Paris Menswear AW15: Rick Owens
Rick Owens set out to break some considerable boundaries this season because, and let’s be honest, that is his job isn’t it? Starting off with some respectably chic double breasted leather jacketed ensembles th...
Paris Menswear AW15: Valentino
Valentino’s top creative dogs Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli’s stuck to the house codes this season for a menswear presentation staged in harmony with the design house’s affinity with pattern making...
A little out of the ordinary – Glass stays at L’Hotel on Paris’s Rive Gauche
A little out of the ordinary – Glass stays at L’Hotel on Paris’s Rive Gauche
The charming and petite L’Hotel on Paris’s Rive Gauche (Left Bank) is one of the last vestiges of a bohemian and artistic society ...
Calme: Qiu Shihua at Galerie Karsten Greve
Galerie Karsten Greve and artist Qiu Shihua will present Calme, Qiu’s first solo exhibition in France in ten years. The exhibition will show a selection of his oil paintings made between 2010 and 2014, which al...
Frieze Masters 2014: focus on the collector
There are many players in the art world: gallerists, artists, dealers, patrons of art ... however in my opinion the most interesting and fascinating has always been the collector. Many people may wonder wha...
PFW SS15: Leonard
It’s always a delight to see fresh talent emerge from Paris’ roster of high fashion high clout fashion houses every season, going on to garner all the attention it deserves. This season, that accolade went to C...
PFW SS15: Louis Vuitton
Nicholas Ghesquière’s follow up to his all-eyes-on-Vuitton debut last season was just as ambitious. For SS15 he wanted his collection to brave the frontiers of worldy, artisanal creations, just with a little bi...
PFW SS15: Sonia Rykiel
Julie de Libran did Bardot on Mediterranean safari for her Sonia Rykiel debut, and then some. The debut turned out to be quite the fashion’y parade of quaint pieces that are sure to conserve the “lounge” dressi...
PFW SS15: Chanel
Lagerfeld is a master of doing things that’ll get people talking, mere hours after this season’s “I am woman hear me roar” Chanel’s show, it had taken over the internet. A bit like last season then. The man isn...
PFW SS15: Emanuel Ungaro
Let’s be honest, Ungaro is a house that’s come a long way since its founder’s heyday, and gone through a, ahem, strange journey since then. In the here and now, Fausto Puglisi is rightfully one of the most appr...
PFW SS15: Giambattista Valli
Giambattista Valli is a designer who likes to freight his designs with as much concept as crafting a single garment can take. This comes down to his couture backbone and because of this, he succeeds were others...
PFW SS15: Chloé
Chloé took summer frills to the fore in Paris with the type of flourishing textures that Milan couldn’t get enough of this season. We are of course referring to the spirit of the seventies that has been doing i...
PFW SS15: Givenchy
Once again this season, Tisci has tapped into the side of Givenchy that’s known for tis higher echelon of glamour, yes, finally, and don’t you think it’s about time he stuck to what’s best? Tisci’s Mk1 Givenchy...
PFW SS15: Akris
Akris is the one brand that can steep its designs in a bit of the theatric sass that fashion appears to be snubbing at the moment, while keeping it tethered to high-quality, thought-through oh-so wearable desig...
PFW SS15: Jean Paul Gaultier
Last night saw the swansong of a decade in Paris when the French wonder jester of fashion bid a moving farewell to ready-to-wear with all of the incroyable rumpus the designer has single-handedly purveyed since...
PFW SS15: Mugler
The once indomitable House of Mugler has taken its fair share of knocks in recent years while it’s been dragged back and forth through the brand identity crisis bush. It's not so much a matter of dissociative i...
PFW SS15: Issey Miyake
Issey Miyake is one of those houses that quietly smiles to itself while weaving away dreams of its own fancy and remaining absolutely unphased by passing trends and fickle social mores. The house has always ref...
PFW SS15: Dior
If you’re ever running late to a Dior show and are not sure where to go, just look for the enormous crowd clogging up Rue de Rivoli and listen for the angry horns of drivers who can’t move for all the high-heel...
PFW SS15: Irfé
Surplus usually brings to mind one’s hoary leftovers, at Irfe this season in Paris, think again. Maison Irfe, one of France’s oldest couture houses to be making brand new waves, made a statement battle hymn of ...
PFW SS15: Yohji Yamamoto
For a designer who has always privileged scaling back the extroverted above mainstream fashion’s flagrant show-pieces tailored for the haut monde, Yohji Yamamoto was the designer who put on the most exaggerated...
PFW SS15: Loewe
Loewe did their thing superbly this season, with a little help from Irish designer J.W. Anderson, that’s right, London’s androgyny advocating darling of Dalston. Taking summer's motif straight from the cutting ...