Tagged haute couture

July 7, 2017

OPEN your books to the chapter titled A Tale Of Fallen Kings – that’s exactly what the Elie Saab Fall 2017 haute couture collection was – a fairytale book. The Lebanese designer showcased his latest romantic, m...

Haute Couture Fall 2017: Ulyana Surgeenko

July 5, 2017

Fashion, Fashion Shows

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: Chanel

July 5, 2017

KARL Lagerfeld is known for his extravagant runway shows so it was only fitting that for his Fall 2017 contour we were both impressed and not surprised that there was a 38m high replica of the Eiffel Tower at t...

Haute Couture Fall 2017: Guo Pei

July 4, 2017

MAGICAL, idyllic, romantic – these are the best words to describe Guo Pei’s Fall 2017 couture collection. Gaining popularity in the west, thanks to Rihanna’s 2016 Met Gala yellow dress, the models walking in t...

Haute Couture Fall 2017: Atelier Versace

July 3, 2017

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...

Glass attends Chanel Métiers D’Art 2016/17

Nicola Kavanagh

December 8, 2016

Fashion, Fashion Shows, Feature

IT’S no surprise that Chanel’s 2017 Métiers D’Art show took place at the Ritz hotel where Karl Largerfeld led the brand’s return to Paris yesterday. The hotel is intimately linked to the life of Coco Chanel, it...

Haute Couture Fall 2016: Schiaparelli

July 4, 2016

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

July 4, 2016

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

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 ...

From the Archive – Glass celebrates … Lanvin

Glass Archive

May 13, 2016

Archive, Fashion, Feature

LEGENDARY fashion house Lanvin bloomed from one mother’s love for her daughter. Since then, the rise and rise of Lanvin has encompassed some of the most celebrated collections and fragrances of the last century...

Actress Zhang Zi in Elie Saab Haute Couture, Photograph courtesy of Elie Saab

Glass investigates the rise of haute couture in China

Glass Archive

April 22, 2016

Archive, Fashion, Feature

Couture in China – Glass investigates the rise of couture in China and asks whether Asia could provide a lifeline for fashion’s highest art form HAUTE couture, French for “high sewing” has long been synonymous...

PFW AW16: Saint Laurent

March 8, 2016

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: Valentino

Sara Hesikova

January 28, 2016

Making their way through a bed of roses, the models almost floated in their lightness and fluidity, accentuated by a haze of pleated chiffon gowns, which were at the core of Valentino’s haute couture collection...

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: Armani Privé

January 27, 2016

Giorgio Armani palliated the couture high jinks he’s opted for in the past this season in Paris, delivering a little more subtle play on springtime custom-made garments for the world’s high net worth cognoscent...

Haute Couture Spring 2016: Alexis Mabille

January 26, 2016

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...

Haute Couture Spring 2016: Christian Dior

January 25, 2016

Fashion

Christian Dior Spring 2016, a conundrum if ever there was one and we are all thinking it. Sans any trace of a virtuoso creative director, Dior moved forward and gave the names Lucie Meier and Serge Ruffieux as ...

Haute Couture Spring 2016: Schiaparelli

January 25, 2016

Fashion, News

Schiaparelli’s creative director of eclectic couture creations, Bertrand Guyon, had good old fashioned gastronomy on the brain this season and went about seeking all the right ingredients for a fashionable cele...

Haute Couture Spring 2016: Atelier Versace