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The fashion world is definitely obsessed with the ’90s these days—blame Ryan Muphy’s Love Story. For fall, designer Prisca Vera Franchetti has just the right touch of sartorial style. Her new collection draws inspiration from the decade, though she’s less focused on creating her signature clean minimalism and instead referencing key silhouettes and patterns from the era, making them feel appropriate for her modern customer. “The series started off very grungy, and you can definitely see that,” she said. “A lot of the images in the mood board were from obscure shows in New York in the ’90s — these very dark, small shows.”
Sexy going-out looks are definitely Prscavera’s specialty, so Franchetti transformed the ’90s into party-ready pieces for her new collection. “I wanted to inject a fun element into fall,” she notes. “We were more adventurous with the color palette—more layering and transparency.” The opening look was a strappy low-cut top paired with a pair of bleached trousers—something people would wear to the club in 2026. She also designed a completely sheer plaid slip dress paired with separates like a studded black bra top and briefs, or a more demure black lace square-neck dress paired with matching leggings.
It’s refreshing to see Franchetti boldly experiment with individual looks in addition to regular dresses. She designed metallic blue sweatpants that buttoned at the sides—“I love the idea of being able to go out in sweatpants,” she says—and also expanded her outerwear collection, including a mint-scented Mongolian lamb wool coat with a matching handbag. “It’s definitely driven by what I want to wear and my definition of cool,” Franchetti said. Her lace-trimmed mini-slip dress and fuzzy cropped cardigan are exactly what you’d see the cool downtown crowd wearing to dinner at The Odeon (which, funnily enough, is having a moment thanks to the ’90s) love story nostalgia).
