Welcome to the Pradasphere
This May, Harrods invites you to immerse yourself in the world of one of our most revered design families and enter the Pradasphere. The retrospective exhibition will catalogue the multifaceted activities of th...
The must-have body spray from Tom Ford
This is a product that takes me back to when I was a pre-adolescent, just discovering the world of beauty, along with trainer bras and a game called spin the bottle. There was one thing that stood out in my m...
PFW AW14: Comme des Garçons
The monster within reared its nightmarish head last night in Paris, the instance Rei Kawakubo tangled the body in cramping, strait-jacket creations which abide to the designer’s conceptualist testament that cha...
PFW AW14: Kenzo
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
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
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
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
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...
Waldorf Astoria opens in Beijing
Hilton Worldwide and Waldorf Astoria Hotels and Resorts have announced the opening of Waldorf Astoria Beijing, the second Waldorf Astoria hotel in China.
The hotel offers 176 luxuriously appointed guest room...
PFW AW14: Junya Watanabe
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 ...
PFW AW14: Haider Ackermann
If the runway show were to start with the finale, and we saw a collection in its entirety to start, we might describe Haider Ackermann’s Fall 2014 Ready to Wear collection as “monastic”. True, there are plenty ...
PFW AW14: Roland Mouret
Roland Mouret has attempted to eschew a few conventions this season and his integrity has shone through his looser AW14 silhouettes and in honouring the genuine (couture) article, he claims, “We could get them ...
PFW AW14: Dior
Raf Simons hosted Dior’s AW14 high profile catwalk show at the Musée Rodin during Paris Fashion Week. His collection followed the theme of City Lights which showcased strong and determined women living a fast ...
PFW AW14: Vanessa Bruno
There was definitely something wintery missing from Vanessa Bruno’s show at Paris Fashion Week. For the Parisienne designer, AW14, was played as a pre-collection of the cold yet to come.
The looks were ma...
PFW AW14: Yang Li
Branded as a technician, working and reworking fit and structure to create, Yang Li presented an ambitious, structural collection for Fall 2014 Ready to Wear. Dotted with commercially viable menswear ...
PFW AW14 : Maison Martin Margiela
Sleek, fluid tweed strode down the Maison Martin Margiela AW 2014 Ready to Wear runway. The collection was by far not entirely in grandpa’s fabric, but the design team used Harris Tweed (in name and in pattern)...
Harry Winston: The King of Diamonds
Today is the birthday of Harry Winston. And in celebration of the late jeweller and collector, his legacy is shared in a short film.
Above all else, Mr Winston is remembered as a man who knew his diamonds. I...
PFW AW14: Nina Ricci
Peter Copping, heritor appropriate at Nina Ricci, who, going by the splendid throng of garments this season, fits into the feminine mould quite impeccably, provisioning the kind of heart and soul that the label...
Luxembourg and Dayan presents Thick Paint – an exhibition of works by Jean Fautrier, Franz West, and Zhu Jinshi
The New York gallery Luxembourg and Dayan will present Thick Paint, a collection of works by Jean Fautrier (1898-1964), Franz West (1947-2012), and Zhu Jinshi (b 1954) this month. Despite originating from dram...
PFW AW14: Isabel Marant
Isabel Marant collections never disappoint and always seem to have an all-together coherence with the previous ones. At Paris Fashion Week, for Autumn-Winter 2014, the effortless-chic parisienne brand presented...
PFW AW14: Balmain
For Olivier Rousteing this season doing what one does best is a noble gesture, something which designers should, by all means, always aim to sustain more often, henceforth, Balmain’s formidable jungle warrior e...