Willy Chavarria's Paris Debut Was Romantic, Resilient and Real

On Friday evening, at The American Cathedral in Paris, Mexican-American menswear designer Willy Chavarria made his Paris Fashion Week debut--a fitting locale for the back-to-back CFDA Menswear Designer of the Year's transatlantic entrance, to say the least.Amid the venue's holy walls, Chavarria uncovered a Fall 2025 collection, titled "Tarantula," powered by his distinctive vision: one that materializes his own historically disadvantaged signifiers--his queerness, his biracial identity as the de...