Rick Owens: Ready-to-Wear SS21
How should we dress is dystopian times? As his models strode through the smoke in the monumental piazza of the Venice Lido casino, Rick Owens served his answer. Dressed in various states of dark, pagan warrior chic, atop towering platforms
Y/Project: Ready-to-Wear SS21
It was back in July, during the first-ever Digital Paris Men's Fashion Week, when Glenn Martens first introduced his live lookbook concept. Instead of opting for an obscure fashion film, or an audience-less catwalk, the designer simply brought members of
Balmain: Ready-to-Wear SS21
Olivier Rousteing thinks big and his Balmain show was epic. The designer celebrated 75 years of the brand with an ambitious, stadium-level, open-air production, held after-dark in the Jardin des Plantes. As well as a global social media audience, there was a
Kiko Kostadinov: Ready-to-Wear SS21
On a regular day, Laura and Deanna Fanning are inseparable. You will usually find the twin sisters shacked up in their studio, day-in, day-out, working on their latest womenswear collection for Kiko Kostadinov. Yet lockdown saw the two on opposite
Kenzo: Ready-to-Wear SS21
Optimism and pragmatism reigned supreme at Kenzo, where the talented Felipe Oliveira Baptista created a look that addressed Covid realities in soaring style. Inspired by bees, “the regulators of the planet,” and their fundamental relationship with mankind, Baptista based his
Dior: Ready-to-Wear SS21
Comfort ease and pragmatism – the principles guiding Maria Grazia Chiuri’s Dior are informed by the new normal. Lockdown changed our relationship to fashion. How things make you feel is just as important as how they look, reasons Chiuri. With
Marine Serre: Ready-to-Wear SS21
Marine Serre has seen the future and it’s scary. The Joan d‘Arc of fashion’s sustainability movement is setting an inspiring example for big brands and consumers alike. Encoded into everything she makes is a positive reason to change. Be more
JW Anderson: Ready-to-Wear SS21
Covid brings out the best in some creatives. JW Anderson first debuted his show-in-a-box concept in July, deep into lockdown. A clever way to give some of his remote audience something physical to experience, it worked a treat. Second time
Thebe Magugu: Ready-to-Wear SS21
For spring/summer 2021, Thebe Magugu got tactical. After setting up his own online shopping destination to combat store closings and order cancellations of his AW20 collection due to Covid-19, the designer began thinking more into the role clothes play in
MSGM: Ready-to-Wear SS21
On the final day of Milan Fashion Week, Massimo Giorgetti put his fearless gang of MSGM women in the hot seat. Time spent in isolation over the past few months offered the designer some room to rethink the codes MSGM
Valentino: Ready-to-Wear SS21
Set in the disused Fonderia Macchi, a former 1930s metal factory in north east Milan, Valentino’s creative director Pierpaolo Piccioli brought the brand home to Italy for the first time under his reign. Normally a stalwart of the Paris schedule,
MM6 Maison Margiela: SS21 Ready-to-Wear
The MM6 Maison Margiela team are fully embracing the working-from-home lifestyle. The brand's latest collection questions the corporate and embraces the domestic, reads the press release. Creating each of the looks remotely, the team began taking inspiration from their own
Giorgio Armani: Ready-to-Wear SS21
Is there a living fashion designer with more cultural impact than Giorgio Armani? In lieu of his usual Milan fashion show, the designer took over Italian state television for a special Armani night. He broadcast a 20 minute documentary on
A Conversation between Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons, Taken from Prada’s SS21 Showcase
It's not every day two fashion titans – both as big and influential – as Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons join forces in leading a mega-brand like Prada into the future. Despite not being able to celebrate their first joint
Versace: Ready-to-Wear SS21
There’s nothing quite so thrilling as a Versace catwalk show. High octane is a signature of this house, where understatement is not in the vocabulary. In a world that’s had its stuffing knocked out by a global pandemic, a little