MFW AW16: Versace
At Versace this season Donatella Versace ticked all the right boxes for the modern Versace woman, empowered in such a way that she is neither restricted by her wardrobe choices nor her right to display her own ...
Haute Couture Spring 2016: Atelier Versace
Atelier Versace plunged necklines, scooped out cut-outs and hiked up hem slits to the hilt in Paris last night at their Spring 2016 couture show. Styling these statements with unashamed aplomb the legendary Ita...
Menswear AW16 Milan: Versace
Donatella Versace put her outlook for the future on her spaceman Adonis’ sleeve this season at Versace menswear in Milan, an outlook that was for all intents and purposes, the male version of Barbarella. Then a...
In the final analysis
It was a season that saw some designers saying a new hello to the fashion pack (Peter Copping’s debut as creative director at Oscar de la Renta), some bidding adieu (Alexander Wang at Balenciaga) and some forgo...
MFW SS16: Versace
Credit it, perhaps, to the roaring success of Anthony Vaccarello’s rock n roll new Versus, but this season saw Donatella Versace drive her mainline in a decidedly more mature direction. SS16 is for the grown-up...
Fall 2015 Haute Couture: Versace Atelier
Donatella Versace traded in the usual Italo-house thrills for some more traditional frills at a rather atypical couture offering from Versace Atelier in Paris.
Landing somewhere in-between Woodst...
Milan Menswear SS16: Versace
At Versace this season Donatella didn’t alter her ideal man too drastically but emphasised one detail in particular – length is important. And so it was. Cue elongated silhouettes which extended the end of each...
Haute Couture Spring 2015: Atelier Versace
One of the pleasantries that comes with Spring season Couture, a gilded sphere that generally does not permit access to the masses, is deliberating over the dresses that are probably going to be filled by Holly...
Milan Menswear AW15: Versace
When you see the same chiselled faces in the Versace menswear line-up it’s comforting because you know these are Donatella’s boys, nay, her Adonis’, and you are in for another stellar collection. Though she has...
MFW SS15: Versace
Introducing monotone colouring, Versace opened the show with androgynous tailored suits. The collection drew inspiration from the iconic emblem, which focused on the rectangular pattern to form the design. Lar...
Fall 2014 Haute Couture: Atelier Versace
Here came the girls at Atelier Versace in Paris on the first day of Fall 2014’s parade of haute couture creations. In an ideal world if there was anyone who could fly the flag for la femme, now that the boys ha...
Milan Menswear SS15: Versace
Versace maketh the man, and what a mighty good man they make. Undeniably, the thaumaturgy behind their menswear offerings is due to the pleasure Donatella takes in sculpting Hercules incarnate. This season was ...
The stiletto
The story of the stiletto began at the dawn of a new world. The Second World The Second World War had ended and the protocols of tradition were deemed irrelevant. In an effort to restore the pre-WW2 s...
MFW AW14: Versace
On Friday night in Milan, Versace comrades in arms took their place on the stately catwalk, advancing from Donatella’s palatial kingdom behind ornate baroque gates, opened not by Saint Peter, but by a pair of s...
Urban Cowboy Powerplay at Versace Menswear AW14
“Passion and love and sex and money – violence, religion, injustice and death,” the epithets stipulated by the Pet Shop Boys in 1986’s Paninaro, pertaining to the archetypal Italian paninaro boy of the decade. ...
PFW AW13: Atelier Versace Couture Fall
Naomi Campbell dashingly opened the Atelier Versace catwalk show in Paris – sleek and mature, a powerful specimen of a woman in a powerfully executed, racy black mini.
The collection featured dyed animal ski...