Fendi is feeling the 80s for fall 2018
Fendi is feeling the 80s for fall 2018 Plaids and checks in greys and browns set the tone for the collection, offset by navys, plums and olives. Blazers and coats are built very literally boxy through the shoulders, a structural nod to the padded…
Gucci’s mysterious Mayo Clinic in Milan
Gucci’s mysterious Mayo Clinic in Milan Staged on the outskirts of city in Gucci’s official show space, the lime-green-walled set was hung with surgical light-heads, just like in an advanced operating room. Through this Mayo Clinic mockup, green operating tables, placed carefully on red rubber…
Moncler and the art of reinventing down
Moncler showed eight capsules from eight different designers Winter’s almost over, but Moncler‘s massive eight-part capsule drop for their Genius Project is making me wish it would last a little longer . The Italian apparel line opened Milan Fashion Week, showing eight capsules from eight different…
Milan Fashion Week: the calendar
Milan Fashion Week F/W 2018: the calendar Discover here all the coolest appointments and parties during the next Milano Fashion Week (20th-26th February)
Jean Paul Gaultier Puts on a Show
The designer of Gaultier paid homage to Pierre Cardin, but it wasn’t long until his proclivity for camp kicked in Jean Paul Gaultier, to fight the unforgiving passing of time, keeps setting it backwards. The noisy and chaotic scene at the entrance of his shows has…
Givenchy Turns a Page at Paris Fashion Week
Clare Waight Keller’s surprisingly intense and structured collection honoured her predecessors in the job while revealing her own enthusiastic explorations There was something mildly breathtaking about Clare Weight Keller’s couture debut at Givenchy on Tuesday night, especially after her iffy pret-a-porter collection in October. So now she comes…
Abercrombie Chairman to Leave After Resolving Rocky Transition
Arthur Martinez is retiring, signalling that a long quest to set the clothing chain on a new course is wrapping up. Abercrombie & Fitch Co. executive chairman Arthur Martinez is retiring, signalling that a long quest to set the clothing chain on a new course is…
New Horizons at Maison Margiela John Galliano’s first menswear collection for the brand
Maison Margiela‘s Paris fashion show was a bizarrely memorable outerwear sensation, from first to last John Galliano is in love with the idea of “dressing in haste”. With his first menswear collection for Maison Margiela, that seemed most evident in the number of looks that…
Alexander McQueen’s A/W 2018 captures a modern-day dandyish elegance
Every season the McQueen label channels the same poetic punkish attitude, adding to it a new embellishment or weaving into it a new story A/W 2018 captures a certain modern-day dandyish elegance; research went from the genteel metier of Savile Row to the seasoned sports…
Another High-Voltage Punch at Balmain
You cannot fault Balmain ‘s creative director Olivier Rousteing for not being consistent He inhabits his own bubble — a flashy, catchy, unabashedly glamorous one — and creates Balmain’s collections accordingly. The ingredients are well known and well established at this point, and for menswear are rather…