October 2017

"It’s best to reserve judgment and really try to encourage women and fashion to be more pro-women," Stella McCartney said recently about the way fashion and feminism can be mutually supportive. It's a cliché to suggest that Stella's designs are a

It was like a see-saw between pretty and hard, goth and garden party. Sarah Burton's Alexander McQueen became hers a long time ago now and yet she is tireless in pushing the house in new and exciting directions. All this without losing

Just about everybody has a house check these days have you noticed? It's become lingua franca for history and provenance and nowse. No faking that at Hermès. Since its inception in 1837 as a harness workshop, the house has reissued and

In a continuation of sportswear and sportswear gestures, Sacai designer and former studio ace at Comme des Garçons and Junya Watanabe, Chitose Abe, has cemented herself as one of the top tier designers at Paris Fashion Week. The gestural effect of wrapping

"Fashion is a tool for self-metamorphosis," said new Artistic Director of French powerhouse Givenchy, Clare Waight Keller, before her show this morning. The Royal College of Art Masters graduate is the first woman to hold the Artistic Director position at Givenchy

All eyes were on Mr Valentino - the original one - at the Valentino show, earlier this afternoon. The 85-year-old designer and ex-creative of the fabled Roman house sat front row next to supermodel turned political pin-up turned singer songwriter Ms Carla

Here we hand over to our Céline correspondent Ms Laura Weir - editor of completely ace Evening Standard Magazine - she's never been a "Céline-slave". She's loved but never prayed at its temple but today that all changed. Here's Laura with more

Balenciaga have made old fashioned fashionable, don't you think? As in not the "olllllld old fashioned" as in 10 years ago recycling trends theory thing, more the "bit odd, I wouldn't wear that, ever" type thing. They've taken *that* and

Here's what Vivienne Westwood said about the new Spring collection she worked closely on with her husband, and designer of the brand, Andreas Kronthaler. It's a lot of fun: "Colours, flowers, a riot of dance and song, joy plus instinctive

Turn it UP! This is glammest, sexiest, shiniest, champagne-fuelled club you've ever been to where Elie Saab-clad ladies with long legs look lush. We're not invited because we're too fat. Back to glam: you want high-octane unapologetic glam with added glam,

Acid bright separates passed through a cowboy filter: or something like that. It was so bright and "up" and loud and god knows at the Acne Studios show just, that it was difficult to make sense of the overwhelming "clothes-noise". But

Haider Ackermann marches to the beat of a different drum, as Linda Ronstadt may have once sung. His world is full of beautiful women doing beautiful things *really*. Not a moodboard pretence: his customers need clothes that take them from