PFW AW24: Chanel
TRANSFORMING the runway into the Deauville boardwalk, Virginie Viard – Chanel’s creative director – returned to the Maison’s roots for its autumn-winter 2024 ready-to-wear collection. Considered an origin poin...
Tina Barney lenses Dior’s SS24 campaign
DIOR's recently released ready-to-wear spring-summer 2024 campaign celebrates fashion as a way in which one can express and identify oneself while honing into all attributes of femininity.
The collection dr...
Alexander McQueen’s SS15 MRTW oversized sneaker
Alexander McQueen introduces a brand new sneaker style first seen in the Spring/Summer 2015 Menswear show in June 2014. The sneaker is distinctive in its design, with its exaggerated proportions and oversized r...
Alexander McQueen launches AW14 inspired prêt-à-porter collection
The true autumn temporal season is upon us, thankfully allowing the sartorial cognoscenti to rack in what gems last year’s AW 2014 shows foretold. In stores and online now is the anticipated Alexander McQueen A...
PFW SS15: Giambattista Valli
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...
Hermès announce new artistic director for women’s RTW
Meanwhile in Paris this past week, Hermès has spoken; Lemaire is out and Vanhee-Cybulski is in. Usurping the previous head of design at Hermès, Christophe Lemaire, Nadège Vanhee-Cybulski has officially taken on...
Bamford braves new frontiers
“New growth – above all optimism”, and if you take Carole Bamford’s word for it, the recent developments that have unfolded at the benefit of her eponymous RTW label throughout March clearly attest to her decl...
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...
La Dolce Vita
In London this season Antonio Berardi restrained his often lustful female with a new sensuality, or sex with a brain, to put it directly. Reinforced by his architectural cuts, the body becomes sculpted by, ...
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: 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: 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...
MFW AW14: Giorgio Armani
Grey - classic, clean, but in the wrong hands it can easily become bland, and this season Giorgio Armani made the decision to base his whole collection upon the run-of-the-mill hue, fabric wise, he chose, above...