Milan Menswear SS15: Gucci
The model Gucci mod was back at it again in Milan this season. However, this mod was seabound and seriously stylish to boot. There have been many a reference to the seven seas in Milan recently, some hits, some...
Making a splash in Paris – The Molitor Hotel
The nautically themed MGallery Molitor hotel Paris, located in the 16th Arrondissement, has recently opened with much excitement and anticipation. In its former life, the Piscine Molitor occupied the site – an ...
La Perla launches new menswear concept at Pitti Uomo SS15
La Perla, la crème de la crème of the luxury lifestyle lingerie set, if you didn’t already know, is much more than a seductively chic European brand. More so than ever after recent developments for the line cen...
Raf Simons/Sterling Ruby release A/W 2014/15 campaign
Raf Simons and Sterling Ruby released their Autumn/Winter 2014 campaign only recently and it’s nothing short of the typically reticent iconoclast material that we all expected. The fourth creative alliance betw...
Milan Menswear SS15: Prada
At Prada this season, the exposed stitch ensembles signaled that there was to be no deception, it was Prada laid bare. As always. Of course Prada felt compelled to tick all of the unisex boxes for “universal” c...
Milan Menswear SS15: Calvin Klein
As a brand Calvin Klein usually always has its finger on the modern woman’s pulse and its vital signs have always been healthy, but can the same be said for their menswear? I think so. This season, creative dir...
Milan Menswear SS15: Vivienne Westwood
In true Vivienne Westwood fashion, the SS15 show in Milan was explosion of punk nonconformity. She presented us with exaggerated suits, reminiscent of a mad hatter tea party with enlarged top hats, striking pat...
Elie Saab Resort 2015
Elie Saab has brought a sophisticated beauty into his 2015 resort collection. Veering from his signature comfort zone in evening wear and working his way into ready-to-wear, while maintaining the familiar flow ...
Milan Menswear SS15: Bottega Veneta
It’s impossible to be distressed by luxury, but in Milan today Bottega Veneta went ahead and distressed luxury. This season scaled back typically showy haut monde menswear in favour of ragamuffin suavity. Shape...
Givenchy AW14 ad campaign
Are Jamie Bochert, Peter Brant and Kendall Jenner in your party posse? If the answer is no, then you need to get some Givenchy in your life. In AW14’s Givenchy Ad Campaign, photographed by Mert Alas and Marcu...
Chic becomes Dublin
The born-again, post-austerity Dublin – small but perfectly formed – is a cornucopia of elegant places to be, from stylish hotels to quality restaurants and lovely, lovely things to buy – plus lots to gaz...
London College of Fashion BA14 Graduate Show
When you throw 26 budding young designers into the mix it makes it all the more easier to notice those memorable individuals with a real unbridled talent. Glass took on that knowing responsibility at the London...
Milan Menswear SS15: Versace
Versace maketh the man, and what a mighty good man they make. Undeniably, the thaumaturgy behind their menswear offerings is due to the pleasure Donatella takes in sculpting Hercules incarnate. This season was ...
Milan Menswear SS15: Dolce & Gabbana
Blood and sand and all of the other best bits of the “Spanish influence in Sicily between 1576 and 1713” made Dolce & Gabbana’s SS15 menswear presentation. “Made” has a little bit too much restraint though,...
Pucci Goes Large
Pucci has made its mark on its hometown’s landmark Baptistery, and over this past week if you happen to have been anywhere near Florence’s Battistero di San Giovann, one of the city’s oldest intact buildings, y...
David Lynch Revisited at the Barbican, London
It takes the contrast of a sunny morning to reflect on how delightfully bizarre last night’s dream was. What was spine-tingling then, is not so now – merely, a thrilling, removed feeling.
Running i...
V&A and China Merchants Group announce first major museum of design in China
This past week the state-owned corporation, China Merchants Group, and the worlds largest museum of decorative arts and design, the Victoria and Albert Museum, signed, sealed and are set to deliver th...
Art Basel 2014: Domenico Gnoli Beds
Domenico Gnoli’s life could be summarised as the classic story of an underappreciated painter who gains notoriety late in life.
Gnoli was born in 1933 to a family of art lovers. His father was an art historian...
LC:M Gieves and Hawkes SS15
Gieves & Hawkes output is always watertight. There is something about being the most respected mainstay on Savile Row that takes you places, and after over 200 years of creating some of the finest bespoke g...
LC:M Xander Zhou SS15
Xander Zhou was loud – I think he wanted to prove a point. Hot, heavy and throbbing, Zhou’s SS15 demonstration, labelled Hyperdrive, was a rather luring foray into the male psyche. As utility-glam as can be, th...
Join in the Fendi fun at Harrods
Time flies when you’re having Fendi fun. So make your way to Harrods right away to see the bright lights and furry amusements at the Fendi Fun pop-up on the Ground Floor of the Knightsbridge store, in what is s...