Afternoon tea at Momo
Until yesterday all I’d ever had at Momo, the opulent Moroccan restaurant just off Regent Street, was too many mojitos. We used to pack into its cellar bar for the live music and lounge around on the big velvet...
Paris Fashion Week: Givenchy Spring 2014 Ready to Wear
Riccardo Ticsi, like others this season, turned to ancient cultures for inspiration for his Givenchy Spring 2014 Ready to Wear collection. Pop culture humor from seasons past certainly grinned sweetly from the ...
Joie de Vivier
It was a freezing cold and wet evening during Paris Fashion Week in March 2005. By now, Mr. Diego Della Valle, chairman and CEO of the Tod’s group, the Italian luxury leather goods company, had decided to r...
Paris Fashion Week: Alexander McQueen Spring 2014 Ready to Wear
Sarah Burton was true to her stated inspiration, Modernism, with her Alexander McQueen Spring 2014 Ready to Wear collection. The movement played with new form and eschewed the idea of a Creator designing the wo...
Paris Fashion Week: Valentino
The past seasons we have grown blissfully accustomed to Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pier Paolo Piccioli reinterpretation of the Valentino brand – a romantic historicism in a thoroughly new way. This Spring/Summer 2...
Glass LFW Party 2013
To celebrate London Fashion Week SS04, Glass magazine took over the Maddox Club in Mayfair along with Kristian Aadnevik. The stylish venue in Central London, entertained its guests with colourful cocktai...
Paris Fashion Week: Vivienne Westwood Spring 2014 RTW
The key to Vivienne Westwood’s Spring 2014 Ready to Wear collection may well have been on Dame Vivienne’s own head: a knit cap emblazoned “CHAOS.” Her chaos, this time, appeared to be in a muddy wood. Perhaps t...
Paris Fashion Week: John Galliano SS2014
Bill Gaytten worked hard in following in the footsteps and continuing to design for the John Galliano label after the furore around its founder's departure. A brave man and taking a new direction after the exha...
Paris Fashion Week: Kenzo SS2014
Kenzo's Humberto Leon and Carol Lim are masters of re-defining the idea of what's cool and the everyday cult. For spring/summer they channel the brand's influences for a good cause and some fashion activism, lo...
Paris Fashion Week: Yohji Yamamoto Spring 2014 Ready to Wear
When a master tailor known for the avant garde appropriates the very trend against which he first bucked, there is humourous beauty. Yohji Yamamoto opened his Spring 2014 Ready to Wear show with the all black p...
Paris Fashion Week: Céline Spring 2014 Ready to Wear
A gloriously quirked eyebrow, a dramatically graphic and long tank, and deliciously flowing pleats opened the Céline Spring 2014 Ready to Wear show. Then, with Look 9, a gold-rimmed cutout appeared over thick s...
Paris Fashion Week: Christian Dior Spring 2014 Ready to Wear
Raf Simons sent 76 looks down the Christian Dior Spring 2014 Ready to Wear runway. Metal, beading, cotton, pattern, color, black and white, graphic prints all made their way into the collection. Two nearly sepa...
Paris Fashion Week: Acne Studios
To the tones of At Sea performed by Swedish opera singer Jussi Björling, Acne Studios and designer Jonny Johansson presented nothing less than a marine inspired collection – complete with white sailor caps, nav...
Paris Fashion Week: Comme Des Garçons SS2014
Once again Rei Kawakubo presented a spectacle that was mesmerising, when we thought fashion was getting too fast Kawakubo comes in to slow it all down.
A large spotlight hanging over the catwalk swung back a...
Paris Fashion Week: Jean Paul Gaultier SS2014
Grease was the word at Jean Paul Gaultier's spring/summer collection, it was an all-singing, all-dancing fashion spectacle with energy and feel-good fun.
It was a take on Dancing With The Stars, the reality ...
PFW SS14: Ann Demeulmeester
In a Ten Magazine interview, Ann Demeulmeester, when asked if she is legendary, said, “Let’s ask this after I disappear one day…” Her SS14 Ready to Wear collection, with its emotional mystery is the sort of col...
PFW SS14: Haider Ackermann
Haider Ackermann’s spring 2014 collection show at Paris Fashion Week was a sexy display of sharply executed trousers and coats, and a showcase of the power of subtle patterns. Colours used in the collection wer...
Paris Fashion Week: Rochas S2014 RTW
Vibrant ghosts of demure housewives strolled the Rochas Spring 2014 Ready to Wear runway. Five year veteran of the house, Marco Zanini, blew airy freshness into what has become his signature ladylike look. Grou...
Dior in China
There are few names which conjure up the magic and artistry of couture quite like Christian Dior. So it was only fitting that walking into the maison’s new exhibition in Shanghai, which has completely taken...
Milan Fashion Week SS14: Marni
In their tenth anniversary year Marni designer and co-founder Consuelo Castiglioni sharpened the quirky aesthetic and re-articulated the Marni vision – a continuation of the profound change in last years Spring...