PFW SS15: Dries Van Noten
While we have generally seen almost analogous trends threading through each fashion capital so far this season, in Paris, designers are doing things their way. It was left to Dries Van Noten to do things his ow...
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...
PFW AW14: Elie Saab
With an ombre effect of aubergine clouding the opening of the Elie Saab AW14 show, Paris fashion week was subject to chic block colouring in an array of purples.
In true Elie Saab style, he featured elegant ...
PFW AW14: Miu Miu
Miuccia Prada hosted her AW14 catwalk show for Miu Miu in PFW, this season, at the grand Palais d'Iéna venue. Scaffolding and clear plastic material was placed inside the venue and three tiers of guests watched...
PFW AW14: Hermès
Hermès sauntered casually onto the schedule yesterday in Paris, closing PFW, and the renowned brand, known for their lucrative slow and steady approach, capped off the season with real luxury, the kind of luxur...
PFW AW14: Jean Paul Gaultier
Jean Paul Gaultier’s AW14 catwalk show during Paris Fashion Week took as its theme the grand adventure of fashion, which is what the industry has grown to expect from the designer’s spectacular showcases.
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PFW AW14: Louis Vuitton
It was the dawning of the age of Ghesquière at Louis Vuitton today in Paris, and going by his much anticipated debut, the future of Louis Vuitton will be just that, anticipated joyfully in captivating earnest. ...
PFW AW14: Acne Studios
In a psychedelic display, Acne Studios paid homage to the 1960s – a decade where fashion was inspired by an amplified use of drugs. Clashing patterns thrust upon layer by layer in a collection that depicted urb...
PFW AW14: Giambattista Valli
So red was the rose at Giambattista Valli yesterday in Paris, where the designer signalled unashamed femininity with a collection that shunned the masculine menswear mode that we have all become accustomed to t...
PFW AW14: Akris
A master of the technical treatment, Albert Kriemler, delivered a studious, succinct collection that will certainly entice the cognoscenti, delivered with a spotless eloquence for the Swiss label, who, followin...
PFW AW14: Givenchy
The sands of time have once again cast a new mode for Tisci at Givenchy, who has complied with a soft sophisticated luxury this season, an opulence harbouring tempting erotic undertones, in one of the most exte...
PFW AW14: Comme des Garçons
The monster within reared its nightmarish head last night in Paris, the instance Rei Kawakubo tangled the body in cramping, strait-jacket creations which abide to the designer’s conceptualist testament that cha...
PFW AW14: Alexis Mabille
Mabille will always be a designer’s designer, but thanks to a run that he continues to sustain, he can take or leave current illusions of easy breezy glamour, this season he’s taken it, and by Jove, I think he’...
PFW AW14: Viktor & Rolf
Viktor Horsting and Rolf Snoeren’s grey matter was positively stirring today in Paris, with an ode to their infatuation for the slate v-neck, and don’t think for a second that this would make way for a dull col...
PFW AW14: Roland Mouret
Roland Mouret has attempted to eschew a few conventions this season and his integrity has shone through his looser AW14 silhouettes and in honouring the genuine (couture) article, he claims, “We could get them ...
PFW AW14: Nina Ricci
Peter Copping, heritor appropriate at Nina Ricci, who, going by the splendid throng of garments this season, fits into the feminine mould quite impeccably, provisioning the kind of heart and soul that the label...
PFW AW14: Balmain
For Olivier Rousteing this season doing what one does best is a noble gesture, something which designers should, by all means, always aim to sustain more often, henceforth, Balmain’s formidable jungle warrior e...
PFW AW14: Balenciaga
Balenciaga kicked off another day for Paris Fashion Week with a bright and early 9am catwalk show. This is the third year Alexander Wang has worked as Creative Director for this prestigious fashion house.
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PFW AW14: Vionnet
It was “tulipomania” at Vionnet this season, almost to the extent of that great Dutch tulip bubble of 1637, almost. Nonetheless, it’s clear that Goga Ashkenazi wants to syphon the horticultural motif into the V...
PFW AW14: Gareth Pugh
Paris is the perfect playground for Pugh, always ready to indulge his conceptual vision and sleek, innovative approach to fashion. This season he went all white – a stark contrast to his usual display of black ...