PFW18: Elie Saab Couture
THE GREAT GATSBY can eat his heart out. Staying true to form, Elie Saab’s Couture SS18 collection didn’t hold back on details. With the 1920s being an obvious inspiration, Saab has utilised techniques and texti...
PFW: SS18 Couture Hyun Mi Nielsen
JUXTAPOSITION between perfection and deconstruction, the Hyun Mi Nielsen SS18 Couture collection kicked off with an all black number featuring raw hems and torn fabric, challenging the concept of beauty appears...
PFW18: Jean Paul Gaultier Couture
BUILDING upon his love for individuality, French designer Jean Paul Gaultier’s haute couture SS18 show was a definite call for visual recognition. Known as someone who is inquisitive about everything and capti...
PFW18: Valentino Couture
VOLUME is key in the Valentino SS18 couture collection. Oversized balloons of fabric in vibrant yellows, blues and purples open the show. Belted with tight ribbons and draping bows, sophisticated jackets with p...
PFW18: Maison Margiela
MATERIALS stole the show at the spectacular Maison Margiela Artisanal Couture SS18 runway. Stealing the limelight was a colour-changing fabric. Put into action under the flash of a light, the rich-petrol grey t...
PFW18: Givenchy Couture
AS Givenchy’s first female artistic director, British fashion designer Clare Waight Keller’s debut Spring 2018 Haute Couture show was highly anticipated. Waight Keller's reinterpretation of the Givenchy legacy ...
PFW18: Chanel Couture
ICONIC Chanel tweed suits and matching boots opened the SS18 show at the Grand Palais. With modern adaptions to the classic Chanel trademark, Karl Lagerfeld has successfully reimagined the tweed suit in the for...
PFW18: Dior Couture
DIOR teased us with, what we thought, would be a full black and white collection. Held in the Musée Rodin, the venue was decorated with deconstructed bodily features and birdcages hanging from the ceiling. Grow...
PFW18: Schiaparelli
OPENING Paris couture fashion week and locating in the Schiaparelli atelier, Bertrand Guyon began showcasing outfits suitable for the everyday women with no compromise on elegance. Aligning with popular SS18 tr...
PFW18: Iris van Herpen
DEVOTED to the future of fashion, Iris Van Herpen’s SS18 Couture collection continues to pioneer modern materials, giving us an insight of what’s next for the fashion industry. Throughout the entirety of her ca...
Glass reviews Dior Catwalk: The Complete Collections
THIS year marks the 70th anniversary of Maison Dior’s first collection. Since spring 1947’s New Look, the house has seen six designers after Monsieur Dior himself, the latest being Maria Grazia Chiuri.
Dior C...
Haute Couture Fall 2017: Ulyana Surgeenko
THE nostalgia felt by Ulyana Surgeenko was heartfelt in her Fall 2017 couture unveiling in Paris. Harking back to the clothing desired and, indeed, worn by matriarchs, grandmothers and adored aunts who have inf...
Haute Couture Fall 2017: Atelier Versace
IN PARIS, the eighth arrondissement – where the Champs-Élysées is situated – there is array of high-fashion brand flagship stores. Among them is the Versace store on Avenue Montaigne where Donatella Versace deb...
Paris Couture SS17: Armani Privé
ORANGE is a hard colour to ignore and even harder to wear. Yet, once you consider the vast differentiation among shades, orange, like all colours, becomes more versatile and achieves new life through relation t...
Paris Couture SS2017: Elie Saab
THE divide between love and lust can often be hard to distinguish, given the similar rush of emotions and physical response. This confusion is oddly an interesting model for observing the distinctions between h...
Paris Couture SS17: Dior
IT was a Renaissance fair fit for a faery nymph, albeit a well-dressed one, at Christian Dior's Couture Spring/Summer 2017 show earlier this week in Paris. Maria Grazia Chiuri’s first couture Dior collection wa...
Paris Couture SS17: Chanel
It is one of the strongest years yet for couture, appropriately in response to the troubled global political climate. Couture, after all, works best when it lifts up and envelops the watcher with a rarefied moo...
Glass interviews up-and-coming designer Michaela Frankova
FROM her atelier in north London, the softly spoken but loudly expressive Michaela Frankova spins fairytales in fabric for a diverse clientele that includes everyone from fashion bloggers to celebrities. One wo...
Haute Couture Fall 2016: Schiaparelli
PRESENTING his take on thoroughly modern Schiaparelli couture once again this season was Bertrand Guyon who unveiled 43 looks at Place Vendôme in Paris for Fall 2016. Doing exceptionally well at making more of ...
Haute Couture Fall 2016: Ulyana Sergeenko
DEMI-GODDESS of demure couture, Russian socialite-cum-credible couturier Ulyana Sergeenko, put on a show of homeland glory for Fall 2016. Tapping into her Soviet-era heritage Sergeenko created a beautiful colle...
Haute Couture Fall 2016: Atelier Versace
ESCHEWING the high gloss that Versace ordinarily contributes to couture every season, Donatella Versace mattified Fall 2016’s grandiose garments in favour of taking control of silhouettes by experimenting with ...