On Friday, March 3 2017, Tod’s hosted celebrities in their Faubourg Saint-Honoré boutique for the launch of a collection that’s outside of all conventions. With a cocktail party/performance from tattoo artist Saira Hunjan, popular with the stars themselves, Diego Della Valle highlighted this interesting collaboration. Tattoos perfect this great artisanal tradition, with pieces from the...
“Monsieur Saint Laurent’s subversive approach to clothing”; it was on this note that the March 1st runway kicked off. Yves Saint Laurent was known to translate the energy of Parisian soirées and the turbulent jet-setter lifestyle into clothing that was full of fantasy, glamour, and androgyny. This is indeed subversion: masculine-feminine, bare breasts, 80s dresses…...
“I took inspiration from dance, poetry, lace, landscapes,” announced creative director for Lanvin Bouchra Jarrar. For her second season in this position, the French designer created a strictly monochrome line with iconic pairings and noble, atypical fabrics. A soft pastel pink, a dark blue, and strokes of green or purple all appear on shirts and...
Pucci boasts all the aristocratic chic of an Italian brand where Emilio Pucci, the label’s founder, dresses rich jet-setters from Ibiza to Marrakech. But that was before, or more precisely, before the arrival of Massimo Giorgetti at the head of the brand’s creative direction in 2015. Ever since, he has retaken the label’s iconic codes...
The originality of Gucci is back. Anchored in Italian tradition and lauding all the greatness of Gucci fashion, Alessandro Michele is unleashing his creativity through a Fall/Winter 2017-2018 line that brings men and women together for the first time with cinematographic airs. The label’s creative director continue to enrich his romantic partition with retro accents,...
In 128 looks, the Fall/Winter 2017-2018 collection presented in Milan bore witness to an abundance of inspiration. Within the group’s new headquarters, on a podium imagined with a plexiglass surrounding, like viewing glass separating the audience from a number of rare species, these 128 Gucci personalities opened a new chapter for next season called “The...
TAG Heuer first brought us the new Carrera Heuer-01 timepiece in 2015 – with 45 mm of diameter, this watch with a sporty and contemporary design was quickly able to find an eager audience. Today, the Carrera Heuer-01 is being presented in three slightly smaller versions: intense black, deep navy blue, and an elegant cognac...
Tod’s is conceiving of Fall/Winter 2017-2018 as the occasion to celebrate open air markets. By imagining a wardrobe made for charming and liberating leisure, the Tod’s woman becomes a wanderer next season. Composed as such, the silhouette is worked around the brand’s choice fabrics, perfecting leather upon contact with pragmatic cuts that are elegant but...
Within the ambient wake of her collections, Miucci Prada often appears as an intellectual designer. Her wardrobe does indeed say as much as a political speech – Queen of not all being what it seems, the creative director of the eponymous brand has already earned her pedigree when it comes to bringing the ugly or...
“I try to think like a woman with strength, getting together like in times of war, on all sides. We’re living through a very difficult moment. And frightening. I don’t know what the future will hold.” This is how Donatella Versace summed up the idea behind her collection. In the clothing, this is translated by...
