BALLET, movement and living in the moment – that was the inspiration behind Valentino’s AW16 collection. And the audience was most definitely living in the moment when seeing this dream of a collection parading...
AT LOUIS Vuitton Nicolas Ghesquière approached the conclusion of Paris Fashion Week with a big time sports-luxe sensuality for AW16. Inside a dramatic water-world colonnade set featuring mirrored columns reflec...
GOOD news from Jo Malone London. Their luxury Vitamin E Body Treatment Scrub, which is one of their signature products within the Vitamin E collection, is now available in a handy travel-size 100g tub, which me...
JO Malone London has just launched a brand new collection of fragrances to arrive just before springtime. Each one of the colognes has been inspired by the aromatic artistry of herbs, which is a first for this ...
A JAGUAR car conjures to the mind images of luxury supercars, subtle yet glamorous, racing into the night. The quintessentially British brand has producing fragrances in the past, but nothing quite like Pace, t...
THE greatest gift of life is friendship – but it’s easy to find a close second in the form of a glistening present, fresh from Cartier’s new collection. However for Sofia Coppola, the two come perfectly packa...
WE’VE come a long way since sneakerheels and boho jackets, was the declaration at Isabel Marant in Paris on Sunday. Marant’s signature boho was noticeably absent, perhaps signalling a change of wind for a brand...
ACQUA di Parma quite rightly has the air of the ocean within its blue bottle. Among a sea (pun intended) of overpoweringly musty, leathery colognes, so focused on sophistication that they border on eye-watering...
KARL Lagerfeld continued the revolutionised revelry of Chanel’s brand genealogy for AW16, presenting a costumed take on Coco Chanel’s signature garb. Rope upon rope of pearls included. Clocking in at just over ...
THIS week sees some of the world’s finest musical minds arrive in London for the start of Convergence festival – a 10-day celebration of music, visual art and tech that kicks off in various venues across the ca...
Aside from the more crucial proceedings for Saint Laurent in Paris this evening, namely presenting 42 haute couture ensembles at Hôtel de Sénecterre, Hedi Slimane brought sexy back onto the schedule. If not mor...
NEVER has Animalia print been seen as elegantly as it was at Akris in Paris this season. Creative director calling the sartorial shots at the Swiss brand, Albert Kriemler – a designer who rarely jumps haphazard...
GIVENCHY’S Riccardo Tisci whipped AW16 back to Paris this season where the designer laid on all the usual Givenchy-isms but with the emphasis on mystic. Placing the symbol of the eye at the clandestine crux of ...
At first glance Hermès played it very safe for AW16, taking it back to the all but rather inoffensive basics to deliver a collection that was nonetheless delightful. On much closer inspection you’ll see creativ...
BALENCIAGA is back. It’s bold, brilliant and – due to all this creative upheaval – it just about feels like Balenciaga again. Stepping in as recently appointed creative director is Demna Gvasalia, of the fashio...
DAVID Koma has put his all into his latest collection for Mugler this season, delivering glam graphic aesthetics and seriously sexy silhouettes. Truth be told it was probably the most “all” he has put into a s...
THROWBACKS were on the agenda for the design team designated to fill the void that Alber Elbaz’s shock departure in October of last year left at the Paris-based fashion house, Lanvin. A throwback to Alber’s hey...
BALMAIN’S creative director Oliver Rousteing newly uniformed Balmain army for AW16 and – curiously enough – newly coiffured while he was at it. Mixing up the dye jobs, Gigi went brunette, Kendall went dirty blo...
THIS season at LFW, Burberry pulled out all the stops. Not only through creating a spectacular vintage feeling collection that felt a bit edgier than the usual Burberry. But it’s also their first collection tha...
IN FRANCOIS Truffaut’s film of Ray Bradbury sci-fi title Fahrenheit 451, this is the temperature of the auto-ignition point of paper — the heat at which it will catch fire without being exposed to an external f...
IT MAY be winter outside, but in our hearts and on our faces, it’s spring, because weve been experimenting with the incredibly pretty Spring Creation collection from Paul & Joe Beauté.
Paul &...