March 2017

Getting our disco on. Sparkle and shine. And a whole cavalcade of gentleman's coats, wide pants and straight-up no nonsense jackets. Amber Valletta. Carolyn Murphy. A slew of cool crafty quilted velvet. Embroidered third eyes on the back of jackets

Could we say that Valentino's ladies were walking in Memphis this season? By which we are not referring to the Tennessean city, rather the Italian design collective, the Memphis Group, known for those swirly colourful patterns, which this season found

Hundreds of stage lights suspended, bleachers for the audience, a translucent scrim giving some shadowy backstage action for us all to watch pre-show. There was a thrumming one-note organ, a giant perspective. Shadows of girls, hair, makeup. Voices, laughter, calling

Did Demna have a bit of a thing about items you step on this season? Things that tend to lie underfoot? First hint was that carpet, which you’ve probably seen already, unless on some sort of self-imposed media blackout, printed

Seem to be having a bit of a marabou moment this season. Feathers bloody everywhere. Not to suggest that we're adverse - quite the opposite - we're all for a garment that allows us to live out Barbara Cartland-based-boudoir fantasies, involving,

As you may already know, Rei Kawakubo, and thus Comme des Garçons, are the subject of this year’s Metropolitan Museum Costume Institute exhibition. Which, in turn, means that they will be the theme of this year’s Met Gala. So what

Could we possibly love Dame Viv any more than the near fanatic levels that we already do? Well, as it would go, yes. Reached heart palp heights this afternoon when, at the Andreas Kronthaler for Vivienne Westwood AW17 show, she

This was inspired by Giselle. The ballet, not the supermodel. Which is a bit of a dark and involves a group of dead virgin women who dance men to death. Whether or not that was the exact reference point Mr Saab was

Was Canadian chanteuse Celine Dion on the mood board for Acne Studios AW17? More specifically, Celine Dion at the 1999 Academy Awards? Because there was a back-to-front blazer moment here. Which was not, perhaps unfortunately, in the form of a

It was all about the shoulder at Mugler. Isn’t it always about the shoulder at Mugler? No bad thing - what quite says power woman like a large-shouldered garment? And Mugler's women have always have been nothing if not if

Somewhat distracted here by the sight of Nicki Minaj’s left breast, which was very much out, and wearing, for modesty's sake, a tiny metal hat. A look possibly best reserved for after 6pm, but who are we to judge? And