Even though knitwear is usually associated with autumn and winter seasons, one can also enjoy spring and summer as well in cosy-yet-light knits according to John Smedley, a knitwear brand with over 230 years of...
Eclectic mishmash would be the best way to describe the offering for SS16 by designer duo Fyodor Podgorny and Golan Frydman. And one that worked together beautifully. The main inspiration – and also the brand’s...
Re-imagining the everyday, Faustine Steinmetz manipulates and dissects polo shirts, college sweaters and dresses with admirable lightness. Taking cues from Salvador Dali’s paintings of distorted objects and Jos...
London Fashion Week started off with birds’ chirping this season as designer J. JS Lee had flying like a bird, freedom and carefreeness on her mind for her SS16 collection. The motif of birds was apparent throu...
At Michael Kors Collection this season it was Kors’ modus operandi to remind spectators that his brand can still bring something new, style-conscious and high-brow to contemporary catwalks. Building on this, it...
The patriarch of American fashion, Tommy Hilfiger, took a rare step away from his beloved red, white and blue this season to present a more tropical and exotic interpretation of the all-American girl. The sunn...
Monique Lhuillier, the queen of beautiful and ultra-feminine dresses and gowns, made her SS16 collection shine bright with splashes of bold colours of watermelon, orange, electric blue or natural greens, includ...
To celebrate London Fashion Week, SohoCreate, Picturehouse Central and Atelier Millinery will be showing a special screening of Advanced Style – a documentary following seven women with a unique and inspiring ...
In a move that’s catching on among the Big Apple’s biggest designers, Zac Posen approached SS16 in a far more lighthearted manner than ever before. Restraining his colour palette to somber monochromes with only...
Diane von Furstenberg did her most to show that her designs can still be a force to be reckoned with in New York this season. Revisiting a flurry of the point-blank-glam boho luxe codes that she championed in t...
Caroline Herrera, a usual contender for outfitting her collections with all the bells and whistles of lofty luxury, stripped her latest collection back majorly in New York this season. Highlighting her most eff...
Joseph Altuzarra’s SS16 offering saw the designer tone things down furthermore, concentrating more specifically on lax elegance in yet another step away from his more glitzy salad years. This season also saw th...
In New York this season Jason Wu emerged as one of the strongest designers to make an earlier than usual start, thanks to an altogether more mature approach to intricately constructed garments. He allotted this...
Throwing caution to the wind in the face of the fabled and time-honoured international fashion week schedule by high-tailing it across the Atlantic Ocean and setting up shop in New York for SS16, leaving Paris ...
In New York this week Tadashi Shoji showed us a glimpse of what spring will look like next year. Sticking with the classics of florals, pastels, and light airy fabrics, Tadashi keeps the season feeling feminine...
Paul Smith did things his own way this season by fashioning his latest collection as a contemporary take on the new wave that hit music and fashion vice versa in the late ‘70s, lingering throughout the ‘80s.
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Hedi Slimane’s, and I stress – Slimane’s, Saint Laurent took one of its wackier turns this season, in a grunge-fest of Southern Californian riders on the storm in Kurt Cobain sunglasses proportions. That may we...
Showcasing his first men’s wear collection for Balmain, Olivier Rousteing decorated the Parisian runway with a variety of safari-inspired looks; encapsulating the essence of British explorers.
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Dior kept it very cool and collected for SS16, with menswear creative director Kris Van Assche drawing on Dior’s age old ability to refresh and refine luxury. This was centred precisely around a very modest exe...
Sacai’s Chitose Abe pulled out all of the stops in Paris this season for menswear SS16 by concocting a bricolage mish-mash of the flurry of textiles that the brand incorporates into their unmistakable brand ide...
The colour-obsessed, pattern-preoccupied, sensory overload that is Kenzo seemed far calmer at their SS16 menswear collection in Paris today. For starters, the clothing was all presented in a desert-type styled ...