Mugler: Ready-to-wear SS21
Take body-con and make it avant-garde. That’s what Casey Cadwallader’s mission is at Mugler. His super-powered aesthetic reinterprets the founder’s legacy for a high-tech blockbuster age. These...
Take body-con and make it avant-garde. That’s what Casey Cadwallader’s mission is at Mugler. His super-powered aesthetic reinterprets the founder’s legacy for a high-tech blockbuster age. These...
This was a season of change for Off-White. In response to the pandemic, Virgil Abloh has brought his mens- and womenswear collections together for the first time. Moving forward, he will also show...
Alexander McQueen is synonymous with shows. Lee McQueen’s reputation for emotional storytelling and live, runway drama, has been continued by Sarah Burton. She weaves thoughtful narratives and...
Anthony Vaccarello is a designer never short of spectacle. His catwalk shows are usually set against the twinkling backdrop of the Eiffel Tower, which serves as a guiding light for the Saint Laurent...
The video of the SS21 show unveiled today was the final piece of Daniel Lee’s Bottega Veneta storytelling jigsaw. It started in October with a secret show at Sadler’s Wells for a tiny...
Like many creatives, Roland Mouret has embarked upon a period of intense reflection in response to the pandemic. He’s questioned everything from his wholesale business model to what his customers...
The Proenza Schouler boys aren’t the biggest fans of digitalised fashion week. “We were deprived of the material world and longed for touch,” wrote Jack McCollough and Lazaro...
For Charles Jeffrey, producing his Loverboy SS21 collection in a pandemic was a catharsis of creation. His first challenge was what to do with his conflicting emotions. He translated the negative...
Rei Kawakubo doesn’t speak expansively about her work. A one word clue is often the most fashion watchers get. But this time, showing in Tokyo due to the pandemic, she said: “The human brain...
Introducing “The Spangles”. Not the latest K-Pop girl group but Junya Watanabe’s muses for the season. A glorious, glittering gang of women, inspired by his nostalgia for stars of...
Husband and wife design duo Lucie and Luke Meier are masters of refinement. It’s what makes them the perfect fit for Jil Sander. The pair create quality clothes, without any gimmicks –...
Stella McCartney has always been a questioning designer. ‘How can we do things better?’ has been her guiding motto since the beginning. She leads by example and along the way has amassed huge...
The world has turned upside down and Nicolas Ghesquière is designing for the in-between. Louis Vuitton, the final show of the Paris season, seized the post-Corona moment. The designer talked about...
Back in July, Maison Margiela teamed up with Nick Knight to release S.W.A.L.K. – an hour-long film that followed John Galliano through a sequence of Zoom calls, charity shop trips and 12-hour...
An iconic piece of La La Land came to Paris. Chanel co-opted the Hollywood sign, using enormous letters as a backdrop for its SS21 show. Movies were on Virginie Viard’s mind. “This collection is...
Football crazy, Miu Miu mad. This afternoon, Miuccia Prada presented her much chicer alternative to the Premier League. Teaming up with Dutch design studio AMO, the designer mocked up her own sports...
From American streetwear to Paris Couture, via Lady Gaga, Kanye, a sprinkling of Kardashians and a supporting role on the Dior men’s collection; Matthew Williams road to the top of fashion has not...
Yesterday, Gabriela Hearst made her Paris Fashion Week debut, a little under a month after being crowned American Womenswear Designer of the Year at the CFDA Fashion Awards. The Uruguayan designer...
A curtain of silver discs slinked around the stark white Paco Rabanne show space which was open to the street outside. Cars whizzed past, pedestrians stopped to stare, real life bumped right up...
Sometimes the simplest ideas are the best. Demna Gvasalia unveiled his Summer 21 pre-collection for Balenciaga with a film, featuring lone models striding through the Paris night, to the pulsing...
The Thom Browne spring/summer 2021 collection came to us live from 239,000 miles above the earth, in the year 2132. A modern master of pure fashion fantasy, Browne cracked the ‘phygital’...
Fashion doesn’t happen in a vacuum. Lockdown left Hermès designer Nadège Vanhée-Cybulski longing for a sense of collaboration and a creative togetherness. The designer sent her collection to her...
Dame Vivienne Westwood has always believed that culture enriches us and to that end, she and her husband Andreas Kronthaler, combined their lookbook shoot with a poetry reading. Dame Viv stood in...
We can all do with Marie Kondo-ing our lifestyles here and there, Issey Miyake included. Upon shipping the brand’s last Ready-to-wear collection to Paris back in February, designer Satoshi...
It’s hard to believe it was a mere nine months ago Kenneth Ize made his Paris Fashion Week debut. It’s even harder to fathom how this was the designer’s debut in the first place. As...
In one of the season’s most innovative presentations, Christian Louboutin unveiled his SS21 collection exclusively on Zepeto, the Korean immersive gaming app where you design your own avatar (can...
Leaning into the show-in-a-box concept pioneered for his eponymous label, Jonathan Anderson presented his SS21 Loewe collection as an interactive exhibition, made up of imposing, life-sized images of...
How should we dress is dystopian times? As his models strode through the smoke in the monumental piazza of the Venice Lido casino, Rick Owens served his answer. Dressed in various states of dark,...
It was back in July, during the first-ever Digital Paris Men’s Fashion Week, when Glenn Martens first introduced his live lookbook concept. Instead of opting for an obscure fashion film, or an...
Olivier Rousteing thinks big and his Balmain show was epic. The designer celebrated 75 years of the brand with an ambitious, stadium-level, open-air production, held after-dark in the Jardin des...
On a regular day, Laura and Deanna Fanning are inseparable. You will usually find the twin sisters shacked up in their studio, day-in, day-out, working on their latest womenswear collection for Kiko...
Optimism and pragmatism reigned supreme at Kenzo, where the talented Felipe Oliveira Baptista created a look that addressed Covid realities in soaring style. Inspired by bees, “the regulators of...
Comfort ease and pragmatism – the principles guiding Maria Grazia Chiuri’s Dior are informed by the new normal. Lockdown changed our relationship to fashion. How things make you feel is just as...
Marine Serre has seen the future and it’s scary. The Joan d‘Arc of fashion’s sustainability movement is setting an inspiring example for big brands and consumers alike. Encoded into everything...
Covid brings out the best in some creatives. JW Anderson first debuted his show-in-a-box concept in July, deep into lockdown. A clever way to give some of his remote audience something physical to...
For spring/summer 2021, Thebe Magugu got tactical. After setting up his own online shopping destination to combat store closings and order cancellations of his AW20 collection due to Covid-19, the...
On the final day of Milan Fashion Week, Massimo Giorgetti put his fearless gang of MSGM women in the hot seat. Time spent in isolation over the past few months offered the designer some room to...
Set in the disused Fonderia Macchi, a former 1930s metal factory in north east Milan, Valentino’s creative director Pierpaolo Piccioli brought the brand home to Italy for the first time under his...
The MM6 Maison Margiela team are fully embracing the working-from-home lifestyle. The brand’s latest collection questions the corporate and embraces the domestic, reads the press release....
Is there a living fashion designer with more cultural impact than Giorgio Armani? In lieu of his usual Milan fashion show, the designer took over Italian state television for a special Armani night....
There’s nothing quite so thrilling as a Versace catwalk show. High octane is a signature of this house, where understatement is not in the vocabulary. In a world that’s had its stuffing knocked...
What makes a great fashion show in the Covid era? Ask Moschino’s Jeremy Scott. Out of necessity, the catwalk has moved online and onto film. Some designers have revelled in the new format, others...
In lieu of staging a socially-distanced catwalk, Marni creative director Francesco Risso thought on a worldwide scale. During a time of great divide – both physically and in a political sense –...
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...