PFW SS21: Issey Miyake
ISSEY Miyake’s presentation opened with a series of shots of SS21 pieces on plinths or laid on the floor: clothes positioned before their viewers like works of art in an exhibition. The show space was set up li...
PFW SS21: Ami
FINDING a silver lining in the middle of the darkness, Ami put the City of Lights in the spotlight this season. Paying homage to its hometown, the men and womenswear spring-summer 2021 collection was presented ...
PFW SS21: Hermès
IN A set punctuated by mirrors and winding marble columns splashed with prints of Greco-Roman goddess sculptures, Nadège Vanhee-Cybulski presented an expertly-crafted SS21 collection for Hermès to a small numbe...
PFW SS21: Loewe
SPOTLIGHTING the work of talented craftspeople has long been the métier of Jonathan Anderson. Whether it’s through his plethora of collaborations or annual Craft Prize, the 36-year-old Northern Irish designer h...
PFW SS21: Marine Serre
IN LIEU of a conventional presentation, Marine Serre offered her SS21 collection via a short film entitled Amor Fati. Chilling, subversive, futuristic, and strangely  beautiful, the piece encapsulated the weird...
PFW SS21: Chloé
MODELS peppered around the bustling streets of Paris convened on the esplanade of the Palais de Tokyo on Thursday for Natacha Ramsay-Levi’s SS21 collection for Chloé.
Broadcast live on three enormous plasma ...
PFW SS21: Balmain
IN celebration of Balmain’s 75th anniversary, 35-year-old creative director Olivier Rousteing presented a remarkable SS21 collection dripping with 70s glamour, harkening back to the earliest postwar designs of ...
PFW SS21: Acne Studios
INSTEAD of seeing the extreme change in daily lives, Creative Director Jonny Johansson of Acne Studios looked at the world's current state as a transitional period of hope.
As everything is uncertain, he bel...
PFW SS21: Ottolinger
IT IS interesting to see how lockdown changed the way designers approached their latest collection. For Berlin-based Ottolinger, creative directors Cosima Gadient and Christa Bösch started by asking the questio...
PFW SS21: Dior – featuring the exclusive video of the set by Lucia Marcucci
SINCE being appointed the first female creative director of Dior, Maria Grazia Chiuri has refocussed the brand as for women by women – from feminist slogans on t-shirts to a podcast series during lockdown that...
PFW SS21: WALES BONNER
THE sun is shining. The air is warm. The Essence is rich in heat. As the second in a triptych of collections by Wales Bonner that explores the diasporic connections between Britain and the Caribbean, and the fi...
PFW SS21: Coperni
ATOP the towering Tour Montparnasse – the tallest building in Paris – Coperni held the first physical show of Paris Fashion Week.
With seats socially-distanced a metre apart, creative directors Arnaud Vailla...
PFWM SS21: Jacquemus
FASHION, for Simone Porte Jacquemus, is a sentimental subject. Created in memory of his late mother, the Jacquemus label is born out of deep-rooted melancholia, but it seems that sentiments of love and loss pos...
PFWM SS21: Lemaire
IN THE AGE of fast fashion, Lemaire goes against the grain by focusing on conscious consumerism. The low-key luxury label prides itself on crafting well-made clothes from quality materials, resisting trend patt...
PFWM SS21: Hermès
HERMÈS’ Véronique Nichanian has been at the helm of the label's men's universe for over three decades, designing some of the greatest creations to ever grace the ready-to-wear runway. Despite the ongoing disrup...
PFW SS21: Loewe
WHILE digital fashion week can be a wonderful opportunity to experiment with the format of fashion week, it lacks something crucial. The need to see, touch, and fully immerse yourself in a collection – somethin...
PFWM SS21: Doublet
DOUBLET'S Spring/Summer 2021 collection titled A VERY MERRY UNBIRTHDAY FOR YOU presents a playful, youthful narrative that exhibits the label's relaxed, eclectic ethos emblematic of youth culture and fun.
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Haute Couture AW20: Elie Saab
IN THE midst of challenges brought on by lockdowns and the current pandemic, Elie Saab was among the ample curation of couture houses to share digital footage comprising insight into his upcoming collection. Ha...
Haute Couture AW20: Schiaparelli
COMMENCING an enthrallingly different yet innovative start to couture week, Schiaparelli opted to tease its latest AW20 couture collection with a sublime curation of sketches drawn by the House’s creative direc...
Haute Couture AW20: Christian Dior
REIMAGINING haute couture in a space away from the catwalks, Dior takes its lens to another world entirely. In a film directed by Matteo Garrone, Italian maker of fantasy films including Pinocchio (2019), Dior ...
Glass takes a look behind the seams of Alexander McQueen’s SS20 endangered flower print
AN ODE to the house’s long-lasting love affair with the natural world, Alexander McQueen have released images that document the making of their SS20 endangered flower print. This comes after the house announced...