VIKTOR & ROLF: HAUTE COUTURE AW15
When does fashion become art? How about when you put it in a frame and hang it on a wall? Or even a model. That was the conceit behind Viktor & Rolf’s latest jape, crashing their models’...
When does fashion become art? How about when you put it in a frame and hang it on a wall? Or even a model. That was the conceit behind Viktor & Rolf’s latest jape, crashing their models’...
Jean Paul Gaultier is a French national treasure. The press Français, indeed, were out in force and applauding forcefully, in Gaultier’s latest ode to… well, France. This time it was le style...
What do a paint-splattered inside-out coat, a roll of spangled AstroTurf, and a potato sack all have in common? They all wrapped mod bods at John Galliano’s stellar sophomore offering for...
Elie Saab dedicated his show to his wife Claudine, and took inspiration from her golden wedding dress – a Klimt-ean backdrop of gilt and a cavalcade of princesses, smothered in exquisite...
Pink, Steven Tyler once said, is my favourite colour. He could have been speaking for Giorgio Armani, who dedicated his autumn/winter Armani Privé show to it. There was a bit of blue too; and...
Kendall in Coco – the fitting end to a Chanel show whose photo op-packed set was easily the most Instagrammed since… well, the last Chanel show. We were in Karl’s Kasino this time...
What’s couture all about? Big dresses, and satisfying clients. Giambattista Valli is good at both. Ladies in his lavish cocktail dresses say front row salivating over more of the same, in...
Flemish masters and futurism. Not a mix you hear all the time – even in fashion, that lives an X meeting a Y. But Raf Simons’ installation at Christian Dior some three years hence was a...
This season, Donatella says, the Versace woman is softer. She smothered her catwalk with a million orchids (okay, 25,000, but who’s counting?). And tangled flowers in her models’ hair...