February 2016

Prabal Gurung loves a polished girl. A girl in lace and ball gowns and fur and silk and chiffon. All that kind of stuff. He's not really a fan of the down and dirty, denim or leathers or anything like

Tron meets Blade Runner. Yes and yes. Those were the cited inspos for Carol Lim and Humberto Leon's Opening Ceremony collection, devoted to a future fantastic vision but actually rooted firmly in the not-too-distant past. Retro futurism was the mood, slick silhouettes

Have you ever seen The Eyes of Laura Mars, a brilliant movie with Faye Dunaway as a smashing seventies fashion photographer and all her pictures actually done by Newton? All the best bits of DVF are a bit like that

Shayne Oliver is a disrupter on the New York fashion week schedule. He called his autumn/winter Hood By Air show “Pilgrimage” and showed models wrapped in slit duffle bags sewn together as coats, or wrapped in that airport plastic they

Derek Lam loves the seventies. Who doesn’t? Especially we at 10, gorged on gorgeous glamour, Jerry Hall with her hair caked in Elnett and conducting static electricity in a lovely lurex bit of Yves Saint Laurent and fairly reeking of

Maxwell Osborne and Dao-Yi Chow of Public School are a couple of the hardest-working men in fashion: they’ve got a DKNY show coming up, they showed their Public School menswear last week and - oh, yeah, the autumn/winter 2016 womenswear

We love a corset. So does Victoria Beckham. She based her whole autumn/winter 2016 show around them, harking back to the dresses that she started her career with but injecting them with a bit of ease. Maybe that reflects the

The chic vampires of “Only Lovers Left Alive” were Joseph Altuzarra’s unexpected inspiration. Wait, actually, vampires have always been chic. Think of Catherine Deneuve in The Hunger, sucking the life out of her prey in Alain Mikli sunglasses and Azzedine

Alexander Wang is always down with the kids - there are a few kids here at 10 Towers, and we know they’d love to wear Wang’s wares. This season his collection was shown in a church, but if the models

James Bond meets Sixties Olympians meets Belle De Jour dressed up in crocodile - except, not the skin. That was the mad mix behind Felipe Oliveira Baptista’s latest Lacoste show - which, oddly enough, all wound up making perfect sense.