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This was the next chapter in what we are calling his “Live Like Ralph” series. Last season we were hot-wiring with Ralph Lauren, this season we are holidaying with Ralph. And so we were gently lulled whilst waiting for the show

If you are a creative in the fashion industry, working with friends is always the best; they instantly get what you’re doing, will do whatever you ask without question, and the result always feels a little more personal. So for

Marie-Amélie Sauvé captioned it perfectly on an Instagram post, just: "Janaye walking into the future" next to a picture of the model on the Louis Vuitton catwalk, wearing a silver embroidered frock coat, beamed in from the 18th century and teamed with light

It never ceases to amaze us the craftsmanship and skill of the Thom Browne atelier; the fabrics are unique and sewn with such skill and designed with such panache and nowse it really is something to behold. Layering of tulle and the

In an age of imagery, where pictures have replaced words, the resulting glut of photographs and "virals", which imprint on us daily through social media, the best fashion brands are finding it increasingly more difficult to be seen and heard. The

After being grounded for smoking in her bedroom (again), young Miuccia was determined to meet her biker boyfriend that Saturday night. After pulling her gauze shift over her best geometric print blouse (fastened to the top - always) and pulling on

"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