PFW SS17: Giambattista Valli
GIAMBATTISTA Valli presented a collection of formalised frivolity in Paris this season. This contradiction of kinds came about in the use of a bashfully elegant black on white that dominated, set off in some in...
PFW SS17: Issey Miyake
FOR PFW SS17, Issey Miyake’s collection was bright bold and brash. Creative director Yoshiyuki Miyamea, inspired by the vivacity of living, filled this season’s collection with colour-blocked Kabuki.
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PFW SS17: Dior
IT WAS Dior Couture’s Chief Executive Sidney Toledano who hinted back in July soon after Maria Grazia Chiuri was appointed Creative Director of the brand that the world should “expect a new Dior”. After receivi...
PFW SS17: Rick Owens
DARKNESS descended on the Rick Owens SS17 show in Paris this week. Staged in a coiling stone vault, the models upheld the same bold walk as seen in previous collections – again with human deterioration in mind,...
PFW SS17: Saint Laurent
PARIS Fashion Week, SS17 – a season that will go down in fashion history as expectation rises in anticipation of how three of the fashion capital’s most high-profile houses will measure up under new creative di...
PFW AW16: Valentino
BALLET, movement and living in the moment – that was the inspiration behind Valentino’s AW16 collection. And the audience was most definitely living in the moment when seeing this dream of a collection parading...
PFW AW16: Louis Vuitton
AT LOUIS Vuitton Nicolas Ghesquière approached the conclusion of Paris Fashion Week with a big time sports-luxe sensuality for AW16. Inside a dramatic water-world colonnade set featuring mirrored columns reflec...
PFW AW16: Chanel
KARL Lagerfeld continued the revolutionised revelry of Chanel’s brand genealogy for AW16, presenting a costumed take on Coco Chanel’s signature garb. Rope upon rope of pearls included. Clocking in at just over ...
PFW AW16: Saint Laurent
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...
PFW AW16: Akris
NEVER has Animalia print been seen as elegantly as it was at Akris in Paris this season. Creative director calling the sartorial shots at the Swiss brand, Albert Kriemler – a designer who rarely jumps haphazard...
PFW AW16: Givenchy
GIVENCHY’S Riccardo Tisci whipped AW16 back to Paris this season where the designer laid on all the usual Givenchy-isms but with the emphasis on mystic. Placing the symbol of the eye at the clandestine crux of ...
PFW AW16: Hermès
At first glance Hermès played it very safe for AW16, taking it back to the all but rather inoffensive basics to deliver a collection that was nonetheless delightful. On much closer inspection you’ll see creativ...
PFW AW16: Balenciaga
BALENCIAGA is back. It’s bold, brilliant and – due to all this creative upheaval – it just about feels like Balenciaga again. Stepping in as recently appointed creative director is Demna Gvasalia, of the fashio...
PFW AW16: Mugler
DAVID Koma has put his all into his latest collection for Mugler this season, delivering glam graphic aesthetics and seriously sexy silhouettes. Truth be told it was probably the most “all” he has put into a s...
PFW AW16: Lanvin
THROWBACKS were on the agenda for the design team designated to fill the void that Alber Elbaz’s shock departure in October of last year left at the Paris-based fashion house, Lanvin. A throwback to Alber’s hey...
PFW AW16: Balmain
BALMAIN’S creative director Oliver Rousteing newly uniformed Balmain army for AW16 and – curiously enough – newly coiffured while he was at it. Mixing up the dye jobs, Gigi went brunette, Kendall went dirty blo...
PFW SS16: Acne Studios
Crushed CDs and Perspex guitars established the with-the-band theme of Jonny Johansson’s Acne Studios Paris presentation. A DIY bluntness echoed in sharp silhouettes and electric blue fishnet knits mid-ladderin...
PFW SS16: Akris
Over at Akris this season Albert Kreimier delivered another smart collection for the Swede brand and also did what all designers in Paris should be doing all along, creating fashion that enlivens in its eleganc...
PFW SS16: Lanvin
At Lanvin this season Alber Elbaz did no wrong once again in a show that questioned what it takes to put together a collection of “trend” lead pieces dictated by more-ish marketability. Instead, the dynamic des...
PFW SS16: Alexis Mabille
Alexis Mabille was feeling fruity in Paris this season and an unexpected burst of watermelon motifs was the way in which the designer chose to express this. This singular design inflection meant sweet typically...
PFW SS16: Rochas
True to form, Alessandro Dell’Acqua presented a confection of the hyper-feminine kind at last nights Rochas show. Inspired by Gala Dalí, the eccentric and provocative wife of Salvador, the saccharine elements o...