The Body-Language Lesson Behind DVF's Spring 2027 Line

Designer Henry Zankov says the real education he got from Diane von Furstenberg had nothing to do with fabric or cut first. It was about what she called body language — reading a garment by how it moves, what it uncovers, and what it says before a word is spoken. That principle now shapes the house's Spring 2027 collection, credited in the show notes as its guiding idea. It is the kind of lesson that sounds simple in an interview and takes years to actually design toward.

With reporting from WWD Fashion.