Etro: Ready-to-Wear SS21
Although one of only a handful of Italian brands who opted to hold a physical show in Milan this week, Veronica Etro was in the majority by designing and dedicating the collection to Italy. There is...
Although one of only a handful of Italian brands who opted to hold a physical show in Milan this week, Veronica Etro was in the majority by designing and dedicating the collection to Italy. There is...
“A dialogue”: That’s how Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons described their collaborative design debut. The two fashion heavyweights became one invincible, taste-making force with their first joint...
It may have been bucketing down this morning in Milano, yet Sportmax brought the sensuality to the schedule. Where other brands this week have dug into the troves of Italian tradition, fashion...
What to wear to work when the workplace has changed radically? Boss has been at the forefront of professional chic for decades, cornering the market in smart clothes. But what will Boss’ global...
If you didn’t know that Brunello Cucinelli has a 12th Century hamlet in the hills of Umbria where all its clothes are made – you should really check it out. If “the Italian dream” could be a...
There are few brands that capture the Bella Figura quite like Max Mara and few designers that tap into its essence as well as its long-term creative director Ian Griffiths. The designer returned to...
It was back in February when Mr Giorgio Armani made the emergency decision to hold his eponymous label’s Ready-to-wear show behind closed doors. The news was pinged to the phones of editors and...
The Charlotte Knowles woman is always prepared for battle. Her skin-tight fashions have become her armour, charging through each day in sensual body-con, razor-sharp shearlings and corsets akin to...
What’s a big brand to do? A global pandemic interrupts the delivery of your autumn collection, leaving you with a pile of unsold, pristine merchandise. This is a very real problem faced by brands...
As Milan Fashion Week emerges from lockdown, with a slew of live shows, Fendi provided a poignant and powerful moment. The precious time spent with her family during the long Covid months, inspired...
David Koma could have been a professional tennis player. Instead, he became a successful designer and the go-to man for modern, crystal-encrusted dressing-up. His backhand is excellent and he credits...
The desire to look hot doesn’t simply go away. Although what’s hot and what’s not, in the Covid era, is up for debate. For Dean and Dan Caten, who celebrated the 25th birthday of their brand...
When is a presentation not a presentation? Roksanda surprised us with a walk through unlike any other. Guests entered a modernist duplex apartment in Kings Cross encountering groups of Roksanda-clad...
Osman Yousefzada is a polymath. He designs clothes, but he’s also an artist, curator, thinker and writer (his debut novel will come out next year). His new business model reflects that. He focuses...
Christopher Kane has stepped off the fashion merry-go-round and is working to his own schedule. “Creative to the core” is how the designer described his new attitude. Kane is now fully...
One of the joys of this socially distanced, semi-digital London Fashion Week is getting one-on-one time with designers. Articulate, well-read and deft at storytelling, Erdem gives good appointment....
Victoria Beckham had a good lockdown. She loved being in the countryside with her family, wearing the same vintage jeans and simple T-shirt every day. As restrictions eased, she shuttled between her...
Simone Rocha chose not to stage a full-on catwalk show, but she did have live models, arranged in socially distant formation at the Hauser Wirth art gallery. The audience – on strict time schedules...
Art School began as a riotous celebration of queer visibility. Graduating from Ravensbourne University in 2016, before joining Fashion East’s MAN initiative for three seasons, designers Eden...
Nothing symbolises the energy, diversity and creativity of London more than Fashion East. In the time of Covid, a film replaced the much-anticipated fashion show with each of the four designers...
Earlier this year, London-based designer Bethany Williams was commissioned by Somerset House to make a flag for Earth Day. This was set to be a collaboration with the Magpie Project – a...
Edward Crutchley makes the sorts of collections which make the hairs stand up on the back of your neck and the bows in your hair levitate above you. Quite literally. For SS21, the designer turned to...
Is there an age limit for national treasure status? Matty Bovan is making a serious case for the category to be extended to his generation. The ultra-creative, upcycling king is a champion of the...
2020 has been the year of the sweatpant. Who would’ve thought we’d be spending the turn of the new decade sat on the couch all-day, swapping out our everyday fashions for the comfiest...
The white gallery-like walls of her East London studio were the perfect backdrop for Molly Goddard’s exuberant collection which literally burst with joy. The designer’s signature smocking and...
What’s one way to keep the kids entertained during lockdown? Here’s a thought: how about letting them make your latest collection? This was exactly the idea of husband-and-wife design-duo...
When the UK went into lockdown back in March, Michael Halpern was part of the legion of London-based designers who took matters into their own hands. Volunteering at a makeshift PPE factory, Halpern...
Second waves are very on-trend right now, whether its viruses or cultural movements. Vivienne Westwood knows all about that. She heralded a second wave of punk with her SS21 collection, unveiled with...
“Hopeful clothes that make you smile.” That’s how Tom Ford summed up his eye-popper of a SS21 collection. The designer admitted that his first reaction to the pandemic, lockdown and a summer of...
All week, Burberry has been trailing its epic outdoor SS21 happening with images that evoke the power of nature, including huge waves crashing on a lighthouse. “I have always had a very deep,...
Tomo Koizumi has had a whirlwind of a year. Flashback to last October, the Japanese designer was in London as one of the chosen cultural creators in Lego’s campaign Rebuild the World, before...
All this fashion week malarkey can’t half make you feel peckish at times, huh? Lucky us, then, as Anna Sui’s baked us a cherry pie, a nice one as well – topped with a garden of pastry...
Rodarte is a brand for those who dream. Since Kate and Laura Mulleavy founded the label back in 2005, the sister design-duo have swiftly become titans of fantasy dressing. The frilly gowns –...