There is something inherently otherworldly about Barbicide. The electric-blue disinfectant, familiar from comb jars on salon counters and barbershop stations, is at once clinical and strangely luminous: an ordinary chemical that makes the tools submerged within it appear briefly suspended in another dimension.
There is something sacred about the ritual of getting dressed for the night—a transformation, an invocation, a declaration of intent. In her Fall/Winter ’25 debut, Tyler McGillivary captured this alchemy with Date Night, a collection that distilled the thrill of nocturnal glamour into 30 looks, each a love letter to artifice, desire, and the reckless optimism of a city that never stops moving.
The location for this season’s Anna Bolina runway show is a nondescript windowed room off the J train in Lower Manhattan.