Fall Haute Couture 2014: Zuhair Murad

Livia Feltham
News
Zuhair Murad’s couture materialisations this season were something of a trick of the eye, a superbly stitched sartorial trompe l’oeil if you will. Look a little closer at his stunning designs and you won’t get ...

Fall Haute Couture 2014: Alexis Mabille

Livia Feltham
News
Couture is always a little, if not a lot, wilder in its grandiose diction. Alexis Mabille is a designer who knows how to tame it though, while releasing its chicest inhibitions at the same time, but maybe that’...

Fall 2014 Haute Couture: Schiaparelli

Livia Feltham
News
Marco Zanini’s second interpretation of Haute Couture for the House of Schiaparelli, now fully alive and kicking after the well-known revival last season, was all about the shocking factor. In the most resource...

Fall 2014 Haute Couture: Atelier Versace

Livia Feltham
News
Here came the girls at Atelier Versace in Paris on the first day of Fall 2014’s parade of haute couture creations. In an ideal world if there was anyone who could fly the flag for la femme, now that the boys ha...

Valentino SS14 Haute Couture

Roxy Mirshahi
News
Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaola Piccioli truly know how to thrill and win over the cognoscenti. The duo has yet again created a fantastical collection, yet this time with an unexpected turn in direction. Ever...

The story of fashion week

Jessica Quillin
Feature
Since the inception of New York Fashion Week (NYFW) in 1943, semi-annual fashion weeks have come to be the seminal events of the fashion calendar. Indeed, fashion weeks are the place where brands and fashio...

Couture in China

Nicola Kavanagh
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...