KARL Lagerfeld has always been one for the latest best thing. For SS17 that was tech. Lagerfeld, in a way only imagined by him and imaginable through the vehicle that is Chanel, manifested tech literally by sen...
YOHJI Yamamoto put on another touchingly beautiful display of the clarity he finds working so well with a dark colour palette. Deep tones transcending colour choice were detectable in the serious way Yamamoto w...
EACH season since his creative director role at Mugler began, David Koma has continued in the tradition of the brand to give each collection it puts out a hook. Usually vaguely thematic – though curtailed to ou...
PURPLE reigned at Guillaume Henry’s SS17 offering for Nina Ricci. Perhaps a tribute from an enthusiastic fan of Prince who just happens to have an atelier through which to express his emotions, or perhaps Henry...
DEMNA Gvasalia’s raved over reinterpretation of Balenciaga for the fashion history books was instigated again for SS17 by the Georgian designer. Looking back, and then fundamentally forth, to Cristobel’s coutur...
VALENTINO, since 2008 the result of a design duo acclaimed for stylish synergy, is now a one-man show. Pier Paulo Piccioli is that man – the sole creative director whose partner in cloth since around about the ...
GIAMBATTISTA Valli presented a collection of formalised frivolity in Paris this season. This contradiction of kinds came about in the use of a bashfully elegant black on white that dominated, set off in some in...
IT WAS Dior Couture’s Chief Executive Sidney Toledano who hinted back in July soon after Maria Grazia Chiuri was appointed Creative Director of the brand that the world should “expect a new Dior”. After receivi...
PARIS Fashion Week, SS17 – a season that will go down in fashion history as expectation rises in anticipation of how three of the fashion capital’s most high-profile houses will measure up under new creative di...
In the run up to World Mental Health Day next month, UK’s leading autism research charity and Deutsche Bank’s Charity of the Year Autistica will explore the complexity of the mind and how mental health issues a...
DOLCE & Gabbana gave SS17 a no-holds-barred I.T.A.L.I.A.N bonanza in Milan. Going heavy on the hot, spicy hometown influences stemming from Sicily and other islands Capri, Ischia, Pantelleria, and Capri, St...
DONATELLA Versace did what she knows best – rallying female strength in sartorial form – in Milan for SS17. To do so, Donatella stuck to her sports-luxe guns for another season. Odd, as luxurious and glamorous ...
THIS season Salvatore Ferragamo’s design team delightfully sticks to the house’s stylistic heritage, while allowing for some contemporary experimentation. This came from dainty day dresses decorated with artful...
PETER Dundas at Roberto Cavalli is doing a nifty job creating the kind of clothing Cavalli’s consumer base want to be liked in. Liked, that is, not just in life but perhaps more importantly online, by hordes of...
JEREMY Scott’s Moschino dolls dominated the SS17 Moschino catwalk in Milan. Deriving inspiration from Valley of the Dolls, the startling in 1966 novel by American writer Jacqueline Susann and subsequent 1967 fi...
GIORGIO Armani engineered complete elegance for his SS17 collection presented in Milan. Ticking all the boxes neatly within the tick box yet again, summertime sheerness was omnipresent from start to finish in a...
KARL Lagerfeld the savant has long been a sort of sage to fashion no matter which atelier he commandeers creative control over. This was seen in his SS17 collection for Fendi where the designer showed us what i...
PLUSH and pink was the setting for Alessandro Michele’s SS17 Gucci offering, in a showy show that flirted with all the trimmings of a Wes Anderson-ian fairytale. As the star of the collection, the clothing took...
IT’S a safe bet that Zac Posen is going to give unadulterated elegance to all that he graces in life. In his atelier this season that started with rounded day suits resting softly on the body and then, in a tac...
THE night before London Fashion Week entered full swing for SS17, Glass headed to the St Martins Lane in Covent Garden, central London to pre-raise a glass to the season.
Glass occupied The Den, a modern snu...
Glass talks to the talents responsible for conceiving Zuma’s first Italian outpost – situated atop Fendi’s global flagship store in Rome.
WHEN two instantly recognisable brand names that are entirely committ...