PFW SS21: Hermès
IN A set punctuated by mirrors and winding marble columns splashed with prints of Greco-Roman goddess sculptures, Nadège Vanhee-Cybulski presented an expertly-crafted SS21 collection for Hermès to a small numbe...
PFW SS21: Loewe
SPOTLIGHTING the work of talented craftspeople has long been the métier of Jonathan Anderson. Whether it’s through his plethora of collaborations or annual Craft Prize, the 36-year-old Northern Irish designer h...
PFW SS21: Marine Serre
IN LIEU of a conventional presentation, Marine Serre offered her SS21 collection via a short film entitled Amor Fati. Chilling, subversive, futuristic, and strangely beautiful, the piece encapsulated the weird...
PFW SS21: Chloé
MODELS peppered around the bustling streets of Paris convened on the esplanade of the Palais de Tokyo on Thursday for Natacha Ramsay-Levi’s SS21 collection for Chloé.
Broadcast live on three enormous plasma ...
PFW SS21: Dice Kayek
DICE Kayek’s SS21 collection is presented as a vibrant, carefully choreographed fashion film directed by Marie Schuller. The film opens in a classroom, where three bored students struggle to stay awake – sudden...
PFW SS21: Balmain
IN celebration of Balmain’s 75th anniversary, 35-year-old creative director Olivier Rousteing presented a remarkable SS21 collection dripping with 70s glamour, harkening back to the earliest postwar designs of ...
PFW SS21: Acne Studios
INSTEAD of seeing the extreme change in daily lives, Creative Director Jonny Johansson of Acne Studios looked at the world's current state as a transitional period of hope.
As everything is uncertain, he bel...
PFW SS21: Dries Van Noten
THE Dries Van Noten SS21 collection is presented as a film and series of runway images by photographer Viviane Sassen. The film features projections of Len Lye Movies (a New Zealand experimental film artist), c...
PFW SS21: Ottolinger
IT IS interesting to see how lockdown changed the way designers approached their latest collection. For Berlin-based Ottolinger, creative directors Cosima Gadient and Christa Bösch started by asking the questio...
Dunhill SS21 collection
UNFINISHED seams, raw stitching and plentiful crease marks were front and centre at Dunhill’s SS21 collection presented this week.
In an ode to craft, creative director Mark Weston brought to light the inner...
PFW SS21: Dior – featuring the exclusive video of the set by Lucia Marcucci
SINCE being appointed the first female creative director of Dior, Maria Grazia Chiuri has refocussed the brand as for women by women – from feminist slogans on t-shirts to a podcast series during lockdown that...
PFW SS21: WALES BONNER
THE sun is shining. The air is warm. The Essence is rich in heat. As the second in a triptych of collections by Wales Bonner that explores the diasporic connections between Britain and the Caribbean, and the fi...
PFW SS21: Coperni
ATOP the towering Tour Montparnasse – the tallest building in Paris – Coperni held the first physical show of Paris Fashion Week.
With seats socially-distanced a metre apart, creative directors Arnaud Vailla...
MFW SS21: Shuting Qiu
FOR most of us this year, with the summer tourism season of 2020 significantly shortened, escaping to the sun-drenched bliss of the seaside has been nothing more than a pipe dream. Fortunately, Chinese-born des...
MFW SS21: Sportmax
THIS season, Sportmax presented a collection that was both romantic and futuristic: sleek tailoring in fine or sheer fabrics and neutral tones cut with an acidic lime green.
Models were windswept: strands of...
MFW SS21: Valentino
SEASON upon season, Valentino gives us a slice of wonderland reigniting the belief that fashion is magical. With each collection, Creative Director Pierpaolo Piccioli gives us a fashion fantasy, and there has b...
MFW SS21: Salvatore Ferragamo
WHEN Salvatore Ferragamo’s live-streamed SS21 runway began showgoers, and those attending virtually, were greeted by the unsettling noise of cackling birds.
Directed by Luca Guadagnino – the much-adored film...
MFW SS21: Marni
WELCOME to a new era of Milan Fashion Week. For its SS21 collection, Marni centres itself around a feeling of community, shooting its collection on the streets on Milan, using hand-picked archive pieces, that i...
MFW SS21: Moschino
IN A traditional salon furnished with white carpet, intricately-carved walls and lit bronze sconces, Jeremy Scott presented his SS21 runway collection for Moschino. Yet, this wasn’t just any Moschino catwalk. E...
MFW SS21: Tod’s
SURROUNDED by the sumptuous interiors of the Villa Necchi, Tod’s presented a digital SS21 collection of easy shapes and intricate detailing in an ode to the hand-made.
Debuting as part of Milan Fashion Week,...
MFW SS21: Etro
DRESSED in loose-fitting denim shorts and a halter-neck bra, 27-year-old model Anna Ewers opened up Etro’s sun-soaked SS21 runway show on Thursday, perfectly encapsulating the 42 looks that followed – romantic,...