All guns blazing
In a world of perfumery geared around old-fashioned ideas of “ladylike glamour” or “sweet femininity” Juliette Has a Gun a slightly edgier offering for the Instagram generation – variations of traditional rose ...
La Perla announces Naomi Campbell as the face of AW15 campaign
Fresh off the runway after her star turn as catwalk model at Givenchy’s SS16 menswear show in Paris the beyond supermodel Naomi Campbell has been announced as the face of La Perla’s new AW15 ad campaign.
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Paris Menswear SS16: Paul Smith
Paul Smith did things his own way this season by fashioning his latest collection as a contemporary take on the new wave that hit music and fashion vice versa in the late ‘70s, lingering throughout the ‘80s.
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Paris Menswear SS16: Saint Laurent
Hedi Slimane’s, and I stress – Slimane’s, Saint Laurent took one of its wackier turns this season, in a grunge-fest of Southern Californian riders on the storm in Kurt Cobain sunglasses proportions. That may we...
Paris Menswear SS16: Balmain
Showcasing his first men’s wear collection for Balmain, Olivier Rousteing decorated the Parisian runway with a variety of safari-inspired looks; encapsulating the essence of British explorers.
Like many SS16...
Paris Menswear SS16: Dior
Dior kept it very cool and collected for SS16, with menswear creative director Kris Van Assche drawing on Dior’s age old ability to refresh and refine luxury. This was centred precisely around a very modest exe...
Paris Menswear SS16: Sacai
Sacai’s Chitose Abe pulled out all of the stops in Paris this season for menswear SS16 by concocting a bricolage mish-mash of the flurry of textiles that the brand incorporates into their unmistakable brand ide...
Paris Menswear SS16: Kenzo
The colour-obsessed, pattern-preoccupied, sensory overload that is Kenzo seemed far calmer at their SS16 menswear collection in Paris today. For starters, the clothing was all presented in a desert-type styled ...
Paris Menswear SS16: Berluti
Berluti stuck to a safe selection of painterly primary colour hues, something that menswear is constantly trying its damnedest to popularise, and layered monochromes for a swish SS16 collection. LVMH’s resident...
Paris Menswear SS16: Alexander Wang
Channelling a masculine blue collar vibe, Wang displayed his SS16 collection with a consistent uniform aesthetic. Introducing fashions take on manual work ensembles, boiler suits and black dungarees were matche...
Paris Menswear SS16: Givenchy
At Givenchy this season, in his latest blast of high-style menswear, Riccardo Tisci took pseudo-religious brutalism to new heights. While his direction this season was guided by a higher power, it swerved unste...
Paris Menswear SS16: Maison Margiela
For SS16 in Paris, Maison Margiela resounded with drama. It was a collection comprised of many structured pieces as well as a few more relaxed vest-style tops, with overcoats sporting hemlines that nearly graze...
Paris Menswear SS16: Louis Vuitton
Over at Louis Vuitton this menswear season designer Kim Jones took his latest collection for the house on yet another voyage that spanned the length of Oriental chinoiserie and the breadth of Americano sportswe...
Why vinegar is the secret to great hair this summer
Summer isn’t good news where our hair is concerned. All that sweltering heat and perspiration can leave it greasy and stuck to the side of our face – not to mention it ending up dry and dull from all that sun, ...
Bottega Veneta launch AW15 ad campaign
Bottega Veneta have released their Fall-Winter 2015 advertising campaign in collaboration with photographer Juergen Teller.
Officially billed as The Art of Collaboration with Juergen Teller, it features m...
Villa Lena, Tuscany opens for summer
The magnificently resorted 19th century Villa Lena has just flung open its shutters for the summer season. It is set among rolling hills, olive groves and vineyards in the picturesque Tuscan countryside with mu...
Paris Menswear SS16: Valentino
On the first day of the Paris-based leg of menswear SS16’s gala performances, Valentino revealed its most unbridled side. Building on the fashion house’s increasingly fanciful transition now that Maria Grazia C...
Paris Menswear SS16: Raf Simons
Raf Simons was inspired by the 1970’s for SS16 – tartan patterns, extra wide flared trousers, even head scarves made an appearance on the catwalk for this collection.
Throughout the show any of the model...
Milan Menswear SS16: Canali
This season at Canali the menswear house has commendably separated itself from some more gender-warped-led trends appearing on the catwalk, singling itself out as the menswear force it is widely renowned as. Cr...
The Toxic Sublime at White Cube, London
It’s complicated, our relationship with the natural world. And Marc Quinn has found inspiration in that complexity for his latest exhibition with White Cube, The Toxic Sublime.
The first of the two bodies of...
Milan Menswear SS16: Giorgio Armani
Giorgio Armani opened up his SS16 menswear show, and by show, we mean a collection of always-stellar 74 pieces, with the kind of luxe lounge suit-wear Armani has accustomed the fashion world to. To expand on hi...