“Mad for Modigliani” said Vera Wang - via her autumn/winter 2016 show notes, not in person. “Glorious Giacometti. Long. Lean. Lithe.” Those were all words that sprang to mind when watching her show. Well, not Modigliani or Giacometti, to be

Tory Burch had horses when she was a young girl. Of course she did. There’s something thoroughbred and sleek and speedy about her clothes, just like the aforementioned cross between animal and transportation. And she closed her winter 2016 shows

A live band pumped out music for Rag & Bone’s autumn/winter 2016 show - but if there’s any band you want to be with, it’s David Neville and Marcus Wainwright’s R&B. How come? because the Bone brand merch is better

Zac Posen is a designer in the old-fashioned sense. Meaning he genuinely designs his clothes - they’re the product of painstaking cutting and fitting, elaborate workmanship and embellishment, a link to the tradition of Seventh Avenue couture. For winter, Posen

Beefy tweeds, quilted nylons, a acid-yellow and khaki palette, and touch of panne velvet. Those were the unexpected components of today’s 3.1 Phillip Lim show for autumn/winter 2016 - they wound their way around the models’ bodies in myriad convoluted

A tornado of tailoring was the rough feel at Thom Browne: every look contained a coat, of some description - even the bride, who wore an organza jacket around her legs and on her head as a veil, a bit

The acrid smell of hairspray stung your nostrils at Jeremy Scott - how else could you get those B-52 beehives to defy gravity so consistently than with an entire can of Elnett on each and every bounce? Jeremy Scott was

Ever seen HMS Pinafore? We reckon Tommy Hilfiger has - although his versions, otherwise known as his autumn/winter 2016 show, was soundtracked by the Jackson five and dresses up in forties sequined tea-dresses, sweeping navy pea coats and officer’s capes,

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