Diane von Furstenberg: Ready-to-wear AW17
Consider this the spirit of Diane von Furstenberg channeled through the mind of Jonathan Saunders. Not that we mean to suggest that Diane has gone anywhere, heaven forbid – she was here this...
Consider this the spirit of Diane von Furstenberg channeled through the mind of Jonathan Saunders. Not that we mean to suggest that Diane has gone anywhere, heaven forbid – she was here this...
Sat here in freezing London, knowing full well that these tundra-like conditions will probably continue for at least another month, Tommy Hilfiger’s latest TommyXGigi collaborative collection...
Has the Gucci lady crossed the final frontier of all female fears and outed herself as a cat lady? There were a lot of cats here. Both in big cat form, adorning a whole array of sweaters, skirts and...
“There is so much negativity in the world, right now,” said Nicola Formichetti. “We wanted to create an optimistic movement that starts with the clothes, and makes a strong statement without...
Would it be wrong to say that there’s something of the muumuu about this? Okay, not muumuu in the strictest sense, as this was not floral, nor dropped in the shoulders, nor reserved only for...
There’s something nice about the way that Azzedine Alaïa marches to the beat of his own drum rather than chase the the traditional fashion circus. He shows only when he’s ready, a small...
The Miu Miu crew took a trip to the beach. Well, it is Spring Summer. And so to the beach we went. Around us shapes decorated the plywood walls, a burnt orange circle burned bright and hot like the...
Imagine a dystopian future where everyone is dressed in Louis Vuitton. It’s dark. There are sequins. It’s filtered through an eighties prism. Let’s call it a movie prism where the heroine from...
‘Tis the final day of fashion month so naturally we’re dreaming of holidays. Last season Giambattista Valli took us to the snowy mountains of the Swiss Alps. This season, we’re in...
Welcome to the future. Today in the Grand Palais, we sat in Data Centre Chanel. Around us lights flickered, wires intertwined, screens rapidly downloaded codes and the sound of the future vibrated....
Intellectual therefore erotic. Denim, denim, denim. Against the empire of signs. Hysterically normal. Tone on tone on tone. Camouflaged by normality. Naively sexy. These aren’t just random words...
Madame Rykiel. However, this show wasn’t a sad affair, but a reason to celebrate everything that made her the classy woman and designer we all knew and loved. Her documentary played on screens as...
Would it be wrong to call these a glamorous set of lady car mechanics? This was a conclusion we came to at Hermes’ SS17 show, mainly on account of that boiler suit, a garment that appeared in...
Girls were served smoking hot and fresh out of Giambattista Valli’s kitchen today in a flirty array of wears, sometimes barely wearing any wears at all. It was this genius showing of skin that...
“Game-changers that were iconic in what they did.” That was the Sacai SS17 inspiration, Chitose Abe told us backstage after the show. And she chose some good ones. The show began with a...
“A punk idea of humanism”. Well thats what the press notes say, to which we can only say, punk for all… give me the drugs. But joking aside, this is actually a new era for Valentino. Like an...
The Rosatis know leather. More importantly, they know how to work with it. Which is exactly why Ferraro Rosati founded DROMe in 2008, with daughter Marianna Rosati at the design helm- to explore the...
To quote from the hymn sheet of Talking Heads… ”Psycho Killer. Qu’est-ce que c’est? Fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-far…” Not that Balenciaga have decided to base their...
What better way to spend a Sunday evening than enjoying the latest fashions from the house of Givenchy? Beats watching Corrie. This was, as you may have seen, an outdoor show, which meant it was best...
“It’s not what you buy, it’s the way you wear it,” Roland Mouret told us backstage after his Spring Summer show. True dat. But we wouldn’t mind buying a little Roland Mouret SS17. Or a...
The press notes for Phoebe Philo’s SS17 outing for Céline read only “I want to show that our bodies are bound to the world, whether we like it or not”, which were, in fact, not her own, but...
The next line is one we’ve probably busted out more than once, but it’s been a while since we last used it, and never has it been more apt that when applied to Acne Studios’ SS17 collection....
This was clothing suitable for those of you with personal space issues. Mainly because it was all fucking huge. Noone’s coming close to you in that. Wide load fashion. Or, in more eloquent...
To get to this disco, you must follow the path of the gold stardust. It was infused into each piece of the collection and covered the floor that led the way, like a yellow brick road clouded with a...
Does anyone else remember Electric Ballroom in Camden? The goth night in the mid nineties, where all the goths gathered for a night of loosing themselves to the sound of something industrial and...
“It was paradise birds on acid,” Haider Ackermann told us backstage after the peculiarly beautifully show. “Chaos. But a controlled chaos.” Yes, it was a calm, ordered chaos....
Yohji Yamamoto was strappy. Could we call it strapping, even? By which we mean, simply, that there were lots of straps on it. Straps are nice aren’t they? It’s reassuring to be strapped in. And...
There’s a bit of a shoulder situation going on in Lutz Huelle’s SS17 collection. A bit might actually be an understatement. There’s some shoulder going on and it’s a statement making...
We should all be feminists. That was the message of Maria Chiuri Grazia’s debut outing for the house of Christian Dior. A message that was, handily, also printed upon a t-shirt, just in case you...
Graphic silhouettes, angular lines and geometric prints were beautifully softened with use of slouchy pleated pieces and clever use of colour – tones of powdery pinks, pale beige and minty...
“Luke, I am you father”. Okay, so maybe not. But that first look at Loewe’s SS17 show today – that cream coloured smock thing with big puffy sleeves for some reason brings to...
Jun Takahashi is feeling the jazzy vibes at Undercover SS17. Quite literally. So apparent, it was more a tribute to jazz. We sat in Hotel Salomon de Rothschild, under chandeliers as Gershwin’s...
Hussein Chalayan is like a mad scientist. And he’s been in his lab, creating the future. An army of Chalayans, genetically engineered humans. Their clothing emblematic of their station in life,...
Isabel Marant’s cult are the “you can’t sit with us” type of girls. Anna Ewers, Cat McNeil and Julia Nobis type boss ass bitches. They don’t look rough and tough....
Rick Owens was Grecian in drape. There was a regal element to it in the colour and shape, the abundance of fabric suggesting wealth. It feels almost monastic. Can we say it’s like they are being...
If you’ve read the press notes, you’ll probably find that what we’re about to say has little to do with them, but then we didn’t read then, because we were far too busy using...
FUTURE SEX SPORT. These were notes we scribbled down as we watched Julien Dossena’s really rather fabulous spring offering for Paco Rabanne yesterday. Future and sex mostly because they were...
Ann Demeulemeester’s coven was out to play. Coven of the night. Leonard Cohen’s voice vibrated though the room, “Magnified, sanctified, be thy holy name, Vilified, crucified, in the human...
“It’s kind of an innocent sexiness,” Clare Waight Keller told us backstage after the Chloé Spring Summer 2017 show. The perfect summation of the collection. The Chloé girl usually...
“I don’t care. I am who I am, take me as I am,” Johanna Senyk told us backstage at Wanda Nylon. You tell ’em. Woman in fabric. That was the motto for Spring Summer 2017....
Rihanna. Riri. Badgal Riri. And now, Fenty. Well, kind of, because Fenty is, and has always been, for that matter, Rihanna’s surname, and is now her chosen moniker in her collaboration with Puma,...
As you might know, we fashion folk are often found out and about cloaked in various shades of black. A ‘pop of colour’ usually comes in the form of navy. “I don’t do colour!” Phoebe often...
Could this be one of our favourite shows of the season? Oui oui. Bouchra Jarrar’s Lanvin woman was bathed in splendour. In Summer 2017 we will be feeling sensual. A little bit mysterious....
This season the Maison Margiela girls were out of this world. Alien. Not the Ridley Scott kind, but beautiful creatures from outer space who have dropped into our world and want to learn our ways....
Bonjour gay Paree. The last leg of our fashion marathon. And what better way to open than with a quintessentially French collection from Jacquemus? For SS17 Simon Porte took us on a journey to the...
This was sort of 1960s, or should we say, 1960s through the filter of 2030. To which I originally wrote 2020 because in my head, that was a far off and distant date, but is actually only 3 years...
Brand spanking new. Saint Laurent, that is. Or should we say YSL? Because the Y was back, as we learnt courtesy of the large neon light outside of the venue. Anyway, by brand spanking new we are not...
Olivier Theyskens is back. Back in black, to quote from the AC/DC song sheet. For his return was black. And strict. Reminiscent of an English governess, or if you want a better visual, Nicole Kidman...
Frozen. Flowers, suspended in giant cubes of ice sat isolated on the runway, lit up, like portals to another universe. Melting, the water formed small puddles as the sound of rain trickled,...
There’s a stripe love-in happening next season. And nowhere was this more apparent than at Marco de Vincenzo. But these aren’t your usual, classic, run-of-the-mill stripes. This is an elevated...