PFW AW20: Kenzo

FOR his first debut AW20 show as creative director of Kenzo, Felipe Oliveira Baptista explored sustainable ready-to-wear looks suggestive of spirit and vitality yesterday in Paris. Well renowned for his innovat...

PFW AW20: Saint Laurent

WHOEVER said fetish and glam don’t go together simply hasn’t seen the AW20 presentation of Saint Laurent by Anthony Vaccarello at Paris Fashion Week. At first glance, everything in Vaccarello’s collection is ve...

PFW AW20: Mugler

SENSUALITY was the key theme to take away from the Mugler AW20 collection for Paris Fashion Week Held in Palais de Tokyo, the French fashion house’s creative director, Casey Cadwallader, presented 32 looks agai...

PFW AW20: Dior

MARIA Grazia Chiuri, Dior’s first female creative director, certainly has courage – bringing her convictions to the runway – and not for the first time.  For AW20, Chiuri showcased her Dior’s womenswear collect...

PFW SS20: Miu Miu

SUSTAINABLE art transcends form in Miu Miu’s SS20 collection debut at PFW. Taking over the Palais d’léna, the Italian house joined forces with Dutch urban architecture and design group, OMA, to create a space f...

PFW SS20: Louis Vuitton

LA BELLE Époque, translated into English as The Beautiful Age, was the main source of inspiration for the Louis Vuitton SS20 collection. Reimagined in an almost futuristic setting, the backdrop reflects the nua...

SS20 PFW: Alexander McQueen

WITHIN a stripped down warehouse sweeping melodies of British composer Isobel Waller-Bridge gently signal the start of Alexander McQueen’s SS20 collection at PFW. Performed by the London Contemporary Orchestra,...

PFW SS20: Balenciaga

VERY recently the news broke that, in a highly gutsy move, Georgian designer Demna Gvasalia was leaving Vetements, the brand that propelled him to fashion stardom, to concentrate on his efforts at Balenciaga, t...

PFW SS20: Vivienne Westwood

VIVIENNE Westwood could be summarised – if the British fashion house could be at all summarised in a sentence – with her own words, “I'm the proof – you can't throw away tradition.” This belief in reinventing t...

PFW SS20: Rick Owens

ENTERING into a realm of fairytale meets grim modern-day political tension, Rick Owens evokes and references authoritarian politics in his SS20 collection. Creating almost-cyber like women, the collection is in...

PFW SS20: Y/Project

DRAWING influence from 19th century Parisian fashion and industrial trends, Glenn Martens materialises Western European fashion history with his SS20 collection at PFW. The show itself tied these ideas together...

PFW SS20: Off-White

WHEN Off-White’s chief creative Virgil Abloh announced that he would not be attending this season’s Paris Fashion Week due to unspecified health reasons, fashion acolytes all over the world were understandably ...

PFW SS20: Maison Margiela

IN response to the current mania of modern-day life, Maison Margiela explores the concept of control and uniform in their SS20 collection at PFW. Set in an austere-looking 19th century hall,  the background ...

PFW SS20: Mugler

SINCE taking over the reins at Maison Mugler back in 2017, Casey Cadwallader has been the contemporary antidote the house needs to revive its image with fresh ideas. With a reputation for pushing boundaries in ...