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Haute Couture Fall 2016: Atelier Versace

July 4, 2016

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 ...

PFW AW16: Saint Laurent

Livia Feltham

March 8, 2016

Fashion, Fashion Shows, News

Aside from the more crucial proceedings for Saint Laurent in Paris this evening, namely presenting 42 haute couture ensembles at Hôtel de Sénecterre, Hedi Slimane brought sexy back onto the schedule. If not mor...

Haute Couture Spring 2016: Elie Saab

Anna Coughlan

January 28, 2016

Fashion, Fashion Shows

Elie Saab continues to bring out the inner princess in us all with his latest couture collection for SS16. The collection continues Elie Saab’s classically whimsical reputation with a reasonably natural and neu...

Haute Couture Spring 2016: Jean-Paul Gaultier

Anna Coughlan

January 28, 2016

Fashion, Fashion Shows

This week in Couture, Gaultier introduced a collection that is capable of making the late, great and much-lamentedDavid Bowie rise from the dead and sing with joy some of his 1980s output. It was a collection o...

Haute Couture Spring 2016: Alexis Mabille

Livia Feltham

January 26, 2016

Fashion, Fashion Shows, News

Alexis Mabille created classic couture for his eponymous couture house in Paris this season, doing so in a similar fashion to previous collections with one demarcating factor however; Spring 2016 was only about...

Glass talks to Jamileh Kamran – the designer behind some of Hillary Clinton’s defining fashion moments

Nicola Kavanagh

January 26, 2016

Fashion, Feature

Dressed for success – As Hillary Clinton makes her bid for president, Glass meets Jamileh Kamran, the designer behind some of her defining fashion moments Few people have heard of Little Rock, Arkansas, even...

Haute Couture Spring 2016: Atelier Versace

Livia Feltham

January 25, 2016

Fashion, Fashion Shows

Atelier Versace plunged necklines, scooped out cut-outs and hiked up hem slits to the hilt in Paris last night at their Spring 2016 couture show. Styling these statements with unashamed aplomb the legendary Ita...

Fall 2015 Haute Couture: Fendi

Roberta Lister

July 10, 2015

News

The Théâtre des Champs-Élysées was a fittingly grand setting for Fendi's season-defining debut on the couture schedule last night. Silver Moon was the label's first foray into Haute Fourrure – a triumphant disp...

Fall 2015 Haute Couture: Armani Privé

Livia Feltham

July 8, 2015

News

Giorgio Armani will forever be a designer who isn’t afraid of designing the kind of couture that is strictly for women who aren’t afraid to wear it. Armani’s latest Privé collection was debuted in Paris today a...

Fall 2015 Haute Couture: Chanel

Roberta Lister

July 7, 2015

Fashion Shows, News

Le Cercle Privé, Chanel's AW15 Couture show, was set inside a casino, yet Lagerfeld took no gambles with his illustrious house's time-honoured codes. The show began with a parade of the house’s most familia...

Fall 2015 Haute Couture: Schiaparelli

Livia Feltham

July 6, 2015

News

During Schiaparelli’s haute coutue turn in Paris this season the house granted creative direction to Marco Zanini’s replacement Bertrand Guyon, formerly based at Givenchy, Lacroix and most recently Valentino, f...

Fall 2015 Haute Couture: Versace Atelier

Livia Feltham

July 5, 2015

News

Donatella Versace traded in the usual Italo-house thrills for some more traditional frills at a rather atypical couture offering from Versace Atelier in Paris. Landing somewhere in-between Woodst...

Extra tickets released for Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty

Shiyu Tang

February 2, 2015

Culture, Fashion, Feature, News

The V&A’s spring headline exhibition Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty has now sold 30,000 advance tickets, online pre-bookable tickets sold out for the first five weekends of the exhibition. This has bro...

Alexandra Harper opens millinery shop in London

Cynthia Gregoire

February 1, 2014

News

Milliner Alexandra Harper opened her first shop last week in London. The shop combines her studio and marks a new beginning and personal milestone in her career in bespoke hat and headwear design. Origin...

Jean Paul Gaultier’s Butterfly Couture Spring 2014

Cynthia Gregoire

January 28, 2014

News

French couture designer Jean Paul Gaultier revealed his couture collection via a runway full of burlesque models in Paris yesterday. The collection was every bit a theatrical production as it was catwalk show....

Yiqing Yin SS14 Haute Couture MOTH Collection

Maegan Gregoire

January 22, 2014

Fashion Shows, News

French designer Yiqing Yin launched her Spring Summer 14 haute couture collection MOTH at Paris Fashion Week. Immigrating from China as a four-year-old girl, Yiqing has lived her life in many different part...

Chanel Couture SS 2014

Maegan Gregoire

January 22, 2014

News

Creative director Karl Lagerfeld chose a double stair-cased stage in a nightclub venue to showcase the spring/summer 2014 haute couture collection by Chanel. The first and last model on the runway was supermo...

Giambattista Valli Spring/Summer Couture 2014

Louise Lui

January 21, 2014

News

Fresh, youthful and spontaneous were the key words of Giambattista Valli’s couture show this season. Valli kept in line with his traditional botanical motifs and rich, sweeping fabrics, but reinterpreted them i...

Couture in China

Nicola Kavanagh

November 23, 2012

Feature

Haute couture, French for “high sewing” has long been synonymous with the very finest form of skill and craftsmanship. While the wider influence of prêt-à-porter often trickles down the fashion chain, haute...

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