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...
Emilio Pucci as seen by Massimo Giorgetti makes for a subtle, urban, and energetic interpretation of the Tuscan brand’s archives. For his second collection with Pucci, Giorgetti is fusing prints, cuts, and superpositions to arrive at a decidedly geometric line. Within his game of superpositions, the Italian designer is able to dazzle with a Fall/Winter...
Miuccia Prada is today completing a project that she began more than 20 years ago – 20 years now that the brand’s creative director has been playing with the art of unexpected matchings, bringing “bad taste” into the upper ranks of couture with a conscious degree of freedom. It’s by signing off on her “Premonitions”...
Military garb: coats fit for a soldier or an aviator, or officer pants… rock ’n’ roll outfits straight out of a Bowie-esque wardrobe: sequined dresses, studded boots, or a handbag complete with guitar strap… trenchcoats cut in every fabric… this is how Burberry’s Fall/Winter 2016 runway was summed up. There’s no doubt that Britain is...
What with his colorful style, Alessandro Michele is literally bringing Gucci aesthetics back to life. Resolutely audacious, grandly exuberant, generously colored, the runway show lifted the curtain on a style that genially oscillates between affirmed androgyny and contemporary romanticism. In charge since January 2015, Gucci’s creative director is signing off on next winter as a...
“The very essence of haute couture is to create the extraordinary out of the ordinary.” This is how the runway’s guide laid out the collection’s underlying connecting thread. This light and fantastical collection also reminds us that fashion is even more fabulous when it reinvents the ordinary doings of us humans! This time, Bertrand Guyon...
Haute couture doesn’t capture time, it rather traces around its fantasized outlines. It’s with this idea in mind that Karl Lagerfeld chose to celebrate nature through an art that incarnates the apogee of pure artifice: to reinterpret a century-old classic, the creative director of the double-C brand took an environmental approach. “It’s amusing to do...
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...
A brand without a creative director is no inconsequential matter. Serge Ruffieux and Lucie Meier, who’ve taken over on an interim basis, therefore wasted no time in diving into the heart of Monsieur Dior’s archives to maintain the brand’s post-modern couture allure as initiated to perfection by Raf Simons. The gardens of the Musée Rodin...
Could Massimo Giorgetti be bringing Emilio Pucci’s fashion house towards a more urban look, renegade yet refined? It was a collection with heavy aesthetics and imposing fabrics that went down the runway in Milan this January, with the mantra of “new rules to break the diktat”. This no longer fits into Emilio Pucci’s telltale lightly...
