One thing is certain: next season, the Chloé girl isn’t afraid to claim her romanticism and exacerbate her femininity. But make no mistake: Chloé is elegant, a tad hippy, but with a down to earth spirit that mixes masculine and feminine. This is how Clare Waight Keller ends up slipping her into clothing with folkloric...
“The collection alludes to the world of drawing, sometimes exaggerated costumes fashioned by celebrated opera artists.” Angela Missoni is delivering a collection that’s enamored by Eastern influences; in her own words, “the ambiance reveals a charming young girl from Shanghai enamored by the Chinese tradition.” Imbued with audacity and graphic details, the designer is apposing...
When the iconic Milanese brand’s heritage meets the digital universe of the Twitter years, it gives way to a collection where the Versace label, reworked, reshaped, bequeaths geometric shapes and neon details to a number of garments. Loyal to her favorite tricks, Donatella is inventing a never-ending array of rock’n’roll pieces with the aim of...
It’s said that Peter Dundas took inspiration for his Fall/Winter 2015-2016 collection from his time spent watching the stars. It’s no doubt for this reason that he declared it to be a “very personal collection”. Indeed, from way up there among the brilliant orbs and the mysterious Milky Way, Dundas managed to come up with...
Dark, Klein, light, or iridescent, blue seems to be the key component of Armani’s runway show. A show where the refinement seems to be directly inspired by the 40s. In those days, Giorgio Armani was a child who, to escape the torment of a world at war, preferred to hide in the shadows of movie...
Very discretely, Karl Lagerfeld presented his 50th collection for Fendi last week: a collection with a little something special, as the pieces borrow their structured lines from the architecture of the Palazzo della Civilta Italiana. The analogy may be surprising, but in reality, the edifice is today home to Fendi. So forget about the past,...
A quotation from philosopher Giorgio Agamben awaited viewers on each seat in the viewing hall: “The ones who are really contemporary are the ones who neither perfectly coincide with their time nor adapt themselves to its demands… The Contemporary is that relationship with time in which we adhere to it through a disconnection.” Fittingly enough,...
The Fall/Winter 2016 collection leaves a considerable amount of space for unisex fashion as Vivienne Westwood goes back to her basics. A punk fashion show where oddball and eccentric make for fashion that’s as quirky as ever, heavily gleaned from punk culture. And just like only Vivienne knows how, Westwood offers a show full of...
From the hills of Sommerset, where the brand’s manufacturer has been based since its creation by Roger Saul in 1971, Mulberry distills an English spirit that lies between chic and fantasy the world over. Johnny Coca won’t take over as new creative director for the brand until next year. In the meantime, the team currently...
Punk has always influenced Alexander McQueen, and Winter 2016 is no exception. British designer Sarah Burton is offering a collection that’s in perfect harmony with the more casual line represented by the McQ label. A line that is perfectly adapted for women in search of urban and contemporary clothing. By applying all the relevant codes...
