6397 Pre-Fall 2025

“The silhouette evokes a sense of the seasons, a mysterious charm, a woman living,” reads a t-shirt in Stella Ishii’s pre-fall collection at 6397. The quote, designer Lizzie Owens explains, has been extrapolated from Martin Margiela: In His Own Words, the documentary on the elusive designer Ishii was interviewed for. It’s a proper description of Margiela’s oeuvre, surely, but also aligned with what Ishii and her team have built at this very New York label. “It is about a woman living, that’s it,” chimed Judy Collinson, who joined Ishii’s team earlier this year. The four women, Collinson and Ishii together with Owens and Jenny Smith, now design the collections practically by committee. A showroom appointment at The News is more of a roundtable discussion than the standard tour through a clothing rack. The result of this dynamic is, in the case of this collection, a nuanced assortment that considers the many ways and places in which a woman—at any given point in her life—wears her clothes.