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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Channelling an androgynous take on grunge fashion, Margiela introduced an air of casualness at PFW for SS15 and thrust it upon navy pinstripe suits. In a variety of styles, the staple suit was reinvented, from ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
Breaking the monochromatic colour scheme to include a dash of yellow, Carven opened the show with golden hints to overbalance the neutral shades. The statement colour remained subtle yet distinct as it appeared...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...