MM6: Ready-to-wear SS20
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...
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...
Who better to make the male counterpart to Zendaya’s crazy, sexy, cool chick with a flare for flares and retro fashion than the Formula 1 racing superstar Lewis Hamilton. In a cross-Atlantic...
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...
IT’S HAPPENING!! London Fashion Week is kicking off today, and to say we’re excited would be an understatement. This is our home and LFW is the time when we get to hang out with all our...
And then there was one. Always at the pinnacle of spectacles, a Marc Jacobs show is the only one that could close out NYFW. Especially this season which, more so than ever before, felt like it was...
Photograph by Beatriz Puppo Amo Functionality tends to surpass form when it comes to gloves. Maybe you would don a pair when the temperature drops, for doing your dishes or sorting out the garden....
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...
Frills, sequins, denim corsets… If someone showed you the catwalk images of Eckhaus Latta’s SS20 show without telling you the name of the designer, you’d probably guess a few...
And there she goes again… Is there anything Bad Gal Riri can’t do? In the latest addition to her booming fashion CV, Rihanna contributed to this season being the most spectacle-oriented fashion...
Stuart Vevers took Coach to new heights for SS20. Quite literally. Yesterday’s show was set against the midtown New York City skyline, on the newest section of the High Line, the Spur and Coach...
Putting on an Anna Sui dress is a psychedelic experience in its own right; a legal type of high. The free-flowing frocks in candy-coloured hues that have become synonymous with the brand can make you...
Roses are red, violets are blue, new season means new Fashion East line-up. As announced earlier today, joining Gareth Wrighton and Yuhan Wang as part of the big emerging designer family is the...
Enter the world of The Row. Without a bell or a whistle in sight, the white walls of Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen’s New York studio is only broken up with simple black benches. The (very)...
Maryam Nassir Zadeh’s clothes pose a certain joie de vivre, an infectious love of life, clothes and dressing. It’s a pervasive and brilliantly consuming spirit that is so closely aligned with her...
A season’s break and $400k courtesy of the CFDA Vogue Fashion Fund later, Pyer Moss is back on the catwalk. And yes, it was all worth it. Both the money and the time obviously suit Kerby...
Seasons come and go, but we can always count on Sander Lak to bring a ridiculously rich colour palette to the catwalk. He’s basically fashion’s answer to Pantone, with each of the Sies...
This is the sound of the underground. But no, not the Girls Aloud kind – it’s an ode to the debaucheries that happen in the New York City subways, filtered through the high-glam set of Tom...