Gianni Versace was an out-of-the-ordinary couturier: this Italian knew how to make something beautiful, even sublime, out of something ugly. Following all that glitters, he was brought to create in close line with the style of Calabria, an Italian region located in the far Southeast of the peninsula. From this heritage, Gianni built the Versace...
In the Tod’s Band are Hugo Sauzay, architect and designer, Chinese top model Fey Wang, dancer Eric Underwood, musician Tara Ferry, or actor Alessandro Borghi. These 11 “Apollos” that form the Tod’s Band were captured in London through the lens of Luca Carrozzini in images centered around the Spring/Summer 2016 collection’s mainstay moccasin. Just like...
Christopher Bailey presented his vision of the Fall/Winter 2016 man on Monday as a mixture of genres orchestrated into the new Burberry collection. By signing off on a style that strikes the perfect balance of casual, sportswear, and military inspiration, the brand’s creative director is highlighting a madly elegant man whose tailoring is cut down...
With nine total chapters, this thematic journey, thought up and staged by Robert Carsen, opens with the brand’s supreme symbol: an ancient trunk, the sort no longer used in modern days, that once incarnated the emblematic codes and audacious spirit of Louis Vuitton. Indeed, ever since its founding, the brand has distinguished itself from its...
Christopher Bailey did more than just dig back in the brand’s archives this year to find the perfect formula for the era – for several seasons now, through constant reinventions of the brand’s codes, Bailey has today been able to bring the time-told trench as imagined by Thomas Burberry over a century ago back into...
Martha Norelius, American swimming champion, posed in one after her 1928 victory. Made of jersey or polyester, it was a get-up worn over the swimsuit to keep the muscles warm between training sessions. It soon became the athletic uniform, manufactured during the 20s and 30s by the founder of Le Coq Sportif, Emile Camuset. It...
Jean-Paul Gaultier was once a young boy in Bagneux, France who looked at his era through a set of generous, visionary eyes. Then Jean-Paul became Gaultier: a talented technician of cuts, an audacious colorist, capable of conceiving pieces as insolent as they are desirable. He created his classics by starting from a repertoire of insolence....
The Valentino look? Three words: delicate, elegant, and fluid. It’s in this vein that the duo Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pier Paolo Piccioli took over the artistic reins of the Valentino brand in 2008, under the direction of CEO Stefani Sassi. The history and success of Valentino is inextricably tied to Italy, la dolce vita,...
As time went by, hemlines would rise more and more. Skirts were called “mini” if they showed at least the knee and at most the buttocks. In the mid-60s, the English royal family declared that at court, skirts would have to fall at least 7 cm above the knee. Even though Princess Diana was in...
Opening Ceremony gets its name from the legendary Olympics opening ceremony. A name borrowed from something that itself is a metaphor for openness to the world, Opening Ceremony is out to conquer new cultures, mixing art with fashion with absolute modernness. The bicephalous creativity of this New York-based fashion house is enamored with the photographic...
