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...