MFW SS17: Salvatore Ferregamo

MFW SS17: Versace

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 ...
MFW SS17: Bottega Veneta

MFW SS17: Bottega Veneta

THIS international show season is all about the spectacle. And Tomas Maier made sure to throw one of those to mark Bottega Veneta’s 50th anniversary. The show, presenting both women’s and men’s collections, was...
MFW SS17: Prada

MFW SS17: Prada

MIUCCIA Prada presented an elegant and “safer”, albeit, beautiful collection for SS17. And intentionally so. But this is Prada we’re talking about, hence a mix of different prints, bold colours, ostrich and mar...
MFW SS17: Giorgio Armani

MFW SS17: Moschino

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...
MFW SS17: Giorgio Armani

MFW SS17: Fendi

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...
MFW SS17: Giorgio Armani

MFW SS17: Gucci

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...
Front Cover. Zac Posen

NYFW SS17: Zac Posen

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...
Burberry September 2016 collection

LFW SS17: Burberry

IT SEEMS that along with the new see-now-buy-now format comes a lot of grandeur, perhaps to properly celebrate its premier. In New York, Tom Ford threw a elegant dinner for his guests in the former Four Seasons...

LFW SS17: Paula Knorr

FOR Paula Knorr, a newcomer to LFW supported by Topshop’s Newgen scheme for young designers, the female body is a canvas to draw upon. Literally. Her SS17 collection, presented at the ICA, was full of pieces fe...

LFW SS17: Belstaff

A BELSTAFF presentation is always more like a party – a civilized soiree that is. The SS17 event was no different. The venue was buzzing, fashion crowd was standing in groups chatting away and sipping on cockta...

LFW SS17: Jasper Conran

WITH  his SS17 collection, Jasper Conran, presenting an offering of nothing but dresses, screamed, elegantly of course, summer holiday. This was something Tilda Swinton could have added to her Sicily getaway go...

LFW SS17: PPQ

THIS summer it seemed that Greece was the main holiday destination of choice. Next year, we will be packing our espadrilles for Spain. At least according to Amy Molyneaux and Percy Parker of PPQ as their SS17 s...