PFW SS17: Comme des Garçons
COMME des Garçons’ PFW SS17 collection Invisible Clothes was accompanied by Henryk Gorecki’s Symphony nr 3, also known as Symphony of Sorrowful Songs. The atmosphere set by this melody was dark, intriguing and ...
Glass time travels with Urban Decay’s Alice Through the Looking Glass lipstick collection
AFTER previous and successful collaborations with Disney, including Alice in Wonderland Book of Shadows eye-shadow palette, Urban Decay has released another collection celebrating the second film in the Alice s...
The Blue Hour: An exhibition for one night only
TAKING its name from the time of day just before the sun rises and just after it sets, where time is ambiguous and suspended, The Blue Hour intends to unite six artists, promoting openness to prevail through ab...
Glass illustrates … LFW SS17: Pam Hogg
GLASS saw Pam Hogg’s collection for LFW SS17 at Fashion Scout where fashion met rock and tattooed unconventional models started dancing down the runway to the rhythm of The Kinks. Rockstar-designer Hogg’s shows...
Glass illustrates … LFW SS17: Isa Arfen
AT Isa Arfen’s presentation for LFW SS17, the floor was divided by tape into different sections where pretty and simple looking models were playing out different daily actions such as braiding each other’s hair...
NYC Gagosian Gallery Downtown Exhibits Georg Baselitz
IT’S walking into a room pregnant with portent – something ominous lingers unspoken between his giant canvases and monolithic sculptures. Georg Baselitz’s current show at New York City’s Gagosian Gallery 21st S...
Bentley Fragrances presents Infinite Rush, White Edition
FOLLOWING on from their wonderful Infinite Rush fragrance, a vetiver-induced ode to the modern man, Bentley fragrances has released Infinite Rush, White Edition. Designed exclusively for Harrods, White Edition ...
PFW SS17: Sonia Rykiel
THESonia Rykiel SS17 show at Paris Fashion Week was done in tribute to the late French designer who the industry lost due to complications from Parkinson’s disease on August 25, at age 86. Imparting je ne sais ...
PFW SS17: Chanel
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...
PFW SS17: Yohji Yamamoto
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...
PFW SS17: Mugler
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...
PFW SS17: Nina Ricci
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...
PFW SS17: Balenciaga
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...
PFW SS17: Valentino
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 ...
PFW SS17: Giambattista Valli
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...
PFW SS17: Givenchy
SET among the d’Histoire Naturelle grounds, Givenchy SS17 took a futuristic approach to its ambiance and open-air surroundings – creating one of the most picture-perfect locations, that Paris Fashion Week has s...
PFW SS17: Issey Miyake
FOR PFW SS17, Issey Miyake’s collection was bright bold and brash. Creative director Yoshiyuki Miyamea, inspired by the vivacity of living, filled this season’s collection with colour-blocked Kabuki.
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PFW SS17: Dior
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...
PFW SS17: Rick Owens
DARKNESS descended on the Rick Owens SS17 show in Paris this week. Staged in a coiling stone vault, the models upheld the same bold walk as seen in previous collections – again with human deterioration in mind,...
Plaitum release hypnotic video for MYO
ELECTRO-pop duo Plaitum have just put out a stunning new music video for their new song MYO, taken from the band’s most recent double A-side release Grace Hits/MYO. The single is out now via Wolf Tone records. ...
PFW SS17: Dries Van Noten
THE SS17 show staged by Dries Van Noten very much resembled an art presentation. Models with a shadow stripe over their eyes or net veil covering their face were walking around flower installations trapped with...