MFW SS15: Bottega Veneta
Bottega Veneta has an outstanding class that brings it to the forefront of the Milan schedule, whatever the season and whatever direction Tomas Maier takes. For he is a designer that shrugs off anything he does...
MFW SS15: Tod’s
Tod’s have given us one of the most formulaic collections in the brief history of MFW SS15 so far, that formula being leather and that formula thriving. For instance, in every form you can possibly imagine, lea...
MFW SS15: Missoni
Missoni pulled out all the statement stops this season, not surprising since they are a statement family. So it was up to the family with the timeless eye for patterned beauty to give is something vivacious for...
MFW SS15: Ports 1961
Ports 1961 have done something quite fabulous in Milan this season, invoked a sense of power within their woman while lacing her in the limpest of fabrics. This skilful triumph is all down to Canadian-born crea...
MFW SS15: Etro
There’s been ‘70s revivals in fashion before, but never have they been so concentrated on high-end catwalks and never have they been crammed in to the first two and a half days of MFW. You’ve got to hand it to ...
MFW SS15: Dsquared2
Dean and Dan Caten’s Dsquared2 follies is something we tune in to every season just to see where their minds have taken them. It’s something we just can’t avoid. Prone to approaching each season with a utterly ...
MFW SS15: Fausto Puglisi
Fausto Puglisi is a master styliste of short-skirted sex appeal, and what appeals to him more than anything is nostalgia. Not something that many others like to get hung up on, Fausto knows this, but through th...
MFW SS15: Alberta Ferretti
Alberta Ferretti has done what many designers in Milan this season are doing to counterbalance worldwide fashion tastes with euro-glam, looking to soulful 1970s Bohemia for free-spirited luxe. Pushing the stock...
LFW SS15: David Koma
Drafting the new blueprint for the Mugler woman has made David Koma a little bit more thoughtful about re-aligning the Koma woman in comparison. This made for quite an SS15 show. One of London's only designers ...
LFW SS15: Issa
It’s truly lovely when you happen to pick up the elated sound of cheers backstage once each model has done their turn on the catwalk and even before the models get in line for their final walkout. That happened...
LFW SS15: Matthew Williamson
Matthew Williamson did what he knows best this season, which is giving us his best – the work that made him such a fashion mainstay in London and also famous across the UK. Glam was what he traded in this SS15,...
LFW SS15: Holly Fulton
Holly Fulton is the archetypal LFW designer her designs practically the stuff of street style dreams, so crisp, so full of character and so bang on London-centric trend. As the saying goes, if it ain’t broke d...
LFW SS15: Fyodor Golan
The aggressive chiptune that demanded silence at the beginning of Fyodor Golan’s SS15 show in the graffiti-ed up Waterloo Vaults was Golan’s second narrative build-up, following said “street” art. Soon after th...
LFW SS15: Jasper Conran
The epitome of the designer who is always going to score big in London’s fashion scene, Jasper Conran knows how do LFW prestige with his faultless designs. With quality design in his blood and an eye for aesthe...
LFW SS15: Jamie Wei Huang
LFW’s resident fashion brutalist and master of shock appeal, without being too brazen, is increasingly becoming one of the highlights of London’s Fashion Scout division. The scramble to secure a seat, or someth...
LFW SS15: Jean-Pierre Braganza
“A contemplation of Deroit’s unique decay” read Jean Pierre Braganza’s testimonial for SS15, a perfect example of London’s design penchant for pushing the envelope with provocative stimuli, if ever there was on...
NYFW SS15: Prabal Gurung
The beginning looks at Prabal Gurung’s SS15 show were very ‘sea froth’, with billowing waist sashes and anemone-like stitching exuding gently from sheer, gauzy garments and sheaths with billowing sleeves. The e...
NYFW SS15: J. Crew
Creative Director Jenna Lyons kept J. Crew’s SS15 collection in line with what it is that makes us love J. Crew in the first place — that boyish, yet utterly womanly, professional-meets-playtime, “casual chic” ...
NYFW SS15: MM6 Maison Martin Margiela
Japanese futurism meets Southwest classic ropers’ wear at the MM6 Maison Martin Margiela show. A silken jumpsuits belted with denim preceded looks more full-frontal cowgirl chic, like leather chaps with a linge...
NYFW SS15: Derek Lam
Patchwork leather, flared pants, wing collars, and mauve, teal, and retro brown call straightforward and direct attention to the 1970s, the era in which womenswear shamelessly and nonchalantly fell straight and...
NYFW SS15: Peter Som
One prominent feature of Peter Som’s SS15 collection was a fabulously original forest green and white rose print pattern. There was something eerily mythic and anthropomorphic about the roses, twisted and orien...