Paris Fashion Week AW13: Chanel
There stood a monumental globe, revolving. On it a map of the world with flags marking the precise location of 300 stores. We are of course talking about Chanel. You’re probably thinking this is a not so subtle...
Paris Fashion Week AW13: Giambattista Valli
Giambattista Valli has conquered two worlds to date - Prêt-à-Porter and haute couture. Where once they were borderline, now there is no dialogue between the two since he can let his imagination roam free in the...
Paris Fashion Week AW13: Stella McCartney
It’s going to be a big season next autumn winter according to Stella McCartney’s collection. And when we say big, we mean big coats, big waist drops and even bigger shapes such as plunging lapels and wide leg t...
PFW AW13: Christian Dior
Could there have been a more heaven-made match than Raf Simons and Christian Dior? The directors at LVMH must surely be patting themselves on the back for their smart decision making here. With his minimalist h...
PFW AW14: Balenciaga
Balenciaga has to be one of the most fascinating houses in fashion. Cristobal Balenciaga himself was hailed, even by rival designers, as one of the greatest couturiers that ever lived and his designs are held u...
PFW AW14: Lanvin
Alber, Alber, Alber, in how many ways dost though pleasure us? The Lanvin show is always a treat. Alber Elbaz’s impeccable taste and masterful understanding of what looks good on a woman make the collection an ...
Alice Horlick introduces Luxury Handbag Collection, AEVHA London
The London College of Fashion graduate Alice Horlick, the founder of the new luxury handbag and accessory company, AEVHA London became inspired to launch an accessory line after using leather and developing her...
PFW AW13: Saint Laurent
Hedi Slimane has famously moved the Saint Laurent design team from its birthplace in Paris to California but for one night only California came to Paris. Supermodels were turned into hip LA girls in nostalgic b...
Chanel Couture SS 13
Paris’ two big fashion power houses have clearly squared up against each other for this season’s couture offerings – it’s the battle of the botanicals. Yesterday saw the carefully pruned gardens of Dior, today...
Christian Dior Couture SS13
The second couture offering by Raf Simons for the house of Dior was a charming bouquet containing the tight buds of spring and the beautiful, full flowers of early summer.
This collection was a far cry from ...
The contrarian couturier
Yohji Yamamoto’s fashion constructs, renowned for their unconventional forms and innovative use of fabrics, continue to create a sensation thirty years after his first show in Paris. His clothes have upende...
Kitsuné Playlist
Blending the worlds of music, fashion and design, the effortlessly cool Kitsuné label launched in 2002 as the brainchild of Daft Punk’s art director, Gildas Loaec, and Masaya Kuroki. Since then the label ha...
New spice
Undeterred by the fact that some airport authorities viewed the bottle for Flowerbomb with suspicion, Viktor & Rolf have returned to the cheeky grenade shape for their second masculine fragrance, ...
Wish upon a star
In the long, dark winter days, the sparkle of fine jewellery invokes an illuminating and celebratory experience. With this, jewellery received at Christmas becomes the ultimate indulgent and personal gift.
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A year long date with beauty
How many teenage fantasies and workmen’s dreams have begun with a picture from a calendar? Miss August and Mr (whoever he) May (be) have kept smiles on the faces of innocent girls and jaded workers from Janua...
Roja Dove’s new fragrance Diaghilev is a tribute to the world of the Ballet Russes
WHEN it comes to the Chypre fragrances of the “roaring twenties,” one may think of lavish costume parities, Parisian chorus girls and prima ballerinas lavishly spritzing themselves before dashing onstag...
LCM SS14: Xander Zhou
Xander Zhou’s Spring/Summer collection showed at The Old Sorting Office for London Fashion Week. It was strikingly conceptual, drawing from an arena of popular culture than many contemporary artists, often excl...