory designed to exist within a single collection, vintage Chanel pieces carry the visual language of the house across different eras. Bold proportions, unmistakable branding, and the kind of instantly recognizable design that photographs just as well today as it did when the pieces first debuted.

For a moment, it seemed like John Galliano was finally going to get the museum retrospective fashion had been building toward for years. In July, the Metropolitan Museum of Art announced John Galliano: Horizons, a sweeping exhibition dedicated to the British designer’s four-decade career, from his Central Saint Martins graduate collection to Givenchy, Dior, and his transformative years at Maison Margiela. It was meant to open alongside the 2027 Met Gala, putting one of fashion’s most influential—and controversial—designers at the center of the industry’s biggest night.

A month later, it was gone.

On August 31, Galliano and the Met announced that the exhibition would no longer proceed as planned, following mounting criticism over Galliano’s antisemitic and racist remarks in 2011. The Met Gala itself has not been cancelled, but its planned Galliano-centered exhibition has been pulled, with the museum saying that details of a new spring exhibition and the 2027 Gala will be announced at a later date.

From surreal footwear and embellished handbags to color maximalism, the return of physical media, and the growing value of tangible objects, fashion is entering a distinctly more expressive era. Here’s everything we’re watching this week.

Welcome back to What We’re Into, our weekly roundup of the fashion, culture, technology, and retail stories shaping what comes next. This week, our nine-square board takes us everywhere from barely-there shoes and Y2K statement bags to major creative appointments, a new Gen Z magazine, Yeezy’s return to mainstream retail, the AI gender gap, and gold reaching new highs.

At first, these stories might seem completely unrelated. But put them next to each other and a much bigger cultural shift starts to emerge. After several years of minimalism, quiet luxury, neutral wardrobes, and increasingly digital consumption, we're seeing an appetite for the opposite: color, texture, weirdness, physicality, personality, and things that feel collectible.

This September, Into Archive brings its collection of rare and collectible vintage fashion to Casa Cipriani New York for an intimate two-day presentation during New York Fashion Week.

From September 16–17, 2026, a private suite at Casa Cipriani will become a temporary home for the archive—a considered selection of exceptional pieces from some of fashion’s most influential houses and eras.

Rather than a traditional retail setting, The Vintage Suite offers a more personal way to experience archival fashion. Guests are invited to browse the collection at their own pace, discover pieces with history, and experience the archive within the refined surroundings of Casa Cipriani.

What if your zodiac sign wasn’t a personality trait—but a very specific 1990s or 2000s runway collection? We matched all 12 signs to the archival fashion moments that feel suspiciously, almost offensively, like you.

There are two kinds of people who read their horoscope: those who want to know what is happening in their love life, and those who want to know whether they are spiritually destined to wear Prada.

We’re more interested in the latter.