Ralph Lauren: Ready-to-Wear AW18
Half a century of sheer fabulosity. That was the celebratory point last night at the Ralph Lauren show where the brand (and the man behind it) honoured the 50th anniversary of classic Americana...
Half a century of sheer fabulosity. That was the celebratory point last night at the Ralph Lauren show where the brand (and the man behind it) honoured the 50th anniversary of classic Americana...
A new fashion alphabet was written at Miu Miu today. And it kicked off with A for Attitude. Yes this Miu Miu girl suffers no fools, she’s outspoken, fearless and I for Independent. She has the G...
In the dead of the night (well, 6.30pm in Paris) the ladies of Louis Vuitton came out from their lair into the Musee Du Louvre’s courtyard, spotlit. The past was meeting the future, quite...
Into the Chanel twilight zone. The Grand Palais was turned into a forest, calm and misty. Autumn leaves covered the floor and mossy trees stood tall. Well, Karl Lagerfeld can magic up anything. It...
Sarah Burton dived deep inside a metamorphosis. This was an enhanced exploration of transformation, each piece morphed into the next. An evolution. It felt like we were in the promised land, birds...
“Romanticism is strength. It places sensibility before rationality, authenticity, before stereotypes.” said the press notes Valentino. Yes, who wants to be reasonable when one could be...
Strike a pose in your Thom Browne. That was the motto as Madonna’s ‘Vogue’ played. We were looking at girls, hair slicked static upwards and out in their ballooning grey pants and camel coats...
A chilling echo of wind, the piercing sound of violins. This was the opening to Clare Waight Keller’s Givenchy Autumn/ Winter 18 Night Noir. The sound of trains passing, and a very Stranger...
What’s not to love about an enormous cashmere and leather blanket bag slung over the shoulder. We would like to cocoon inside this… and quite rightly we were contemplating cocooning as this...
Here is where we are at: “Many things in the world have not been named; and many things, even if they have been named, have never been described. One of these is the sensibility – unmistakably...
“When in doubt: Dress up! One should never see the brain working in what you wear and one dresses in order to be eventually naked… I still think to this day that you are the best dressed woman in...
No Theme. This was the Junya Watanabe Autumn/ Winter 18 collection. It was pulled back, easier, but with all that sneaky Watanabe magic in the works. “I believe my work is to express whatever I...
In a cloud of smoke inside the Chaillot – Theatre National de la Danse, Haider Ackermann presented a Vanishing Act. Well, not literally. These clothes were very much alive, pulsating with...
Silent Energy, was the title of Issey Miyake’s Autumn/ Winter ’18 collection. Our kind of energy. It buzzed through this collection, seeping into each piece, Yoshiyuki Miyamae’s winter...
This was not for mere mortals. We’re calling it ‘The Shining.’ All that spine chilling silver and glistening blackness underneath glittering chandeliers. Olivier...
“We are infinite.” Yes because Jun Takahashi of Undercover knows this kind of thing. And so he knows how to deliver that eternally exquisite street vibe with total class. We loved the Stranger...
Jonathan Anderson‘s collections for Loewe are an adventure. There’s a nobility and a strength of purpose in what he does. The best clothes make us think. We like a challenge and we like to be...
Paco Rabanne AW18 has got a lot going on. So does everyone. Julien Dossena knows this and so he celebrates it. This was a collection championing individuality, both in the women and the pieces. Le...
Move bish, get out the way. Ann Demeulemeester’s army is coming, hard and fast. Sebastien Meunier did not veer from the true Demeulemeester deep-into-the-night darkness for this collection....
Welcome to Off-White‘s “West Village.” Virgil Abloh‘s girl is soul cycling on weekdays and riding horses in Westchester on the weekend. Oh, the NYC city girl life. For all that sneaker...
Baubles, bangles and beads sung by Marlene Dietrich played throatily, smouldering (a song originally by ole blue eyes Sinatra) and so from the very first exit we fell in love and swooned all the way...
As the snow falls on an icy Paris, the fashion flock circle the city to trying to find new information for Autumn/ Winter 18. A non-referenced revolution of information. Enter Glenn Martens, now...
Test one, two. Chloé is in the building. The Maison de la Radio building. Natacha Ramsay-Levi was getting a signal. “Of course there is no fashion that can be without reflecting the zeitgest,...
We’re calling it art rock. Why? Because we loved the Deep Purple Child in Time ten minute sound track that played out the entire collection. While that nods to the early seventies this collection...
John Galliano was flipping it and reversing it for Maison Margiela Autumn/ Winter 18. “Dressing in reverse,” he called it. Expect the unexpected. Although we always do when it comes to...
In the glow of the glittering Eiffel Tower the next chapter of Anthony Vaccarello’s Saint Laurent played out something like this: Hot and heavy. Hard and fast. Dark with lots of black...
Milan has been awash with inclusiveness, championing causes and enlightenment. At MSGM it was all about love. A love for Milano in particular. Massimo Giorgetti explained “It’s the right...
Dolce & Gabbana was a Fashion Devotion. Loyal to looking good. It was church-like, the words written over the doors at the end of the runway and cherubs looking so sweet. Here to worship...
The Emporio Armani girl came to play ‘tonight’, in a show entitled ‘Post Meridiem’. She brought the sass, a whole lotta love and some damn good looks. “I enjoy watching people, bringing...
Marni Autumn/ Winter 18 was a kick ass clash of the past and the future. “It’s a message about a plurality of women and people and about going back to human kindness and actually that plurality...
They called the collection A Human Future and with all the softness, airiness, lightness and poetry in these pieces, it touched our cold hearts. This was the finest comfort dressing. Were the models...
Antonio Berardi is on fire. Hawt. Searing. Lighting up the room. This was non-traditional Berardi, out of his British comfort zone and into Milan. Personal. His signature but with a newness. An...
Mr Armani is one of the masters. He watches, he listens and he creates relevant clothes for the most discerning women. “I’ve always seen my work as a reaction to the times we live,...
This was Roberto Cavalli after dark. A Cavalli dreamscape. Mr Paul Surridge took it to a new level of extra, and boy do we love to be extravagant. Signature animal prints charged through the...
Where to go after last season’s epic fashion moment? Va va voom! The Clans. Versace royalty. Oh yeah, Donatella Versace’s girls were rocking the boundaries. Pale Honey’s ‘Golden’...
Into the neon-rific Pradasphere… This felt like Prada heaven looking out from up high in official Prada headquarters, the Fondazione Prada complex tower. Spiritual. Cosmic, brilliant neon signs...
God she’s good. Erika Cavallini gives all woman. She knows what we want, a serious take on slouchy, three parts sensual and some parts gamine. As we all know, she worked with Martin Margiela way...
We love a morning at the Fendi show, we are always well fed by fabulous fashun. This was not a snack however, this was a full course Fendi meal. There was a quiet strength in this lot, “Strong...
On a not so ordinary evening in Milan, we feasted our eyes on an intergalatic Moschino fashion show (after feasting on the invitation). We were seeing through Jeremy Scott’s Moschino Eyes....
Majorettes get in line, this one’s for you. No 21 Autumn/ Winter 2018 was all about women who put on a show every day. They ain’t no diva, they’re just oozing with casual fabulousness. “I...
We’re not in the Gucci garden anymore… Under fluorescent lights, sterilised green walls, the monotonous zombie-like beeping of a heart rate monitor echoed. And so we found ourselves in an...
Roksanda Ilinčić knows how to take us into a state of total joy. She balances colour in a way we never knew we needed, creating a heavenly paradise that blow our mind. For Autumn/ Winter 18 she...
For their Autumn/ Winter 2018 outing, Teatum Jones drew on the notion of Global Womanhood, women who embody their tenets of boldness, confidence, creativity and intelligence, women from different...
This afternoon’s proceedings at Richard Quinn got off to the most regal of starts courtesy of the attendance of Her Majesty The Queen – yes, THE ACTUAL QUEEN dropped in to see what all...
A morning at the museum. Erdem shut the National Portrait Gallery down to show off his AW18 collection. Into the Jazz age he dived, the books on seats revealing photographs of Nancy Cunard and Adele...
Here we are now Nicopanda, entertain us. This was a look into Nicola Formichetti‘s top rated playlist. Forget the teens, this was ‘Smells like Queens Spirit’. He knows how to have fun and...
The Christopher Kane girl is getting serious. This season she has grown up, she’s wiser, calculated and disruptive. We like her already. We knew we would. It began with the illustrated guide to...
In case anyone was questioning whether we were power women, Marques’Almeida have spelt it out, quite literally. For their AW18 collection Marta Marques and Paulo Almeida were fuelled by their...
For their AW18 show, Peter Pilotto served up their own unique cuisine of period chic to guests sat round tables at West London’s prestigious gent’s club, Tramp. You’d most likely...
Ashish strikes again, all that multicoloured glittery dreamland magic. A little bit of reminiscing to his Indian roots and a high key dig at American consumerism was on the agenda. And so he did what...