WOMEN AT WORK

Endlessly inventive and inspired, a small cadre of female designers is still running the show in New York, Paris, and Milan-with their ideas of what women want to wear right now more finely attuned than ever.

- Photographed by Amy Troost.

MARIA GRAZIA CHIURI

Actor Sarah Catherine Hook— lately seen as Piper on the third season of HBO's The White Lotus, soon to appear in Netflix's adaptation of the Emily Henry novel People We Meet on Vacation—wears Chiuri’s design for Dior; Dior boutiques. Fashion Editor: Tabitha Simmons.

STELLA MCCARTNEY

"Nothing flatters the form like a perfectly cut suit in beautiful, sustainable fabrics, and that's become iconic to my fashion house," says McCartney. "Something that makes you feel confident and like a boss bitch, and then you can hand it down to the next generation: It never ages, it never gets old." Model Liu Wen in Stella McCartney; stella mccartney.​com.

CATHERINE HOLSTEIN

“We're living in a moment where everything is constantly changing—I believe women want clothes that they don't have to think twice about,” says Holstein, who launched Khaite in 2016.

“There's a certain honesty I want to maintain: not diluted, not complicated, but forward-looking and direct.”