Fashion writer W David Marx shares a brief history of the US prep-school style, and why it continues to prevail in popular conscious today. Last summer, Jonathan Anderson’s debut show at Dior Homme ...

If you know the difference between wide wales and Nantucket reds, between the “right” dog (an English setter) and the “wrong” one (a standard poodle), and can distinguish between a Muffy and a Buffy, ...

When Jonathan Anderson made his debut at Dior in June, the models in his menswear show could just have easily been walking through the Yale or Harvard campuses a century ago. Anderson was all-in on ...

The return of prep has been in motion for some time. Scholarly tropes are now so at the centre of the fashion consciousness – via rugby shirts, loafers and the like – that their presence feels like ...

Every so often, a fashion show triggers a zeitgeist shift. More than any breathless praise or armchair analysis, it is a gut feeling that these clothes are going to change the way we dress. While ...

“It’s not about copying a style; it’s about making it your own, interpreting it through your own sensibility,” says Octobre Éditions brand director Arthur Person, citing a Gallic passion for brighter ...

Preppy style may not have ever fully left—we’d argue it’s one of the few truly evergreen menswear aesthetics, and one that almost every guy has dipped a (loafer-clad) toe into at some point—but it’s ...

In October 1980, Lisa Birnbach—along with Jonathan Roberts, Carol McD. Wallace, and Mason Wiley—released The Official Preppy Handbook, a satirical guide that, to this day, is considered a bible in all ...

Gen Alpha may throw 'preppy' around as an insult, but little do they know, it's making a major comeback as a stylish fashion trend this fall. These Mary Jane flats are the ultimate preppy chic fall. I ...

In the winter of 2020, my neighbor in Sing Sing told me that there was a true crime documentary on TV about Robert Chambers. The Preppy Murder: Death in Central Park was an AMC limited docuseries that ...

Katie Holmes’s favourite slouchy sweatshirt and trousers are on our autumn moodboard. Here’s how to get her look and wear the new preppy style without looking like you’re off to class. By now, we know ...

This is an edition of the newsletter Show Notes, in which Samuel Hine reports from the front row of the fashion world. Sign up here to get it free. J. Crew’s men’s creative director, Brendon Babenzien ...