Tory Burch: Ready-To-Wear AW19
Back to Black Mountain. Tory Burch always takes us on a journey, whether it’s Morocco or south of France – her woman is not sitting still. For AW19, she looks to Black Mountain College in North...
Back to Black Mountain. Tory Burch always takes us on a journey, whether it’s Morocco or south of France – her woman is not sitting still. For AW19, she looks to Black Mountain College in North...
The invite said breakfast at #RalphsCafe and knowing Mr Lauren, you know this was going to be a good spread in the most stunning surroundings. Well, the man did not disappoint, that’s for sure....
Right on Halloween, when ghosts get a free pass and witches throw coven feasts, the spookiest designer out there threw a spectacle of her own. For SS19, the Turkish-born high priestess of the London...
Around a historic courtyard within the Louvre, snaked a series of stark glass tunnels. It was as if some secret agency had constructed a secret facility in the most hallowed crucible of French...
Why is the Miu Miu girl one of our favourite characters in fashion? Firstly, she’s got great taste in music (for SS19 she’s looping Prince’s beautifully melancholic acoustic version of Purple...
Stepping into a Chanel show is like entering a parallel universe. The real world is immediately forgotten inside the Coco dimension. This season we worm-holed to the perfect beach setting complete...
Emotion: It’s something Sarah Burton infuses into her work and is the very fragrance of the Alexander McQueen world. This is a brand with a beating heart. It’s also a brand that tells stories....
Chitose Abe’s immaculate technical skills are world-known. The way she designs clothes is on a completely different level, with the skilful sensibility for deconstruction that most designers can...
Stella McCartney is riding high. Her ethical, sustainable take on fashion is finally leading the mainstream conversation and her woman friendly aesthetic is very much in vogue. Her show underlined...
A laser beam of light lit the way into the Givenchy where Clare Waight Keller focused in on her vision for the house. For those who thought gender fluidity was a 21st century concept, she offered as...
Some people don’t just fly, they soar. Pierpaolo Piccioli is one of them. His work at Valentino has reached such heady heights that the audience comes with the expectation of being transported to...
Join us, Thom Browne fans as we enter a surrealist world of double-dropped acid tabs at the seaside. It’s in this mind-bending realm where face masks of ice cream cones are worn with immaculately...
IRL? At Balenciaga, we stepped into The Matrix. This show was a total immersion experience, which took place inside a vast tunnel entirely lined with LED screens. The audience sat inside an...
For you and me, for the whole family – it’s Sonia Rykiel! A sense of celebration took over at the Sonia Rykiel SS19 show. A celebration of life, of the finale coming from the brand’s 50th...
Off to the races at Longchamp we went to see fashion’s most thoroughbred brand. Hermés, with its horsey heritage was in its element. The models walked a sand runway against a huge mirrored bank...
It was an essay to the expectant mother. A soft and padded cotton lozenge-shaped form was strapped on to a model’s tummy and hidden under a jumpsuit. The jumpsuit was zipped open on the tummy...
In a parking garage in northern Paris the Vivienne westwood crew was hard at it. Gary Card, the ace set designer and his team carried on scrunching and fixing swathes of paper to the set as the...
A symphony in cellophane and other materials: Noir designer Kei Ninomiya manoeuvred and twisted and folded all kinds of plastics and Polythene into clear duster coats and traced around the seams of a...
In a sea of sportswear and casual dressing, there is Haider Ackermann. He stands for cut, purity of line and a tailored sensibility. He also shows his women’s and men’s line together...
After Westwood there’s?… Nothing? There’s Junya! There’s the whole Comme family but there is especially Junya. This morning in Paris, the 57-year-old Watanabe took shears to a worker’s...
Photographs by Jason Lloyd-Evans....
A dark kind of romance, almost vampiric in its core. In 20 years he’s been showing collections, Olivier Theyskens has establishes his own aesthetic quite clearly. When you see a dress coming down...
It was a glimpse inside the artist’s studio at Issey Miyake. Had designer Yoshiyuki Miyamae channelled a painter who’d accidentally brushed against one of her canvases? The digitally printed...
What does the Balmain girl pack for a saucy weekend in Paris? It ain’t a French maid outfit. This lady is all about a pagoda shoulder jacket, disco snoods, thigh-high boots, and see-thru onesies...
You don’t always need Spice Girls to bring out the best of female power. Sometimes, it’s enough to have Antonio Berardi. For his SS19 collection, our fave Italian decided to skip on the...
Opened in 1958, the Maison de L’Unesco in Paris, was created as a centre to educate visitors on culture and art and to serve as an arts centre for the city. The listed building was a fitting home...
Virgil Abloh doesn’t so much put on fashion shows as stage multi-dimensional happenings. What goes on the runway is only one part of the Off White experience. This label has life beyond the...
If you’re looking for a chic outfit for next year’s Burning Man, go to Rick Owens. A flaming pyramid formed the centre piece of his catwalk and the models stormed around it as if they were in a...
Oh, Glenn Martens… Nothing makes us happy like some smart, shoppable and all-round fabulous fashions. Cue Y/Project SS19. There’s the first ever Y/Project bag line, a pair of sunglasses in collab...
When a designer describes a “world traveller” as the focus of their collection, we instantly roll our eyes. But when a designer creates what Julien Dossena just did for Paco Rabanne, we stand up...
What are you to do if the fabric at the core of your brand, which was once a symbol of technology and progress, is now deemed a polluting pariah? That’s the dilemma faced by the Courréges Artistic...
This Dries Van Noten show was an essay in modern dressing. All the contemporary fashion commandments were there. Thou shalt have Practicality: Dries obliged with elevated workwear and practical...
50 Shades of Camel… That’s the unofficial title we here at Ten Towers gave the latest Agnona collection. For SS19, the brand’s artistic director Simon Holloway looked at all the ways chic women...
Big screens lined the Maison Margiela catwalk showing the houses new Mutiny fragrance campaign. In it, trailblazers like Sasha Lane, Ten cover queen Teddy Quinlivan and Willow Smith talked...
In the nine months he’s been behind the helm, Casey Cadwallader shifted Mugler into a new direction, without losing the essence of the name. And for SS19, his unique vision has finally stepped onto...
It was the violet hour in Paris when day fades to dusk and the Eiffel Tower twinkles in a dazzling hourly ritual. That signalled the start of the YSL show, held (literally) on top of the Trocadero...
There was a moment in time, perhaps a few years ago, when “Parisian chic” was the most valuable currency in fashion. Every other street style pic was a denim + white shirt + navy blazer look. A...
For one season and one season only, Alessandro Michele is deporting Gucci from Milan to Paris to show the SS19 collection there. The time is 6.30 GMT and the place is Théâtre Le Palace. Watch it...
It was a festival of culture at the Koché SS19 show as the Parisian brand transported us all around the globe, giving us the experience of the countries that she had visited on the lead up to the...
And so to Longchamp racecourse for the Dior show, held in a vast box emblazoned with quotes from the great women of 20th Century dance. “Dance is the movement of the universe concentrated...
If these wall could speak…. For one night only, Italian mega brand Gucci transplanted itself from Milan to Paris. Guests filed into the famous Le Palace venue. These days its a theatre but...
One of the best things about Paris Fashion Week is seeing new brands emerge. Marine Serre, already an LVMH prize winner and causing a stir at Matches Fashion, has a big vision for her label. On a...
“Dream! Dream! Dream!” urged Massimo Giorgetti via Instagram ahead of his today’s show for MSGM. And so we dreamt, about a land far, far away where flowers are in bloom all-year...
Ready, set, go! The races are off and so is Iceberg SS19. After a stellar comeback and the first stop on the Iceberg world tour at London Fashion Week Men’s back in June, James Long London brought...
When it comes to casting, Dolce and Gabbana ain’t fooling around. Monica Bellucci, Carla Bruni, Isabella Rossellini, Ashley Graham, Karen Elson… Oh, the list goes on and on and on. Since their...
No one does classy like Giorgio Armani. After a stellar spectacle featuring Robbie Williams in a sequinned skirt at Emporio Armani, the master of Italian glamour is back again, but now with the...
And on the last day of Milan Fashion Week, the surreal world of Francesco Risso descended onto world of fashion. With his fourth women’s show as the Creative Director of Marni, Risso achieved...
Lorenzo Serafini is the kind of man girls fall in love with. He’s great company, very cute and is fast forging a reputation as the king of modern boho. Crucially, in these edgy times, he doesn’t...
A step change for Versace: the label has dipped heavily into its archive of late with a golden chainmail supermodel tribute show this time last year, and a tartan punky outing last season. For...
Don’t let the name fool you. MaxMara’s younger, edgier sister might be all about that sporty life, but there’s much more to it than just trainers and tracksuits. The opening look of the...