PFW SS17: Sonia Rykiel
THESonia Rykiel SS17 show at Paris Fashion Week was done in tribute to the late French designer who the industry lost due to complications from Parkinson’s disease on August 25, at age 86. Imparting je ne sais ...
PFW SS17: Yohji Yamamoto
YOHJI Yamamoto put on another touchingly beautiful display of the clarity he finds working so well with a dark colour palette. Deep tones transcending colour choice were detectable in the serious way Yamamoto w...
PFW SS17: Mugler
EACH season since his creative director role at Mugler began, David Koma has continued in the tradition of the brand to give each collection it puts out a hook. Usually vaguely thematic – though curtailed to ou...
PFW SS17: Nina Ricci
PURPLE reigned at Guillaume Henry’s SS17 offering for Nina Ricci. Perhaps a tribute from an enthusiastic fan of Prince who just happens to have an atelier through which to express his emotions, or perhaps Henry...
PFW SS17: Balenciaga
DEMNA Gvasalia’s raved over reinterpretation of Balenciaga for the fashion history books was instigated again for SS17 by the Georgian designer. Looking back, and then fundamentally forth, to Cristobel’s coutur...
PFW SS17: Valentino
VALENTINO, since 2008 the result of a design duo acclaimed for stylish synergy, is now a one-man show. Pier Paulo Piccioli is that man – the sole creative director whose partner in cloth since around about the ...
PFW SS17: Giambattista Valli
GIAMBATTISTA Valli presented a collection of formalised frivolity in Paris this season. This contradiction of kinds came about in the use of a bashfully elegant black on white that dominated, set off in some in...
PFW SS17: Dior
IT WAS Dior Couture’s Chief Executive Sidney Toledano who hinted back in July soon after Maria Grazia Chiuri was appointed Creative Director of the brand that the world should “expect a new Dior”. After receivi...
PFW SS17: Rick Owens
DARKNESS descended on the Rick Owens SS17 show in Paris this week. Staged in a coiling stone vault, the models upheld the same bold walk as seen in previous collections – again with human deterioration in mind,...
PFW SS17: Dries Van Noten
THE SS17 show staged by Dries Van Noten very much resembled an art presentation. Models with a shadow stripe over their eyes or net veil covering their face were walking around flower installations trapped with...
PFW SS17: Saint Laurent
PARIS Fashion Week, SS17 – a season that will go down in fashion history as expectation rises in anticipation of how three of the fashion capital’s most high-profile houses will measure up under new creative di...
PFW SS17: Lanvin
BOUCHRA Jarrar presented her first runway show for Lanvin for PFW SS17 – after having already presented an earlier Resort collection – which she staged against the backdrop of Salon de l‘Hôtel de Ville with a b...
MFW SS17: Marni
THERE was an apparent shift towards simplicity at Marni this season. The fashion house known for eclectic prints opened its SS17 show with a series of white and ivory looks and closed with a couple of black one...
MFW SS17: Dolce & Gabbana
DOLCE & Gabbana gave SS17 a no-holds-barred I.T.A.L.I.A.N bonanza in Milan. Going heavy on the hot, spicy hometown influences stemming from Sicily and other islands Capri, Ischia, Pantelleria, and Capri, St...
MFW SS17: Versace
DONATELLA Versace did what she knows best – rallying female strength in sartorial form – in Milan for SS17. To do so, Donatella stuck to her sports-luxe guns for another season. Odd, as luxurious and glamorous ...
MFW SS17: Salvatore Ferregamo
THIS season Salvatore Ferragamo’s design team delightfully sticks to the house’s stylistic heritage, while allowing for some contemporary experimentation. This came from dainty day dresses decorated with artful...
MFW SS17: Bottega Veneta
THIS international show season is all about the spectacle. And Tomas Maier made sure to throw one of those to mark Bottega Veneta’s 50th anniversary. The show, presenting both women’s and men’s collections, was...
MFW SS17: Prada
MIUCCIA Prada presented an elegant and “safer”, albeit, beautiful collection for SS17. And intentionally so. But this is Prada we’re talking about, hence a mix of different prints, bold colours, ostrich and mar...
MFW SS17: Roberto Cavalli
PETER Dundas at Roberto Cavalli is doing a nifty job creating the kind of clothing Cavalli’s consumer base want to be liked in. Liked, that is, not just in life but perhaps more importantly online, by hordes of...
MFW SS17: Moschino
JEREMY Scott’s Moschino dolls dominated the SS17 Moschino catwalk in Milan. Deriving inspiration from Valley of the Dolls, the startling in 1966 novel by American writer Jacqueline Susann and subsequent 1967 fi...
MFW SS17: Giorgio Armani
GIORGIO Armani engineered complete elegance for his SS17 collection presented in Milan. Ticking all the boxes neatly within the tick box yet again, summertime sheerness was omnipresent from start to finish in a...