PFW SS15: Louis Vuitton
Nicholas Ghesquière’s follow up to his all-eyes-on-Vuitton debut last season was just as ambitious. For SS15 he wanted his collection to brave the frontiers of worldy, artisanal creations, just with a little bi...
PFW SS15: Sonia Rykiel
Julie de Libran did Bardot on Mediterranean safari for her Sonia Rykiel debut, and then some. The debut turned out to be quite the fashion’y parade of quaint pieces that are sure to conserve the “lounge” dressi...
PFW SS15: Chanel
Lagerfeld is a master of doing things that’ll get people talking, mere hours after this season’s “I am woman hear me roar” Chanel’s show, it had taken over the internet. A bit like last season then. The man isn...
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...
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...
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: 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...
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 ...
PFW SS15: Nina Ricci
Nina Ricci is a house that puts us in a very content place for a brief moment before the PFW schedule rolls on, whilst they may always remain “safe”, they remain time-honoured, mature and luxuriate their brand ...
PFW SS15: Lanvin
Lanvin is the one French fashion institution that puts on the kind of show that really makes all the excitement centred around Paris on the last international stop-off SS15 will be making for the season really ...
PFW SS15: Roland Mouret
On the surface, Roland Mouret upheld his nouveau-Parisienne chic ideal for another season in Paris today. Though this isn’t just any other season, this year has seen Mouret’s name and eminence in fashion commer...
PFW SS15: Balmain
Rousteing rounded up his super-vixen troops in Paree today for a show that quickly got underway in the same vein as his previous few Balmain show-stoppers. A lot of the models present and accounted for were in...
PFW SS15: Dries Van Noten
While we have generally seen almost analogous trends threading through each fashion capital so far this season, in Paris, designers are doing things their way. It was left to Dries Van Noten to do things his ow...
PFW SS15: Alexis Mabille
Alexis Mabille is a designer that, to the best of his ability, is able to restore order to a season in the fashion calendar when certain elements of fashion week sometimes are a little too off the wall for thei...