PFW AW14: Chanel

Cynthia Gregoire
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For PFW14 Karl Lagerfeld transformed what was already destined to be a high profile catwalk show into an experience guests could only describe as sensory overload.   The mighty Paris Grand Pa...

PFW AW14: Acne Studios

Emma Walsh
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In a psychedelic display, Acne Studios paid homage to the 1960s – a decade where fashion was inspired by an amplified use of drugs. Clashing patterns thrust upon layer by layer in a collection that depicted urb...

PFW AW14: Giambattista Valli

Livia Feltham
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So red was the rose at Giambattista Valli yesterday in Paris, where the designer signalled unashamed femininity with a collection that shunned the masculine menswear mode that we have all become accustomed to t...

PFW AW14: Sacai

Maegan Gregoire
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Sacai’s collection for AW14 was an asymmetric but dazzling display of sheer craftsmanship. Designer Chistose Abe mixed polished looks with immaculately disheveled ones in contrasting fabrics for an artful dis...

PFW AW14: Leonard

Alison Santighian
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  Like the remakes of classic movies, this is the era of rebuilding classic fashion houses. With the Léonard Fall 2014 Ready to Wear collection, Yiqing Yin attempts what her two predecessors in as many ...

PFW AW14: Akris

Livia Feltham
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A master of the technical treatment, Albert Kriemler, delivered a studious, succinct collection that will certainly entice the cognoscenti, delivered with a spotless eloquence for the Swiss label, who, followin...

PFW AW14: Givenchy

Livia Feltham
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The sands of time have once again cast a new mode for Tisci at Givenchy, who has complied with a soft sophisticated luxury this season, an opulence harbouring tempting erotic undertones, in one of the most exte...

PFW AW14: Kenzo

Alison Santighian
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Carrying through motifs from their S/S 2014 collection, Kenzo designers Carol Lim and Humberto Leon also continued their honorable collaboration with the Blue Marine Foundation (BLUE). Autumn jackets, belted o...

PFW AW14: Maiyet

Maegan Gregoire
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Inspired by Frida Kahlo’s portraits and the intricacies of her work, Maiyet’s collection for AW14 took its direction from the different stages and characteristics of the painting process. Looks presented rang...

PFW AW14: Alexis Mabille

Livia Feltham
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Mabille will always be a designer’s designer, but thanks to a run that he continues to sustain, he can take or leave current illusions of easy breezy glamour, this season he’s taken it, and by Jove, I think he’...

PFW AW14: Yohji Yamamoto

Cynthia Gregoire
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Yohji Yamamoto showcased for AW14 at Paris’ Theatre National de Chaillot alongside the Eiffel Tower during Paris Fashion Week.  The 70-year-old Japanese designer showed no signs of slowing down as his compellin...

PFW AW14: Viktor & Rolf

Livia Feltham
Avant Art, News
Viktor Horsting and Rolf Snoeren’s grey matter was positively stirring today in Paris, with an ode to their infatuation for the slate v-neck, and don’t think for a second that this would make way for a dull col...

PFW AW14: Junya Watanabe

Alison Santighian
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If Junya Watanabe is still creating each collection “from zero,” as he claimed in  a recent article, and opts to let us see his clothing as our own minds will, his Autumn 2014 Ready to Wear collection gives us ...