PFW SS16: Christian Dior
Raf Simons at Christian Dior really seems to like his florals. At the SS16 show, set at the Louvre courtyard, models emerged from a field of blue delphiniums inside a mountain covered with the same flowers on t...
The Glass library
“When we arrived in Paris, Rei Kawakubo and I, we weren’t completely aware of what we were doing” – Yohji Yamamoto.
And so it started: yet another remarkable chapter in the life of this humblest of...
Fall 2015 Haute Couture: Christian Dior
Dior’s grand summer haze set brought to life the very essence of luxury couture, as spectrums of colour decorated the stage through magnificent stain glass windows. This playful theme of wonderland trickled dow...
Paris Menswear SS16: Raf Simons
Raf Simons was inspired by the 1970’s for SS16 – tartan patterns, extra wide flared trousers, even head scarves made an appearance on the catwalk for this collection.
Throughout the show any of the model...
Paris Menswear AW15: Raf Simons
So what is it that Raf Simons has to offer us this season? Something unusual perhaps? Of course. Sticking with the classic sort of punk aesthetic that the Raf Simons line usually has, there are a few pieces tha...
PFW SS15: Dior
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...
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’...
Raf Simons/Sterling Ruby release A/W 2014/15 campaign
Raf Simons and Sterling Ruby released their Autumn/Winter 2014 campaign only recently and it’s nothing short of the typically reticent iconoclast material that we all expected. The fourth creative alliance betw...
Dior Cruise Collection 2015 unveiled
Dior’s 2015 cruise cohort modelled a 66-piece collection earlier this week, and in what seemed to come and go in a New York minute. But time flies when you’re having fun, and Dior delivered, commencing the sens...
Artistic transgressor
The polymorphous art of Sterling Ruby embraces paradox, confounds expectations, and defies easy categorisation. Yet at the same time his creative output partakes of and helps establish new paradigms for definin...
Raf Simons Spring 2014 Show at
Raf Simons’ Spring 2014 collection catwalk presentation at Paris Fashion Week was headily women’s wear and children’s wear inspired, with models donning the likes of shorts jumpers with modest, kiddie-like U-ne...
Christian Dior Couture SS13
The second couture offering by Raf Simons for the house of Dior was a charming bouquet containing the tight buds of spring and the beautiful, full flowers of early summer.
This collection was a far cry from ...