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PFW AW21: Balmain

AS WE remain in yet another month of lockdown, nostalgia about freedom and holidaying has become ever-more intense. This season, Balmain’s AW21 show provides us with an outlet as the collection embodies the con...

PFW AW21: Chanel

INSIDE the Parisian club Castel, where the saying “dress to impress” is mandatory for entry, Virginie Viard takes us dancing for Chanel’s autumn-winter 2021 collection. Rewinding back not only to a time where s...
Givenchy AW21

PFW AW21: Givenchy

A NEW era at Givenchy has begun. Creative Director Matthew Williams presented his AW21 collection on Sunday as a pulse-pounding co-ed runway show, solidifying the stern new look the American designer has been c...
Dior AW21

PFW AW21: Dior

IN THE moonlit halls and labyrinthian gardens of the Château de Versailles, Maria Grazia Chiuri conjured a Dior spectacular that delved into the mystery and surrealism of our most beloved fairy tales. This t...
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PFW AW21: Elie Saab

ELIE Saab tells an intricate story with the AW21 collection – taking us on an exciting journey between realms. Aptly entitled Reflecting Worlds, each piece possesses its own narrative, oozing poise, strength an...
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PFW AW21: Issey Miyake

ENTITLED As the Way It Comes to Be, Issey Miyake’s AW21 collection celebrates nature and all its glorious colours and shapes. Separated into seven categories to highlight nature’s facets, the collection predomi...
LOEWE AW21

PFW AW21: Loewe

THROUGHOUT the pandemic, Jonathan Anderson has proposed new, out-of-the-box ways to showcase lockdown collections at Loewe. Earlier this year, it was the Show-in-a-Book – a 200-page coffee-table tome celebra...
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PFW AW21: Rick Owens

AFTER 15 years of Paris shows, this season Rick Owens presents his AW21 womenswear collection in his very own garden. A product of the time, with a heavy focus on face masks, Owens embodies societal tensions as...
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PFW AW21: Dries Van Noten

PASSION permeates throughout Dries Van Noten’s AW21 womenswear collection in a flurry of eye-catching designs and intriguing gestures. It dances along a spectrum of extremes; from refined tailoring to loose-fit...

PFW AW21: Chloé

ONE HUNDRED years to the day, Gaby Aghion was born. Entering the world in Alexandria in Egypt in 1921, the daughter of a cigarette factory manager moved to Paris in 1945 with her husband. There, Aghion disliked...
Valentino AW21

MFW AW21: Valentino

INSIDE Milan’s storied Piccolo Teatro theatre, Pierpaolo Piccioli presented a new, sensual identity for Valentino as part of their AW21 collection. Presented digitally, Piccioli paid tribute to the Italian c...

MFW AW21: Dsquared2

WHAT do Canadian woods and party dresses have in common? The answer is the Dsquared2 women’s and men’s AW21 collection. Dsquared2 AW21 Showcasing a co-ed collection, the brand is preparing for the...
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MFW AW21: Giorgio Armani

GIORGIO Armani’s latest collection continues to exhibit a fluent evolution of his designs, effortless elegance and precision – and a delicate, yet bold, sense of luxury. Aptly entitled Nocturnal, the AW21 women...
Tod's AW21

MFW AW21: Tod’s

WALTER Chiapponi continued his individualistic expansion of Tod’s’ vocabulary this season, with an unexpected sporty twist on the label’s laid-back Italian classics. Tod’s AW21 Filmed at the Galleria Mass...

MFW AW21: Vivetta

FOR Milan fashion week, Vivetta transports us to a surreal world of divergent energies – a flurry of realism and absurdity – yet allows us to reach a sense of harmony beyond the chaos. Channelling the tranquill...

MFW AW21: Prada

MIUCCIA Prada and Raf Simons have found their groove. The much-anticipated collaboration of the two masterminds began with a collection that set the tone for what is to come. Some were disappointed by the lack ...