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Rewind, please. We’re going back to the 1920s, via the ‘70s. Elie Saab’s Haute Couture collection was no slavish recreation of an era but the spirit of the 20’s alive and kicking. Or should we say shimmying. That’s what these

Welcome to Maison Margiela’s distorted wonder-club-land. We in da club this morning. Disorder. Urban chaos. Nothing is what it seems. But then it never has been at Margiela. Twenty years ago, men in white lab coats held up Martin Margiela’s

Jean Paul Gaultier has the power. It was instilled in him by his first employer, Pierre Cardin. “Pierre Cardin hired me and I was still in school, so I put in a few hours a week at his atelier,” Gaultier memorably

Maison Valentino was like a tantalising dessert. You know it’s going to be good but you think you’ve had enough, after a complete diet of fabulous clothes all week, and then there’s more. Some would argue the best part. Gorge, and

Well, we started the Givenchy couture show in tears. “a flower knows, when its butterfly will return, and if the moon walks out, the sky will understand; but now it hurts, to watch you leave so soon, when I don’t know, if

There’s something constant and enduring about a garden. It’s manicured, but within its structure there’s an epic sense of chaos. Wild at heart. Just like Karl’s Chanel. You never know what to expect at the Grand Palais, it’s a closely guarded

Mr Armani has his head in the clouds. Vibing out. Yes, sweet dreams are made of Armani Privé. “I am still looking for the new and changing and adapting to today and trying to do new things,” he told us

Are feminist slogans the new jewellery? We only ask because they made an appearance at the newest Dior Couture collection. In French, printed across the décolleté acting as necklaces almost. The simplicity of the idea echoed the simplicity of the collection. This

Schiaparelli is taking us to a land far, far away. Pagan myths, darlings. Schiaparelli’s ladies walked with ease, too cool, to the sweet sounds of flutes and birds chirping. A utopian idyll. Fuelled with flirtation, fringed raffia hems flounced, rainbow