Chloé: Ready-to-wear AW16
The Chloe girl is breezy, light, carefree. She’s physically and metaphorically into flowy- tulle-y stuff, giant sweeping skirts with a hint of the peasants French countryside about them. And what Clare Waight Keller has done, since she’s been leading the
Rick Owens: Ready-to-wear AW16
Post apocalyptic couture under a thatch of unruly hair. It's the Rick Owens way. He called this collection Mastodon and alluded, as he did back in January's menswear season, to an end-of-the-world type scenario where man goes the way of
Vetements: Ready-to-wear AW16
Vetements is kind of like a fashion religion right now. Or maybe a cult. They took over the American Cathedral in Paris to show their winter collection, opening with the brand's stylist Lotta Volka in a sliced-short choir girl ensemble
Balmain: Ready-to-wear AW16
Roll over, Beethoven! In fact, roll over Louis XIV, XV and XVI, and Marie Antoinette for good measure. Olivier Rousteing’s Balmain was an ode to the rococo, to the eighteenth century, hyped-up like never before seen - or maybe in
Vionnet: Ready-to-wear AW16
Madeleine Vionnet was one of the leading lights of pre-war Parisian haute couture. She changed the face of fashion, inventing the bias cut still beloved by celebrities for red carpet wear today. So the challenge at Vionnet is far less
Dries Van Noten: Ready-to-wear AW16
The black-rimmed eyes of the Marchesa Casati, that dame de decadence whose ethereal figure and outrageous exploits haunted belle époque high society, stared out from each and every invite to Dries Van Noten’s show - hand painted by the artist
Maison Margiela: Ready-to-wear AW16
“Raw-core” was the word John Galliano came up with to describe his winter 2016 Margiela collection. And as everyone is looking to the raw, to the code and ideas Margiela originally devised - unfinished hems, anti-luxury fabrics, oversized, undersized, distress
Anthony Vaccarello: Ready-to-wear AW16
Is Anthony Vaccarello going to Saint Laurent? That's the big question - one we're not allowed to ask (and even if we did, the only answer was "no comment"). But it gave Anthony Vaccarello's always-energetic kick-start to Paris fashion week
WATCH: Versace Palazzo Empire Bag
How better to demonstrate the desirability of the very sexy new Versace Palazzo Empire bag than with a collection of equally very sexy models of the moment writhing across a table to get to it? Rosie Huntington Whiteley, Bella Hadid and Stella Maxwell, to
Dior SS16 Campaign Featuring Jennifer Lawrence
Oh, Jennifer Lawrence! Is there no end to your talents? Just this week you were nominated for an Oscar (your fourth nomination, just FYI) and now you are the angelic visage of Dior SS16. Here, we are told, you are
BALLY: AW16 PRESENTATION
There really is nothing better than a press release, especially when done well. Well there is, the actual collection. And the Bally AW16 collection was great. But the press release was equally great. Kind of a fashions in word form
Giorgio Armani: Ready-to-wear AW16
We’d estimate a good 90% of Giorgio Armani’s winter 2016 collection consisted of trousers. Impeccably cut velvet ones, perfectly pitched tweedy ones, a few in flowing chiffon. He opened and closed with trousers - the closer under a billowing cape
Missoni: Ready-to-wear AW16
Missoni is a label all about luxury and natty knits, which have become something of a synonym for luxe with comfort, a bit of stretch. A certain ease. Missoni are experts, and this season Angela Missoni revelled in her family
Dsquared2: Ready-to-wear AW16
Military, Victorian and Samurai. What’ve they got in common? Well, in fashion terms, they all share a fierce bit of fabric manipulation, a love of sharp cuts, and a dose of embroidered pomp and circumstance. Oh, and they formed the
Calvin Klein: AW16 Presentation
It’s always exciting to see what Calvin Klein cooks up for their biannual presentation in Milan. This season, we sauntered inside to be met with… outside. An urban park, filled with well-dressed (and occasionally well-undressed) urban rebels for us to