This is Natacha Ramsay-Levi’s first collection as creative director for Chloé – it’s also the first time a Frenchwoman has been at the head of creation since Martine Sitbon in 1988. After getting her start at Balenciaga and Louis Vuitton in the Nicolas Ghesquière era, now Natacha Ramsay-Levi is giving us an exquisitely sensual collection...
Coco Chanel left behind her a brand, treasures, mysteries, and a plethora of symbolic objects. For Fall 2017, Chanel is releasing a line of jewelry filled with charms and other of the Mademoiselle’s favorite things. These small pieces of her story are brought together with the talents of metalworkers for the first time to bring...
At the Trianon last week, Humberto Leon and Carol Lim introduced what seems to be their justified fantasy vision of Japanese theater. Dubbed Collection Memento No. 2, it introduces the Kenzo look for Spring/Summer 2018 like an ode to travel – a tale founded on that of the founder Kenzo Takada, originally from Himeji but...
With a front row hosting the brand’s ambassador Novak Djokovic, Caroline de Maigret, Aymeline Vallade, Guillaume Canet, and Marie-José Perec, Lacoste made a much-awaited comeback to Paris. After 14 years at New York Fashion Week, the brand’s current creative director Felipe Oliveira Baptista created a collection that ties together the two extremities of the exotic...
The fashion imagined for so many years by Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé is chock full of iconic pieces. If there’s one thing that never ceased to inspire this great brand, it’s Paris and the Eiffel Tower. For his second runway at the head of Saint Laurent, Italian designer Anthony Vaccarello set up the...
For Spring/Summer 2018, the Hogan woman becomes an Urban Gypsetter – a fashion citizen who joyfully mixes urban style with a Bohemian touch. It’s in this vein that the brand has always anchored its activities. The history of the legendary H222 sneaker, the very same one that brought sneakers into the realm of “it” pieces,...
Karl Lagerfeld and Silvia Venturini Fendi presented a colorful collection in Milan, and a bold one at that! A special triangulation is immediately apparent: a fabric, organza; a motif, crossed stripes borrowed from tartan; and a tropical palette. The starting point for this Spring/Summer 2018 is Italian futurism, an artistic movement that seeks to depict...
The Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea looked like the seaside last week. For their runway, Tod’s brought the scent of days past onto the airy mountainous slopes of the Italian peninsula. Diego Della Valle understands this Italy as being venerated and enchanted, just like the filmmakers and actors that have ceded to its grandeur. The beauties on...
Within a pop art decor, Miuccia Prada went back to the very essence of her realm of activity last week. By giving a voice to, or rather, by covering the walls of her runway with comic books made by women going back to the 40s, Prada drew their line in the sand. “We undertook a...
The Spring/Summer 2018 season is making way for a maximum interpretation of Gucci codes. Ever since Alessandro Michele took over as head of creation, the label has once more become synonymous with opulence and extravagance – a kaleidoscopic wardrobe that spreads its delight far beyond the front row. For this new season, the creative...
