It was a futuristic collection that went down the runway last week in Paris under the heading of Louis Vuitton – a collection composed like a fusion of the latest technical advancements coupled with the ancestral-savoir faire of Louis Vuitton artisanship. For the first time since his arrival at the head of the brand’s creative...
For next season, Kim Jones chose to put the allure of French dandy aesthetics front and center for her collection. Who better to incarnate this than Alexis aka the Baron Rédé? With little concern for celebrity, Alexis Rosenberg has lived in elegance and taste, with a pomp that is eminently seductive. This man was the...
Tod’s Band – Chapter One: The Wave Attitude. The Italian label surrounded itself with 15 personalities from the worlds of music, cinema, and photography – 15 female personalities each more inspiring than the next. By casting Langley Fox Hemingway, Julia Restoin Roitfield, or Quentin Jones and Sonia Sieff, Tod’s is highlighting 15 young women that...
Beneath their apparent softness, Dior’s innocents reveal a character of their own: without ever losing their manners, nor for that matter their sophistication, the beauties imagined by Raf Simons slip into quasi-experimental and yet ever so wearable garb. For tops and shorts, the designer took inspiration from the universe of Victorian lingerie, while in the...
It was a futuristic collection that went down the runway last week in Paris under the heading of Louis Vuitton – a collection composed like a fusion of the latest technical advancements coupled with the ancestral-savoir faire of Louis Vuitton artisanship. For the first time since his arrival at the head of the brand’s creative...
The minimal brutalism of Fall/Winter 2015 is no more. This time around Fendi brought out a refreshingly colorful neon collection in Milan. As the Fendi women imagined for next season advanced down the runway, a whole intricate game of shapes, whether balloons or balls, played out as a nod to female costuming of the 16th...
Gucci’s Spring/Summer 2016 runway took place in a warehouse transformed just for the occasion into a winter garden. The ground, covered with a printed moquette of flowers and snakes, was sprinkled with folding screens and upholstery. Michele wanted this decor to be just like his collection, inspired by a “situationalist derivative”, an amusing exercise that...
The creative duo at the head of Valentino remains loyal to their muse Marie Antoinette for next season. Inspired by 18th century style, but in a much subtler and more airy essence, Chiuri and Piccioli also opted to trace the style and preciousness of the famed Petit Trianon’s decor on their pieces; this was the...
It was love at first sight. One of the founding fathers of contemporary photography, David Bailey truly fell for this bag that has the soul of an icon: the Cape Bag by Tod’s. “For the first time in my career, a bag was the connecting thread in my work,” admits Bailey. And it’s true! Inspired...
