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...
PFW SS15: Stella McCartney
On the seventh day of PFW Stella McCartney presented her SS14 womenswear collection which introduced a laid-back comfort, sensuality and summery air.
Being true to the sportswear-inspired philosophy of her d...
PFW SS15: Chloé
Chloé took summer frills to the fore in Paris with the type of flourishing textures that Milan couldn’t get enough of this season. We are of course referring to the spirit of the seventies that has been doing i...
PFW SS15: Akris
Akris is the one brand that can steep its designs in a bit of the theatric sass that fashion appears to be snubbing at the moment, while keeping it tethered to high-quality, thought-through oh-so wearable desig...
PFW SS15: Jean Paul Gaultier
Last night saw the swansong of a decade in Paris when the French wonder jester of fashion bid a moving farewell to ready-to-wear with all of the incroyable rumpus the designer has single-handedly purveyed since...
PFW SS15: Mugler
The once indomitable House of Mugler has taken its fair share of knocks in recent years while it’s been dragged back and forth through the brand identity crisis bush. It's not so much a matter of dissociative i...
PFW SS15: Issey Miyake
Issey Miyake is one of those houses that quietly smiles to itself while weaving away dreams of its own fancy and remaining absolutely unphased by passing trends and fickle social mores. The house has always ref...
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...
PFW SS15: Irfé
Surplus usually brings to mind one’s hoary leftovers, at Irfe this season in Paris, think again. Maison Irfe, one of France’s oldest couture houses to be making brand new waves, made a statement battle hymn of ...
PFW SS15: Yohji Yamamoto
For a designer who has always privileged scaling back the extroverted above mainstream fashion’s flagrant show-pieces tailored for the haut monde, Yohji Yamamoto was the designer who put on the most exaggerated...
PFW SS15: Loewe
Loewe did their thing superbly this season, with a little help from Irish designer J.W. Anderson, that’s right, London’s androgyny advocating darling of Dalston. Taking summer's motif straight from the cutting ...
PFW SS15: Nina Ricci
Nina Ricci is a house that puts us in a very content place for a brief moment before the PFW schedule rolls on, whilst they may always remain “safe”, they remain time-honoured, mature and luxuriate their brand ...
PFW SS15: Lanvin
Lanvin is the one French fashion institution that puts on the kind of show that really makes all the excitement centred around Paris on the last international stop-off SS15 will be making for the season really ...
PFW SS15: Roland Mouret
On the surface, Roland Mouret upheld his nouveau-Parisienne chic ideal for another season in Paris today. Though this isn’t just any other season, this year has seen Mouret’s name and eminence in fashion commer...
PFW SS15: Dries Van Noten
While we have generally seen almost analogous trends threading through each fashion capital so far this season, in Paris, designers are doing things their way. It was left to Dries Van Noten to do things his ow...
PFW SS15: Alexis Mabille
Alexis Mabille is a designer that, to the best of his ability, is able to restore order to a season in the fashion calendar when certain elements of fashion week sometimes are a little too off the wall for thei...
PFW SS15: Balenciaga
Alexander Wang is proving his worth as creative director of Balenciaga sequentially by sending out the kind of clothing one expects from Paris – dressy, innovative and chic. Quite how he has the time to tick al...
MFW SS15: Trussardi
Trussardi has designed, as always, its SS collection for the real woman, a woman who knows her higher self can be manifested most pertinently through statement clothing. She knows that even more than this, it d...
MFW SS15: Dolce & Gabbana
Dolce and Gabbana snuck onto the MFW schedule today in a dramatic move that would put the grandest of prima donnas to shame, because, well, they are a duo that know a thing or two about making an entrance. In t...
MFW SS15: Roberto Cavalli
In many ways euro-extraordinaire Roberto Cavalli should be in his element in SS, but in some ways, the winter months don’t do him so wrong either. This season, the designer himself did no wrong for his gutsy ga...
MFW SS15: Giorgio Armani
By now, we know that we can always count on Giorgio Armani to deliver. Speaking of counting, we practically count our blessings every day that he is still powering ahead with his vision of what fashion can be, ...