The 501’s fans have always been known for retouching their prized jeans, refining or rethinking their style with new cuts. And this season, Levi’s is refusing to let these style acolytes’ call go unanswered by releasing the new 501 CT. Starting with the original style, the brand reworked the body and, to definitively anchor the...
A very current couture, conceived especially to be worn, is where Bouchra Jarrar’s talent lies. Loyal to her très Parisian spirit, Bouchra Jarrar doesn’t resort to opulence or extravagance. “Strength and femininity – that’s the woman of today.” For summer 2015, she thought up an urban and chic haute couture, feminine and masculine, without ever causing a...
In the early 30s, Elsa Schiaparelli gave her outfits a touch of rebellion and fantasy, thereby contributing to the renewal of couture itself. For summer 2015, the Schiaparelli brand is redefining this theme in couture in the purest spirit of its founder, mixing Haute Couture, live performance, and collaborations with artists like Jean-Paul Goude. This...
“Time periods are confused.” Raf Simons has long refused to take inspiration from the past, with the pretext that nostalgia for a time gone by cannot satisfy a designer’s thirst for a future to be forged. And yet here he is, today recognizing all the beauty that the past century held. The artist has undertaken...
The iconic “zig-zag” motif first brought an Italian touch to the Bohemian elegance and the artisanal universe of Missoni in 1966. Ottavio and Rosita Missoni set up a workshop in their home in Gallarate, near Milan, to devote themselves to working with knits. The duo rediscovered “Rachel” machines, traditionally used to create the shawls worn...
No one doubted the good that John Galliano’s arrival would do for the Maison Margiela. Dubbed Artisanal, his first collection under the banner of Belgian couture highlights fabrics and other recycled pieces (that’s right, recycled) in an out-of-the-ordinary and magnificent vein that only Galliano could pull off. Without erring onto the side of tacky, the...
From the iconic camellia to Grasse roses, gardenias, violets, and irises that compose the fashion house’s mythic perfumes, the flower remains an element that is indissociable from the brand that Gabrielle founded. Karl Lagerfeld for his part receives his collections like a flash of inspiration, like a message received from an imaginary world, or simply...
In 1977, the Tod’s adventure began. While attending an auto rally in the US, the young Diego Della Valle, then 24 years old, developed a passion for the drivers’ shoes. These shoes, odd little moccasins equipped with rubber pebbles, would become the iconic Gomminos. 15 years after the sportswear wave, the president of Tod’s, known...
The 60s were a revolutionary phase in fashion design. The image of the woman borrowed from the 50s, with very clear forms, was thrown out in favor of a flat and more geometric silhouette. Traditionalists would hesitate to call him a couturier. He was nicknamed “the fashion bomber” or “the metallurgist”. Paco Rabanne was the...
The collection was called “Classically Bohemian“ by Burberry’s creative director Christopher Bailey. The man behind the concept has long been taken with the way Bohemians manage to turn the classics on their heads, but when it comes to introducing this effortless sleight of hand into Burberry’s legacy, the designer looks far and wide into distant...
