Giorgio Armani: Pre-Fall 2020
And here we are again… A new season of destination shows is upon us and what better way to start than at the beginning of the alphabet – Armani, as in Giorgio Armani. The Italian design...
And here we are again… A new season of destination shows is upon us and what better way to start than at the beginning of the alphabet – Armani, as in Giorgio Armani. The Italian design...
First it was Gucci who took us on a cruise, and now it’s time to board Chanel’s train line for a round-trip to fashion paradise. Luxury brands seem to be desperate to make sure we look...
What’s a good film without a great wardrobe department? It’s been the job role for some of the best designers of our times to ensure the costumes of silver-screen classics look timeless...
Hold onto your breaths, boys and girls – the legendary Vivienne Westwood flat corset is back, back, back again! Based on the original Statue of Liberty corset, the piece was first introduced as...
Supriya Lele SS20 Okay, okay. We know we are getting just a tad ahead of ourselves by already thinking about the spring/ summer fashions. But we honestly can’t help ourselves – SS20 was a...
If you got a penny every time you read a piece explaining the world of streetwear in the intro… You’d probably be able to afford one of those Supreme x Louis Vuitton holdalls on StockX....
Stop clock watching and listen up! Time and the temporality of fashion is the theme for The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Insitute’s 2020 exhibition. The Met will celebrate its 150th...
Princess Diana, courtesy of Getty “She was wearing a skirt and a big-shouldered jacket of a royal blue that was fashionable in France, a blue-and-white-striped silk blouse, and electric-blue lizard...
It’s no secret that the fashion industry is one of the world’s biggest polluters, but it’s a fact many can conveniently choose to forget. Extinction Rebellion’s Boycott Fashion movement...
Clutch onto your pearls girls and boys, something quite spectacular is launching today, and it’s worth splashing that hard-earned cash on. Teaming up with e-tailer giant Fartfetch, Susan Caplan...
Looking at the world through rose-tinted glasses is so last year. Right now, we’re more into looking at the crumbling world in front of us through a pair of square-shaped, round-lensed glasses....
Rave. It’s something we’ve all been fixated with at some point. We buy books on UK Garage, spend our weekends attending exhibitions on Acid House and have at least once fantasised about...
It doesn’t take long to fall in love with Tomo Koizumi. First up, his technicolour tulle extravaganzas look like something out of a manga-themed art show. There’s also the inspiring...
New Dauphine, new store, new everything. Move over Halloween, Mean Girls and “It’s October 3rd” – you’re all old news. October 23rd is the new hot date of the month, and we...
Superstar-stylist and all-round cool girl Lotta Volkova has joined forces with the Geneva-born artist Senta Simond to create a photographic series for Miu Miu. Quite the triumvirate. The result is...
I’ve never been an anklet kinda guy. Even a glimpse of someone’s bare ankle embellished with some dodgy souvenir piece of string made me cringe, this feeling trumped only by the sighting...
Ryan Lo is having a red carpet moment. More and more, it’s celebrities who turn to the Hong Kong-born, London-based fashion designers for sartorial options in their public appearances....
Let me hear you say: this sh*t is bananas! Gwen Stefani is to receive this year’s Fashion Icon Award at the E! People’s Choice Awards on November 10th in Santa Monica. And with Victoria Beckham...
Yasmine, King’s Road 1984 by Derek Ridgers The world is divided into two sorts of people: those who think the world is divided into two sorts of people, and those who realise that this is...
Are you a true 1990s baby? Well it doesn’t really matter if you were born within, long before or years beyond the decade. These ten years, and the trends that were spawned within them, have...
Without a doubt, Nicholas Ghèsquiere has the best gang of girls fronting his campaigns. There’s Voguing queen Angel and badass Sansa Stark, a tap-dancing Cruella de Vil, the current Bond girl...
A few years ago, I visited Unmade, a knit and tech start-up (that’s right, knitting and technology, the two are surprisingly well suited) based at the innovations incubator Makerversity, at...
If you thought the badass bitchez of Ashley Williams were away, think again. This season, the British designer decided to skip London Fashion Week in place of a spot on the schedule of Seoul’s...
We’d never let the weather dictate our lives – it might be freezing outside, but we’re out for a cruise. And instead of Jane McDonald, we’re going cruising with Maria Grazia...
Givenchy AW14 This is 2019. Being a model isn’t just about looking your finest in images and having the best hip sway on the catwalk. Boys and girls who front campaigns are using their public...
The setting couldn’t have been more spectacular. Mary Katrantzou showed her SS20 collection at The Temple of Poseidon, high on cliffs of Cape Sounion, just outside Athens. Today it’s one of the...
While some designers poetically laud about “their woman” being aspirational with her incredibly aloof character and semi-mystical aura, Max Pearmain and Anthony Symonds focus on the...
With an eerie music video of the British artist Sophie, her cheekbones artificially enhanced to alien-like proportions, the show began. The film formed a vast moving backdrop to the bare...
Posh Spice. Vicky B. VB. Victoria Beckham. Call her however you want, but she’s one of our favourite women in the world. Always unapologetically herself with a healthy dose of humour, Vicky...
Thom Browne SS20 Alas, another fashion month is behind us. We saw some serious fashions, soaked our livers in too much champers and are all very much deserving of a whole weekend’s worth of...
There’s always a naughty schoolgirl at the heart of Miu Miu – the kind that plays truant but never gets caught. This season the label focused on that core girl playing with school uniform...
It would be a shame if the only conversation about the Chanel show was of the rogue YouTube comedienne who invaded the catwalk as a prank – and was firmly escorted of the stage by supermodel turned...
Sarah Burton talked of stripping things back to the toile, and of clarity and paring things down. So her show started with a model striding the bare boards of her set wearing the most divine white...
From Extinction Rebellion picketing shows in London to Gucci going carbon neutral, this fashion season has been marked by a big conversation around sustainability. What is best fashion practice in an...
Why find inspiration in one specific place when you can take the whole world as your main point of reference? Battling chaos of our society with beauty, Chitose Abe of Sacai decided to take a worldly...
It wasn’t a fashion show, it was a total sensory experience. In a vast film studio on then outskirts of Paris Demna Gvasalia staged an immersive happening. We passed from the grey Paris morning...
Billy Porter might have won the London Fashion Week street style game, but Marie Antoinette seems to be the accidental icon of the SS20 season. At Westwood and Bovan, bustles and panniers have part...
The clue to the big story for Givenchy’s Clare Waight Kellerwas on the invitation: a swatch of frayed denim. The designer’s SS20 collection featured several pieces in upcycled denim. Denim...
If Valentino’s Pierpaolo Piccioli has a signature it is for making divine clothes with the power to transport the wearer (and the watcher). He makes women look breathtakingly beautiful. Adut...
Nadège Vanhee-Cybulski’s show notes talked about replacing a quest for perfection with a quest for movement and her collection was full of supple pieces crafted for an active life. Utility and...
Cloud forms and fifties pin-ups, mixed with Rococo temptresses their swagged and bustled gowns bringing a sense of drama to the occasion. Andreas Kronthaler for Vivienne Westwood presented a sensual...
A classic handbag, one that looks just as good at the office as it does on the dance floor, is as timeless as a well-cut pair of trousers. You don’t need many and you’ll know it when you...
The picture expands. This SS20 women’s collection was part two of a three-part creative trilogy culminating in December with Rei Kawakubo’s costume designs for Olga Neuwirth’s production of...
South – West. North – East. Whichever way you look, you will find elements of Haider Ackermann’s inspirations. Yet, when his clothes come down the catwalk, you can’t describe them any...
Down under the gilded glory of the Ponte Alexandre 3rd we went, and into another world. This was a Noir Kei Ninomiya show to remember. The stark white catwalk cut through a dark vaulted tunnel as one...
Junya Watanabe explored the art of the trench. This perfect modern classic got the full Junya treatment. The designer took the coat as his starting point. The show opened with his ideal contemporary...
Hedi‘s Celine is taking shape. His first collection for the house channelled his skinny rock chick obsessions, his second collection was a volte-face embrace of Celine’s bourgeois chic...
Olivier Rousteing knows his woman. She loves glamour and believes in making an effort. She’s not the sort to leave the house without make-up Kylie Jenner is her pin-up and created the makeup look...
Jonathan Anderson transformed the UNESCO foyer with swivelling tubs of pampas grass towering crystal sculptures and mechanised net curtains. It was a gentle kind of surrealism that set the stage for...
The collection was called ‘A sense of Joy’ and that’s what new designer Satoshi Kondo, making his debut for Issey Miyake brought. We say new, but he’s worked for the house for over a decade...
The delightful oddities found in Glenn Marten’s collections for Y/Project are much loved by the fashion crowds, but have always been garnering a different kind of attention from the mass media....
Amid the madness of Paris Fashion Week, sitting down and flicking through a photobook sounds like a dream scenario. Thankfully, we’ve got the Scandis to keep us sane. Today, Danish fashion...