Valentino: Couture AW19
Pierpaolo Piccioli refreshes the parts other designers cannot reach. His Maison Valentino shows are not just fashion happenings but emotional moments. He doesn’t just make clothes but manages to...
Pierpaolo Piccioli refreshes the parts other designers cannot reach. His Maison Valentino shows are not just fashion happenings but emotional moments. He doesn’t just make clothes but manages to...
“I’m dead, I’m dead, I’m dead” boomed the Bauhaus track about Bella Lugosi (R.I.P). The lyrics could have been a Maison Margiela show review, (delivered by a ssuperfanin a full look, with...
“I wanted to take it up a notch” said Clare Waight Keller after her sensational Givenchy show. Her intention? “To push it to something that has more theatre.” That she did, titling the show...
Gypsy skirts, fondant tulle rainbows and playful transparencies – Giorgio Armani surprised his audience with a folksy themed Armani Prive show. The designer channeled pure prettiness into the...
A new era crystallised at the house of Chanel with the first couture show by Virginie Viard inside the Grand Palais, she built a triple story, circular library stacked with encyclopaedic volumes. It...
It was 30 Avenue Montaigne but not as we know it. The famous Dior staircase was transformed into a dark forest, thick with grey roots and trunks twisting up to the historic ateliers above. The...
Daniel Roseberry is a poetic soul. The new designer at Schiaparelli believes modern couture should be an artistic endeavour governed by the uninhibited creativity of a child. So said the charming...