35 Michael Kors Runway Looks in Honor of His 35th Anniversary

“I want to make clothes that won’t date,” a 22-year-old Michael Kors told Vogue in 1981, less than a year after he left Lothar’s, the Manhattan boutique he’d been designing for, to establish his own line. As the designer celebrates 35 years in business, we’ve collected 35 runway moments that demonstrate just how he’s achieved his #Goals. Clicking through you get a sense of Kors’s pet themes (ballet, riding, collegiate, prep, Western), palette (camel, gray), and muses (“dames,” including Ali MacGraw, Grace Kelly, and Katharine Hepburn), but the overarching takeaway is that, three-and-a-half decades on, Kors remains determinedly focused on making “real clothes . . . good clothes.”