PFW SS15: Saint Laurent
The more we look at Slimane’s Saint Laurent, the more we realise how good he’s getting for the brand, and in our eyes, this isn’t just any brand you can pick up and drop after a collection or two. SS15 gave us ...
PFW SS15: Emanuel Ungaro
Let’s be honest, Ungaro is a house that’s come a long way since its founder’s heyday, and gone through a, ahem, strange journey since then. In the here and now, Fausto Puglisi is rightfully one of the most appr...
PFW SS15: Giambattista Valli
Giambattista Valli is a designer who likes to freight his designs with as much concept as crafting a single garment can take. This comes down to his couture backbone and because of this, he succeeds were others...
PFW SS15: Stella McCartney
On the seventh day of PFW Stella McCartney presented her SS14 womenswear collection which introduced a laid-back comfort, sensuality and summery air.
Being true to the sportswear-inspired philosophy of her d...
Dress you up
As a child, dressing up is a part of growing up and as long as we’re being forthright here, it shouldn’t end on reaching a certain age. Yuvna Kim is one of those wondrous designers that know a woman sho...
PFW SS15: Chloé
Chloé took summer frills to the fore in Paris with the type of flourishing textures that Milan couldn’t get enough of this season. We are of course referring to the spirit of the seventies that has been doing i...
PFW SS15: Givenchy
Once again this season, Tisci has tapped into the side of Givenchy that’s known for tis higher echelon of glamour, yes, finally, and don’t you think it’s about time he stuck to what’s best? Tisci’s Mk1 Givenchy...
PFW SS15: Akris
Akris is the one brand that can steep its designs in a bit of the theatric sass that fashion appears to be snubbing at the moment, while keeping it tethered to high-quality, thought-through oh-so wearable desig...
Luxembourg & Dayan gallery presents Alighiero Boetti
The Arte Povera artist Alighiero Boetti is renowned for his World Maps, which consisted of coloured tapestries reproducing the globe and made by women in Afghanistan. However throughout his artistic career, he ...
Pool your resources
As well as enjoying its recent cultural and artistic renaissance, with the opening of Tate Liverpool and being designated in the European Capital of Culture, the port city of Liverpool is also ideally loca...
PFW SS15: Jean Paul Gaultier
Last night saw the swansong of a decade in Paris when the French wonder jester of fashion bid a moving farewell to ready-to-wear with all of the incroyable rumpus the designer has single-handedly purveyed since...
PFW SS15: Mugler
The once indomitable House of Mugler has taken its fair share of knocks in recent years while it’s been dragged back and forth through the brand identity crisis bush. It's not so much a matter of dissociative i...
PFW SS15: Rick Owens
Widely known for the ambiguous mysticism that is expressed through his designs, Rick Owens' SS15 at PFW played on the balance between purity and sensuality from the one side; asymmetry and geometry from the oth...
PFW SS15: Kenzo
Today at a Parisian skate park, Kenzo presented its androgynous-futuristic SS15 show. Giant video installations with girly avatar figures talking in multiple languages about the luxury brand, depicted the “evol...
PFW SS15: Maison Martin Margiela
Channelling an androgynous take on grunge fashion, Margiela introduced an air of casualness at PFW for SS15 and thrust it upon navy pinstripe suits. In a variety of styles, the staple suit was reinvented, from ...
PFW SS15: Issey Miyake
Issey Miyake is one of those houses that quietly smiles to itself while weaving away dreams of its own fancy and remaining absolutely unphased by passing trends and fickle social mores. The house has always ref...
PFW SS15: Dior
If you’re ever running late to a Dior show and are not sure where to go, just look for the enormous crowd clogging up Rue de Rivoli and listen for the angry horns of drivers who can’t move for all the high-heel...
PFW SS15: Irfé
Surplus usually brings to mind one’s hoary leftovers, at Irfe this season in Paris, think again. Maison Irfe, one of France’s oldest couture houses to be making brand new waves, made a statement battle hymn of ...
PFW SS15: Yohji Yamamoto
For a designer who has always privileged scaling back the extroverted above mainstream fashion’s flagrant show-pieces tailored for the haut monde, Yohji Yamamoto was the designer who put on the most exaggerated...
Biennale Jewellery Celebration comes to Harrods
With a focus on skilled artistry and gem-setting in watchmaking, Harrods will host an alluring exhibition of the key-fine jewellery highlights from the Biennale show in Paris.
One of the most prestigious hi...
PFW SS15: Loewe
Loewe did their thing superbly this season, with a little help from Irish designer J.W. Anderson, that’s right, London’s androgyny advocating darling of Dalston. Taking summer's motif straight from the cutting ...