MSGM: Ready-To-Wear AW19
Designer Massimo Giorgetti has a special way of thinking about the MSGM girl. He imagines she’s in a film he’s directing and works from there. Here’s the heart print party dress she wore for a first date that didn’t go to plan,
Bottega Veneta: Ready-To-Wear AW19
Wham bam! And just like that a new era Bottega Veneta begins. Daniel Lee presented his first co-ed catwalk show for the brand with a rare kind of confidence. It started with a square neck black leather dress worn with brown
Fendi: Ready-To-Wear AW19
It was a fitting tribute. As the last model, wearing Karl Lagerfeld’s final designs for Fendi, left the catwalk, Silvia Venturini Fendi took a brief, but emotional solo bow. Then a large screen flickered to life and there was Karl
Moschino: Ready-To-Wear AW19
Jeremy Scott knows how to play the fashion game. Wit and wow are his key ingredients and his AW19 Moschino show had plenty. The theme was the American gameshows he loved growing up and the idea of glamour they perpetuated. Queue
Prada: Ready-To-Wear AW19
Monstrously good. That’s the best way to sum up Prada AW19. Anyone sitting too comfortably on the foam benches that lined the catwalk got the jolt of their life with the first look out. A black wool bustier dress, swagged
Max Mara: Ready-To-Wear AW19
“Glamour is the secret ingredient that puts the power into power dressing.” So says designer Ian Griffiths who delivered a tour-de-fierce in boss lady chic. It started with strong shoulders and skirts that looked like they were cut from men’s trousers.
Jil Sander: Ready-To-Wear AW19
Some people are sun seekers, others are thrill seekers, but the Jil Sander woman is a serenity seeker. She’s happiest in a divinely cut white shirt dress with a pair of swallows etched on the back. Lucie and Luke Meier’s
United Colours Of Benetton: Ready-To-Wear AW19
United Colours of Benetton, the sleeping lion of the Italian fashion industry is waking up. In October 2018, Benetton announced that Jean Charles de Castelbajac was joining the house as it’s first ever creative director. He joined founder Luciano Benetton
Legendary Designer Karl Lagerfeld Dies Aged 85
This self-portrait is taken from the cover of our 10th Anniversary issue. Karl Lagerfeld died on the job, which is exactly how he would have wanted it. Retirement, even at the age of 85 was never contemplated. The longest-running, most successful,
No 21: Ready-To-Wear AW19
Coming or going? Either way, Alessandro Dell'Acqua has you covered. The designer made sure his girls will be remembered for their entrances and their exits by designing a surprise into the back of many of his looks. A simple beige satin shift
Gucci: Ready-To-Wear AW19
Alessandro Michele got to the heart of the fashion conundrum with his Gucci show which grappled with the obsession of our age: authenticity. If we put on a mask – or contrive a look are we being fake? Not at all, argues
Byblos: Ready-To-Wear AW19
The enigmatic Northern Lights was in the mind of Byblos designer Manuel Facchini whose upbeat vision for the Italian house is fast gathering fans. He put together a convincing line-up of quilted cocooning coats to keep out the polar vortex. Every kind of hooded parka
Mary Katrantzou: Ready-To-Wear AW19
How do you follow a 10-year anniversary show which had stadium level production and couture level craftsmanship? For Mary Katrantzou, the answer lay in the elements and the creation myth (a Greek one, naturally, posited by Empedocles in the 5th
Halpern: Ready-To-Wear AW19
Is there life beyond sequins? For Michael Halpern, who made his name with bedazzled, defiantly sparkly glam rock inspired looks that are as life-affirming as they are ostentatious, the answer is, yes. Halpern’s sparkles have always had a political element. In
Matty Bovan: Ready-To-Wear AW19
London Fashion Week would be dull without a dose of anarchic playfulness from Matty Bovan. The marvellous Yorkshireman, (who according to fashion folklore, has unicorn DNA - cut him and he bleeds rainbows) knows how to cast a very modish