Rui: Ready-To-Wear AW22
In Rui’s AW22 collection, the lines between the everyday and festive, masculine and feminine, functionality and costume, are completely blurred. The brand’s founder, Rui Zhou, found inspiration in mundanity. Her new collection was a meditation on the juxtapositions and ambiguities
Miu Miu: Ready-To-Wear AW22
Flick through any magazine or street-style feed and there’s no getting away from the Miu Miu mini skirt. Impossibly short, daringly low slung and deliciously Y2K, this belt-length skirt is the piece that stole the season. Miu Miu is not ready
Kiko Kostadinov: Ready-To-Wear AW22
Girly isn't a derogative adjective in the design vocabulary of Laura and Deanna Fanning, the Aussie twins who head up Kiko Kostadinov womenswear. The twosome are proving to be quite the hit amongst the young fashion crowd. Thier geometric jackets and
Chanel: Ready-To-Wear AW22
Tweed: it is the timeless heart of Chanel. Virginie Viard dedicated her whole show to the fabric, presenting her collection inside a tweed arena, where the walls, floor and seats were covered in the stuff. Gabrielle Chanel had first come
Kenneth Ize: Ready-To-Wear AW22
Stripes, checks and argyle: these were the patterns that functioned as the beating heart of Kenneth Ize’s autumn/winter 2022 offering in Paris this weekend. Equally conventional and eccentric, they worked their way into maxi skirts (with pockets!), bold blazers and
Louis Vuitton: Ready-To-Wear AW22
Louis Vuitton took over the vast atrium of the Musee D’Orsay for a fashion first – the museum had never hosted a catwalk event. Nicolas Ghesquiere’s models, led by Squid Game superstar HoYeon Jung, snaked around its sculptures and famous artworks
Stella McCartney: Ready-To-Wear AW22
Stella McCartney looked to the abstract grandeur of Frank Stella for a collection that she described as “effortlessly wearable art". His graphic, geometric lines snaked across velvet suits and zigzagged around the body in enveloping knit pieces, whilst his Spectralia
Goom Heo: Ready-To-Wear AW22
Goom Heo doesn’t make menswear for the basic bitches. No, no. Rather, the LVMH semi-finalist and Fashion East alumni uses her eponymous label to play with perplexing orientations and scintillating silhouettes. However, for AW22 Goom’s collection wasn’t made up of
Lanvin: Ready-To-Wear AW22
What could Art Deco and Ancient Egypt possibly have in common? Lanvin has the answer. For its autumn/winter 2022 collection, the heritage fashion house drew from the defining aesthetics of the aforementioned, simultaneously nostalgic and modern. While a cat’s head
Sacai: Ready-To-Wear AW22
This season, Sacai took a new look at layering. Picture this: a classic white button up served as the base of a belted, double-breasted blazer (sans-sleeves), that hung over leather-look leggings with an asymmetric chiffon skirt underlaid for an overwhelming
Valentino: Ready-To-Wear AW22
Think pink! That was the message from Pierpaolo Piccioli who dedicated the majority of his show to a particularly vivid shade of fuchsia. He worked with Pantone to create Pink PP, and designed almost every look in the notice-me colour.
Schiaparelli: Ready-To-Wear AW22
“One of my favourite things about working in fashion is that a single spell of creativity can inspire the efforts of dozens of people and result in months of execution. Last fall, on the eve of opening our first permanent
Balenciaga: Ready-To-Wear AW22
Demna nearly cancelled his Balenciaga show in the wake of the war in Ukraine. In a time like this he reasoned, “fashion loses its relevance and its right to exist.” Add to that, the 1.5 million people who have, so
Andreas Kronthaler for Vivienne Westwood: Ready-To-Wear AW22
It's not every day you get to sit on a table beside Vivienne Westwood at a Vivienne Westwood show. The great Dame of British fashion clapped, cheered and snacked on a pastry as she watched Andreas Kronthaler's latest collection for
Hermès: Ready-To-Wear AW22
Like a homecoming, Hermès traded on its equestrian history with a collection that trotted out at the Garde Republicane, as horses in stables surrounded the outside of the show space. Nadege Vanhee-Cybulski’s AW22 collection for the house was inspired by