PFW SS15: Nina Ricci
Nina Ricci is a house that puts us in a very content place for a brief moment before the PFW schedule rolls on, whilst they may always remain “safe”, they remain time-honoured, mature and luxuriate their brand ...
PFW SS15: Lanvin
Lanvin is the one French fashion institution that puts on the kind of show that really makes all the excitement centred around Paris on the last international stop-off SS15 will be making for the season really ...
PFW SS15: Roland Mouret
On the surface, Roland Mouret upheld his nouveau-Parisienne chic ideal for another season in Paris today. Though this isn’t just any other season, this year has seen Mouret’s name and eminence in fashion commer...
PFW SS15: Balmain
Rousteing rounded up his super-vixen troops in Paree today for a show that quickly got underway in the same vein as his previous few Balmain show-stoppers. A lot of the models present and accounted for were in...
PFW SS15: Alexis Mabille
Alexis Mabille is a designer that, to the best of his ability, is able to restore order to a season in the fashion calendar when certain elements of fashion week sometimes are a little too off the wall for thei...
PFW SS15: Balenciaga
Alexander Wang is proving his worth as creative director of Balenciaga sequentially by sending out the kind of clothing one expects from Paris – dressy, innovative and chic. Quite how he has the time to tick al...
Hermès announce new artistic director for women’s RTW
Meanwhile in Paris this past week, Hermès has spoken; Lemaire is out and Vanhee-Cybulski is in. Usurping the previous head of design at Hermès, Christophe Lemaire, Nadège Vanhee-Cybulski has officially taken on...
Bulgari unveil new high jewellery collection in Paris
The stars came out to see the sparkle at the Bulgari MVSA high jewellery launch on Tuesday night in Paris during couture week. Being the precious stone powerhouse that they are, they set the scene remarkab...
Fall Haute Couture 2014: Zuhair Murad
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 ...
Cahiers d’Art releases 100th issue featuring Hiroshi Sugimoto
Cahiers d’Art, one of the most prominent publishers of the visual arts in the 20th century, will celebrate its 100th issue of the Cahiers d’Art revue since its debut in 1926. Issue No. 1, 2014 is the third edit...
Fall Haute Couture 2014: Armani Privé
For high fashion this season Giorgio Armani stuck to those three rewarding basics – black, red and white. The beauty of that colour scheme when used correctly is that it is manifestly un-basic, and the veteran ...
Fall Haute Couture 2014: Alexis Mabille
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: Dior
It was Christian Dior who proclaimed “I created flower women” and even now flora is still a stylistic linchpin that won’t budge at Dior, it’s the kind of subject matter that isn’t too flamboyant for Raf Simons’...
Fall 2014 Haute Couture: Schiaparelli
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...
Paris Menswear SS15: Hermès
Hermès rubbed Glass up in just the right direction late last week at the Silk Ball in London, so we are all feeling rather good about them at the moment. What has become most apparent is the brand’s elements of...
Paris Menswear SS15: Saint Laurent
Hedi Slimane was called upon this season to call menswear quits with his bohemian like you Saint Laurent presentation. As for the newest string of his strictly Slimane garments it was all unrelentingly Hedi, no...
Paris Menswear SS15: Lanvin
There was an inordinate sense of pace at Lanvin on the final day of spring summer 2015’s menswear itinerary. All the same, if any brand has a firm hold on quick perspicacious elegance in our modern world it’s o...
Paris Menswear SS15: Louis Vuitton
This season Vuitton was a flavoursome bouquet of chic, and what really worked in Kim Jones’ favour was the felicity of matured seasonings, none of which overpowered. The creative director actually drew on his s...
Paris Menswear SS15: Givenchy
Tisci turned to the usual sporty tailoring this season, but if you just squint you might catch a glimpse of something a little different. A sense of divergence that is, for there was a faint sense of a SS15 Ric...
Paris Menswear SS15: Cerruti 1881
Cerruti 1881 skipped nimbly along a thin line between the urbane and the urban yesterday in Paris. With a copacetic flow of trendy forms, patterns and strong colours, not altogether feminine but not classically...
Paris Menswear SS15: Dior
Dior will always be Dior, touch wood. For now at least we are still witnessing all that bears witness to everything which should concur with the most delectable four letters in fashion. Kris Van Assche understa...