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...
Next season, one of the “Antwerp Six” is tacking a profusion of motifs onto his clothing. This powerful exuberance is found on strictly tailored jackets, sequined bras, glimmering pants, or tops that flaunt their finesse. Once more Dries Van Noten is pursuing and exhibiting his passion for rich traditional fabrics like jacquard, brocade, and silk;...
Balmain likes to flaunt that there are no standards: “Women aren’t just coat racks, they have character!” Spring/Summer 2016 was the perfect occasion for the brand’s creative director to call on his Balmain Army to prove it. Doutzen Kroes, Gigi Hadid, Joan Smalls, Allesandra Ambrosio, and Kendall Jenner… all of them have incarnated the face...
“In the digital era, we live through our screens, through turning the present moment into images. We don’t look anymore, we film. We don’t listen anymore, we record. And we don’t talk anymore, we download,” argues Alber Elbaz backstage of his runway. It’s only logical then that he wanted to turn the Lanvin woman into...
It’s in the tranquility and intimacy of her workshop in the 1st arrondissement of Paris that Bouchra Jarrar presented her Spring-Summer 2016 collection. This collection is composed like a wardrobe of essential and classic pieces, where masculine and feminine elements become one. The founder of the eponymous brand is putting a functional and wearable fashion...
The collection presented in Milan was one in movement – a collection whose key words were spontaneity and quality. In this vein, put forth by Andrea Incontri, each segment, each look seems imbued with a desire to create fluid movements, elongated by sensual steps. Leather becomes as bright as silk when it composes a liberally...
Madame Vionnet herself would have approved of the Spring/Summer 2016 collection presented in Paris: highbrow, pure, simple, and authentic, the looks that went down the runway revived a vision that transcends the eras. Their founder, deceased in 1975, was profoundly revolutionary and, like every revolution, took ancient times as a starting point to magnify her...
The minimal brutalism of Fall/Winter 2015 is no more. This time around Fendi brought out a refreshingly colorful neon collection in Milan. As the Fendi women imagined for next season advanced down the runway, a whole intricate game of shapes, whether balloons or balls, played out as a nod to female costuming of the 16th...
Inspired by nature, Alessandro Michele came out with a collection that oozes controlled eccentricity. Michele deploys his vision of Gucci heritage within an imagination and a poetry that takes on the aesthetics of the 70s with wise and unpretentious emotion. The Gucci woman this time around looks like a girl that’s conscious more of her...
Karl Lagerfeld is against retro – no nostalgia in sight for Fendi’s runway this season. Taking care to eschew the 70s vibe that was omnipresent during Milan Fashion Week, the Kaiser came out with a collection oozing in graphic creativity. From a succession of styles emanated a desire to anchor this ninety-year-old brand into a...
