In recent seasons, Marc Jacobs has treated his catwalk collections as an ongoing study of extreme silhouette. In the designer’s hands, clothes balloon into exaggerated proportions, architectural in form, giving the familiar a lashing of theatrical pomp.

“Isaac Mizrahi is a fashion designer.” That statement opens the 1995 fashion documentary Unzipped, a legendary film in its genre that chronicles the fabulously chaotic production of Mizrahi’s AW94 collection and New York Fashion Week show. As it turns out, that description may have been a bit reductive.

We call it a fashion show, but the Victoria’s Secret show really does transcend so many sectors of culture. That’s why, whenever I was thinking and dreaming about it, I wanted it to feel like a spectacle, to cut through culture, grab people’s attention and create dialogue and discourse. It

La Watchparty is the community-built, fashion-first phenomenon that’s becoming the most democratic event of fashion month.

“Pass our Nats by in Golden Square and you’re bound to mistake her for a chain-smoking Michelle Williams. For real. They have the exact same porcelain features and pissed-off expression.” So said Vincent Levy of his 10 colleague, the inimitable Natalie Dembinska, who died of cancer in September 2024.

When Roland Mouret, beams onto my screen he is video-calling in from his art studio in Farringdon, central London. A little late, he apologises profusely. A warm and fuzzy presence, he’s wearing a paint-splattered jacket and sporting a trimmed beard. He’s, well, not what I expected.