Anonlychild Spring 2025 Ready-to-Wear Collection

Previous anOnlyChild lookbooks were shot in a home environment, nodding at the low-key vibes that define Maxwell Osborne’s clothes, but this season he opted to let the city invigorate his designs. It was a smart choice.

“The idea,” he said, “was really to show city life and capture this girl in New York that isn’t dolled-up and frilly.” The images were taken by the photographer Tyler Joe, a fixture of the street style scene at New York Fashion Week, and they do feel like street style shots, contextualizing the pieces in ways that people might wear them in real life. The runways can push designers to present their work in a manner that doesn’t always befit them—clothes are often too styled, too dramatic, too glamorized. Osborne’s oversized track separates, bulbous bomber jackets, and wide, double-pleat trousers, in particular, looked fantastic in movement and with the streets of New York as their backdrop.

New this season were a silky tailored shirtdress and a couple of dresses and skirts with fun bubble hems representing a new more mature outlook on femininity. Sadly not pictured was a very special gown. Backless in striped cotton with a puffy hem that grazed the floor, it’s the kind of outfit that would make even a frantic New Yorker look twice.