Givenchy is one of the big names in Parisian fashion – designer and friend of Audrey Hepburn, the original artist Hubert developed ultra-refined and mysterious collections with aristocratic lines. And so, perhaps to incarnate or rather capture the mystery of Givenchy’s creations, Ricardo Tisci has added an oversized agate stone to several of these looks....
“What do you have at breakfast?” “A camelia,” wryly responded Coco Chanel. While the anecdote may bring smiles, this woman’s passion for her camellias was no laughing matter. But where does this legend come from, the story of this lucky token? It’s said that everything started when, as a young girl, Gabrielle was swept off...
Carven. The brand founded by Carmen de Tommaso in the wake of WWII initially proposed a revival of a light and joyful spirit, giving meaning back to the phrase joie de vivre. Ever since, its aesthetic has been characterized through diverse associations each more ravishing than the next. This means motifs but also colors; lots...
“This piece took 194 hours to make” said the back of one of the pieces that went down the Vionnet runway in Paris. One thing is certain with Goga Ashkenazi’s new collection: the garment is precious, something to be worked but also to be understood. In perfect line with Madame Vionnet’s spirit, it seems that...
Finally, a woman designing for women! At Dior, Maria Grazia Chiuri is announcing: “I force myself to be attentive to the world and to create fashion that looks like the women of today, a fashion that will accompany them in their transformations to escape stereotypical categories of ‘masculine and feminine’, ‘young and not so young’,...
Amid tropical vegetation and a landscape of natural foliage, Balmain’s runway presented in Paris seemed to awaken the brand’s instincts. Taking a softer route towards nature, the Balmain army appears to want to cover themselves in the most beautiful things in the wild. “This collection is inspired by the unique strength of these women that...
Japanese-inspired, psychedelic, or faded, flowers have once more set the tone for Dries Van Noten’s Spring/Summer 2017 runway. When not captured in the huge blocks of ice set up around the catwalk by artist Azuma Makoto, these flowers imagined by Dries Van Noten sprang forth from pieces as if emerging from a bucolic daydream. “Dare...
The discreet and lesser-known partner, Andreas Kronthaler is presenting his second collection for Westwood. This label grew along with the punk movement; today that aesthetic seems to have become an integral part of the fashion landscape. That’s no doubt why Kronthaler preferred to work with perspectives and aesthetics that the brand has already explored. This...
On each of the seats at their Spring/Summer 2017 runway, Céline took care to deposit a quotation from American artist Dan Graham: “I want to show that our bodies are bound to the world whether we like it or not.” From one artist to another, Phoebe Philo seems to have wanted to show that fashion...
15 years; it’s been over 15 years that Nicolas Ghesquière has been dissecting the heritage of the brands confided to him in order to extract then introduce to the world a new conception of clothing. For Vuitton, Ghesquière has been pulling out all the stops for the past three years. Playfully combining his sci-fi aesthetics...
