Brognano: Ready-To-Wear SS20
We’re in Milano and the designers still seem fresh from their Ferragosto beach getaway. It’s no surprise – Italians tend to take all of August off, spending multiple weeks in a state of...
We’re in Milano and the designers still seem fresh from their Ferragosto beach getaway. It’s no surprise – Italians tend to take all of August off, spending multiple weeks in a state of...
Plain fabrications don’t exist in the Etro world. Texture, colour print, decoration, shot through with a worldly, well-travelled, bohemian sensibility are the order of play. It’s not about trends...
This girl loves wearing Iceberg every day. But y’know what she loves more? Wearing it deep into the night. Whilst most scamper to the nearest dimly lit cubbyhole and stay-put there all night to...
Sails wafting gently above the runway accompanied by the sounds of the sea: The Sportmax catwalk was inspired by kinetic installation artist Daniel Wurtzel and the touch point was sailing with...
JLo, in full strut mode, at close quarters, a wake of jungle print chiffon trailing behind her. That body. That face. That attitude. This is what peak fabulosity looks like. Peak fashion too. As pop...
As talk of a female replacement for James Bond builds and Harriet Walter’s new female novel about to drop, Ian Griffiths had a special agent’s wardrobe in mind. Imagining what she might wear...
“I want to be bold, otherwise what’s the point. I’m quite black or white. I want to make a statement. I don’t see the point in making fashion that’s not saying something.” So said...
Peter Pilotto’s move from London to Milan Fashion Week wasn’t just a business decision. The migration was also reflected on the catwalk, their rigorously exuberant silhouettes seemed...
This was the first Fendi women’s show for fifty years that would not have the hand of Karl Lagerfeld on it. The legendary designer died whilst working on the AW19 collection and this new SS20 dawn,...
With London and New York wrapped up and Milan Fashion Week in full swing, it’s safe to say tonal dressing is having a moment. But Mister Armani is ahead of the game. He’s been styling full looks...
What fun it must be to be inside Jeremy Scott’s head. He fixes upon an idea and lets his imagination run riot over it – always with a clever sense of humour. “I was very inspired by Picasso’s...
Everything’s coming up daisies. Alessandro Dell’Acqua used the feel-good spring time flower head to toe throughout his upbeat collection. Who knew there were so many different ways to wear it....
What’s that sound? Oh, just the wedding bells hitting hard at MM6. Maison Margiela’s younger sister of a brand is eloping to Milan, inspired by the conceptual performance of Yoko Ono and...
It was ultra-Prada, the essence of the house distilled, extracted and served to a new generation. Bourgeois elegance subverted by wilful eccentricity for the purpose of making something new. Mrs...
A quick trip to the roller-disco on the final day of London Fashion Week. Our skating partner? The wonderful Katie Ann McGuigan, emerging designer hailing from Ireland who looked to the early 1970s...
Sometimes you just have to skip on hosting a show or a presentation in place of a party with all your mates on the top floor of a Mac store. After five (very) long days of London Fashion Week,...
In the past seven months, Charlotte Knowles and and her partner Alexandre Arsenault were faced with the challenge of creating their first solo show, having unofficially graduated from the Fashion...
Lions, tigers, Xtina – oh my! The Disney girl cum superstar has made the rounds this LFW, finishing things off with the album sleeve of her slept-on masterpiece Bionic album blown-up and slapped...
What are Riccardo Tisci’s ambitions for Burberry? A not-so-subtle clue – the show venue in Shepherd’s Bush was emblazoned with a version of the Burberry logo that was so big it could be...
With an emotionally-charged and poignant collection, Richard Malone paid respect and dedicated the show to his grandmother Nellie, who passed away earlier this year. Malone’s designers are inspired...
There always an artist at the heart of Roksanda Ilincic’s collections. This season she referenced several, from the yellow “Christo” catwalk that snaked through the Serpentine pavilion to...
Most of us have had an edgy phase at some point in our lives. It usually lands slap bang in the middle of your teens. The music you listen to gets darker, the eyeliner you plaster on gets heavier and...
The JW Anderson world is full of unlikely collisions. How about a front row featuring Christina Aguilera in full diva mode next to pocket-sized action heroine Maisie Williams. Jonathan...
Good things are worth waiting for. With a slight delay from his slot on the LFW schedule, Richard Quinn created one of those moments that will go down in fashion history. One of East End’s many...
Into a vast concrete basement we went, where a hyper-real meadow backdrop (surely too green to be true) was projected onto soaring cathedral-like walls. This synthetic nature was writ large and also...
Why decide on a single muse when you can find a new one each season? People that inspire Erdem Moralioglu’s exuberant shows are extraordinary. This time round, it was Tina Modotti, an important...
Sometimes, very rarely, does a fashion show create a mood so strong you get to forget where you came from and where you’re going next. Simone Rocha’s SS20 show did exactly that. Whether it’s...
Guests at the Phoebe English presentation yesterday weren’t greeted with a complimentary bottle of water, nor a glass of something bubbly. Instead, they were given the opportunity to donate a...
What a weekend for Victoria Beckham. On Saturday she launched her direct to consumer beauty brand (it sold out in minutes) and on Sunday she showed a stellar SS20 fashion show in a marbled inner...
With Extinction Rebellion protestors picketing fashion week and Greta Thunberg lobbying in Washington, Roland Mouret was in a contemplative mood. He mulled the question of what is fashion’s place...
Clothes that move. They were the goal of Hussein Chalayan’s latest outing, celebrating the active part of the human body. Maybe dancing in the studio? Or feel like camping in the great outdoors?...
It’s always a party at Ashish. Sometimes political, others a full-on rave. But there was something a bit different about his yesterday’s show. For SS20, the tone seemed slightly more serious and...
Each season, in place of show notes, Justin Thornton and Thea Bregazzi provide a curated selection of books that represent both their reading list for the past six months and the influences on the...
Onto a runway, shaped like a cross, lit by candles and watched over by wicker totems, marched a witchy woman. She brought with her an incantation for global cooling and earthly healing. For her first...
Joy lies at the heart of Halpern. The designer believes in the power of positive thinking and creates clothes that make the wearer feel fantastic. His commitment to fashion hedonism is unwavering....
And off to the Seymour Leisure Centre, we went for the Molly Goddard SS20 show. A caterpillar of single-row benches filled the space, sandwiched so close together you had to awkwardly brush next to...
Walking into the House of Holland show space felt quite like a scene from The Hunger Games. One huge silver sphere inhabited the centre of the makeshift arena next to King’s Cross, with a...
Natalia Alaverdian has great taste in clothes. As a designer, she finds ways in producing ideas that are familiar enough to work as part of the every day, yet special enough you’d want to buy them....
The Rejina Pyo woman is about to go on her holly-bobs. Where is she heading? It’s probably a wine tasting excursion to the south of France. Or maybe even a roadtrip across South America? If she’s...
Following on from their guerrilla-style AW19 showcase in July, Marques’Almeida returned to the Truman Brewery and the London Fashion Week schedule for SS20. And they were back with a colourful...
One oak boardroom table, paper coffee cups scattered sparsely and a chorus of terrifically tailored formalwear. No, this wasn’t an old episode of The Apprentice. And thankfully it wasn’t Lord...
When they previewed their SS20 collection via scans of collaborative footwear with Asics and Camper ahead of yesterday’s show, Laura and Deanna Fanning referenced the muse of astronomy Urania as...
Alongside the heroines of classic cinema, it was Franke Potente’s title protagonist in the 1998 German thriller Run Lola Run that informed Marta Jakubowski’s SS20 collection, with lyrics to the...
The Fashion East platform has hatched so many of London’s fashion stars, that the schedule would be threadbare without it. 19 years on and judging by the number of top level international press...
“The set is a wasteland, it is a premonition of a future wipe out.” Okay, Vivienne Westwood. We see you. Skipping the catwalk format in place of a digital launch, the head of punk royalty...
First look out: a geometric twinset of a shirt with leg of mutton sleeves and a slim pair of trousers in contrasting colours. Streamlined. Sleek. Simple? Showered in red lights, the look seemed like...
Ahh… Good ol’ Americana. It has been a common theme running through New York fashion as of late. Everyone from Telfar to Matthew Adams Dolan and Raf Simons at Calvin Klein have used...
Kieran Culkin in New York Law School wearing a shiny silver top and dappled gold cropped trousers. Believe it or not, this isn’t a strange version of Cluedo, but a scene from the Batsheva show....
When we think of morning commuters, what springs to mind? It’s the men in suits. They’re on there way to Wall Street or Canary Wharf. They usually have a face like a smacked arse and...
Often when designers boast about wishing to follow a more sustainable design output, their focal point reverts back to how the clothes were made. But Gabriela Hearst isn’t stopping there. Her...