Lafayette 148 New York Fall 2022 Ready-to-Wear

Lafayette 148 isn’t a new name in New York fashion. The company dates to the late 1990s, and the building that it took its name from in lower Manhattan served the city’s fashion industry for decades before that, manufacturing clothes for some of American fashion’s most famous brands. Safely chic is a useful way to think of the company’s output; it became a department store resource for well-made tailoring and adjacent categories with a clientele that ran to well-paid C-suite types. With the retail landscape and shopping habits shifting post-pandemic, though, the company is pivoting to an own-store model (seven are in the works for 2022 on top of its two New York shops), and upping the fashion quotient of its collections. There’s even a celebrity dressing strategy. Jodie Comer wore Lafayette 148 while doing press for the new season on