PFW SS20: Balenciaga
VERY recently the news broke that, in a highly gutsy move, Georgian designer Demna Gvasalia was leaving Vetements, the brand that propelled him to fashion stardom, to concentrate on his efforts at Balenciaga, t...
PFW SS20: Comme Des Garcons
AMORPHOUS. Overblown. Impossible to decipher. Such vocabulary has always been tethered to Rei Kawakubo's Comme des Garçons creations, that has references which often elude even those initiated into fashion circ...
PFW SS20: Loewe
ONE OF fashion’s greatest qualities is its ability to transport its viewers and wearers into another world, transcending reality and all its troubles. Yesterday, at the Maison de l’UNESCO in Paris, Loewe’s Jona...
PFW SS20: Off-White
WHEN Off-White’s chief creative Virgil Abloh announced that he would not be attending this season’s Paris Fashion Week due to unspecified health reasons, fashion acolytes all over the world were understandably ...
PFW SS20: Dior
SAVING THE EARTH and the rallying words of 16-year-old environmental activist Greta Thunberg have been looming ripe in our daily cultural vernacular. They were certainly firmly etched in the mind of Dior’s crea...
MFW SS20: Marni
TWO critiques have been perennially levelled against fashion: firstly, that fashion is mere fun and frivolity; and secondly, that fashion is complicit in harming the environment by only encouraging more and mor...
MFW SS20: Bottega Veneta
ALL EYES are set on Daniel Lee, the British designer now at the helm of Italian label Bottega Veneta. Since his arrival, his keystone additions to the brand (such as the ruched leather clutch bag, aptly named T...
MFW SS20: Jil Sander
AT THE Jil Sander SS20 show, Luke and Lucie Meier made a sartorial case for the axiom that opposites attract. Held at Milan’s Accademia di Brera, which was transformed into a serene temple of contemplation than...
PFWM SS20: Rick Owens
AT THE Palais de Tokyo, four imposing men, sheathed in floor-length robes with hoods, stride in, monk-like. They stand at the drums that have been placed at the rear of the runway and start drumming away, the r...
PFWM SS20: Off-White
AS THE soothing, mellow tune of The Beatles’ Blackbird echoed through Le Carreau du Temple in Paris, Virgil Abloh’s army marched forward through a field of white carnations, closing Off-White’s SS20 Men’s show....
PFW AW19: Giambattista Valli
FOR THE Giambattista Valli girl, the words “over the top” come across as something more flattering than offensive. Contrary to the sleek minimalism of the set, the collection delivered flamboyance and conspicui...
PFW AW19: Hermès
FOR a heritage leather house with as long a history as Hermès, staying relevant in face of a deluge of new designers and brands and the rise of streetwear presents a real challenge. Nonetheless, each season, th...
PFW AW19: Valentino
AT THE Valentino show, a luminous white neon sign read, “The people you love become ghosts inside of you and like this you keep them alive.” Artist Robert Montgomery's poignant words resonated throughout the ro...
PFW AW19: Loewe
HOT ON THE HEELS of the success of his much-lauded show at London Fashion Week and the launch of the third edition of his collaboration with Japanese high street retailer Uniqlo, Loewe’s creative director Jonat...
AW19 PFW: Rochas
IN A time where thanks to the frequent changing of hands, fashion houses run the risk of eroding their long-term aesthetic coherence, Alessandro Dell’Acqua takes French fashion house Rochas a step forward this...
Glass celebrates … the Song Art Museum, Beijing
LOCATED in a tranquil, landscaped garden along the Wenyu River in Beijing is the Song Art Museum, a private art institution founded by Zhongjun Wang in September 2017. The museum, home to 80 pieces of art from ...
Chaumet launches the Joséphine Aigrette collection
NOW, more than ever, is the time of women and to celebrate women. For their latest collection, French haute jeweller Chaumet returns to their original muse, Joséphine, and celebrates her, not for being the wife...
PFW SS19: Chanel
CHANEL’s Karl Lagerfeld never does things by halves. Alongside running the creative direction of Fendi and his eponymous fashion brand, the fashion genius is well-known for executing a phenomenal spectacle for ...
PFW SS19: Akris
MANY great women have inspired fashion collections. This season for PFW SS19, Albert Kriemler of Swiss fashion house Akris has chosen to celebrate the spirit and joie de vivre of Romanian artist Geta Brătescu. ...
PFW SS19: Junya Watanabe
JUNYA Watanabe has always had a way with fabrics. Through his deft hand and artistic vision, even the simplest and plainest of fabrics are transformed something glamorous and sophisticated. This season has been...
Marques’ Almeida launches their Pre-Spring 2019 collection in Paris
IN times like ours where we witness extreme and rapid changes almost ceaselessly, sometimes what keeps us grounded is our roots. For their Pre-Spring 2019 collection, Portuguese label Marques’ Almeida takes a s...