PFW AW20: Off-White
HAVING taken a sabbatical last season, Virgil Abloh made a dynamic return to Paris Fashion Week for the showcasing of Off-White’s AW20 collection. Having declared streetwear dead in 2020, the in-demand founder ...
PFW AW20: Loewe
AN exploration of silhouette and texture, Loewe presents its AW20 collection in a search of new ways to work with craftsmanship. As characteristic of the fashion house, the collection stands out for its use of ...
PFW AW20: Chloé
MARKING her third anniversary at the creative helm of Chloé, Natacha Ramsay-Levi continued to establish strong silhouettes of powerful women for her AW20 collection. Garnished with Marion Verboom’s golden totem...
PFW AW20: Maison Margiela
REFERRING to his pioneering approach as “restorative”, Maison Margiela’s creative director John Galliano introduced the concept of Recicla to showcase his AW20 collection yesterday in Paris. An extension of Mar...
PFW AW20: Kenzo
FOR his first debut AW20 show as creative director of Kenzo, Felipe Oliveira Baptista explored sustainable ready-to-wear looks suggestive of spirit and vitality yesterday in Paris. Well renowned for his innovat...
PFW AW20: Saint Laurent
WHOEVER said fetish and glam don’t go together simply hasn’t seen the AW20 presentation of Saint Laurent by Anthony Vaccarello at Paris Fashion Week. At first glance, everything in Vaccarello’s collection is ve...
PFW AW20: Mugler
SENSUALITY was the key theme to take away from the Mugler AW20 collection for Paris Fashion Week Held in Palais de Tokyo, the French fashion house’s creative director, Casey Cadwallader, presented 32 looks agai...
PFW AW20: Marine Serre
MIND, Melange, Motor was the title of French designer Marine Serre’s AW20 collection at Paris Fashion Week this Tuesday. In tune with her previous post-apocalyptic offerings, this season Serre continued her com...
PFWM AW20: Acne Studios
SOOTHING palettes of dusky natural colour were the stars of the Acne Studios AW20 show, and the creation story of these looks were perhaps the most intriguing blend of technology and design that fashion has see...
PFWM AW20: Comme des Garçons Homme Plus
CUSTOMARILY, the Comme des Garçons show at Paris Fashion week held joyful bursts of colour, and pushed the boundaries with a gleeful mash of tailoring, texture and tenacity, typical of a brand helmed by the bra...
PFWM AW20: Dior
FIT for French royalty, the Dior show for PFWM opened with an array of duck egg blue silk cloaks – and the collection only got more opulent from there, in a beautiful homage to highly influential stylist Judy B...
PFW SS20: Louis Vuitton
LA BELLE Époque, translated into English as The Beautiful Age, was the main source of inspiration for the Louis Vuitton SS20 collection. Reimagined in an almost futuristic setting, the backdrop reflects the nua...
PFW SS20: Stella McCartney
“THE WORLD is crying out for change and it is our responsibility to act now,” wrote Stella McCartney on a leaflet given to each attendee before her show. Instead of a press release, McCartney presented the audi...
PFW SS20: Givenchy
NEW YORK, 1993. A time before Sex and the City and social media, and apparently, a year of inspiration for Givenchy’s artistic director, Clare Waight Keller. The year 1993 was a one of personal transition for K...
PFW SS20: Yohji Yamamoto
“I WAS born to be poetic,” Yohji Yamamoto told one journalist after his SS20 show at Paris Fashion Week. True to his word, the collection was as enchantingly poetic as possible, one which interweaved both the s...
PFW SS20: Haider Ackermann
THE Columbian-born French designer Haider Ackermann presented his new mixed ready-to-wear SS20 collection during PFW this season. The designer explored fashion beyond gender heavily inspired by the concepts of ...
PFW SS20: Vivienne Westwood
VIVIENNE Westwood could be summarised – if the British fashion house could be at all summarised in a sentence – with her own words, “I'm the proof – you can't throw away tradition.” This belief in reinventing t...
PFW SS20: Issey Miyake
AT ISSEY Miyake, performance art replaced the runway as models started circling the floor when out of the air, three brightly coloured hoop dresses appeared catching the eyes of the audience as they were lowere...
PFW SS20: Loewe
ONE OF fashion’s greatest qualities is its ability to transport its viewers and wearers into another world, transcending reality and all its troubles. Yesterday, at the Maison de l’UNESCO in Paris, Loewe’s Jona...
PFW SS20: Rick Owens
ENTERING into a realm of fairytale meets grim modern-day political tension, Rick Owens evokes and references authoritarian politics in his SS20 collection. Creating almost-cyber like women, the collection is in...
PFW SS20: Y/Project
DRAWING influence from 19th century Parisian fashion and industrial trends, Glenn Martens materialises Western European fashion history with his SS20 collection at PFW. The show itself tied these ideas together...