This year, creative director Christopher Bailey imagined a collection inspired by poetry and British book covers from a century gone by. A mixture of genres and fabrics, Burberry surprises with a contrast between respect for tradition and sizable innovation. It’s a veritable mixture of genres: a multitude of materials and fabrics, notably pieces made of...
Ever since they were created, the brand hasn’t hesitated to innovate and revisit its moccasins. Whether made of black leather or entirely reembroidered with metallic silver pearls or snakeskin, the “Gommino” has been released in just as many classic shades as hallucogenic shades. It’s a pereptual renewal that reminds us that Tod’s is just as timeless...
For the Cruise 2015 runway, the talented Nicolas Ghesquière gave his models particularly hypnotizing shoes. Printed or laced styles that, done up to the knee, meet up halfway between Spartan and pumps. An almost lunar neo-sandal, devoid of any nostalgia, compliments printed pieces and small lacy dresses. It’s neo-sophistication in and of itself. Less of...
The first crocodile shirts appeared on the courts in the 30s. Success would soon follow, and the L1212 polo would become the brand’s mainstay piece. Today, the Lacoste polo is much more than a worldwide best seller. It’s the symbol of casual elegance, perfectly incarnating “easy chic”. It’s so appreciated that it has never ceased...
1926: the style invented by Coco Chanel went for the essential. The cut was simple, the sleeves long, and the length to the knees. This monastic character made the dress a revolutionary fashion piece, completely against the tide. 2014: the piece gains even more tact and coquettishness to be worthy of a distant Orient. For...
The Chanel collection in Dubai combines Western couture with Eastern inspirations. The result: rich and feminine outfits, fantastic and creative. Oriental art is worked in a contemporary, even futuristic way. An immediate challenge to one’s immediate perception arises upon seeing the handling of the fabric: clusters of pearls, tridimensional geometries, making for decomposed lines in...
“New York has become almost as familiar to me as Paris”, wrote Christian Dior in 1957 in his autobiography “Christian Dior & Moi”. The couturier did indeed have a long standing relationship with the United States. Today, in the hands of Raf Simons, the New Look that made Dior famous on the other side of...
Its arrival on the luxury market and the tidal wave it provoked forever changed this accessory’s destiny, and opened the way for the sacrosanct it-bag, despot of fashion houses and phantasmic completer of looks. The keywords for this Italian brand founded in 1925, devoted to fur, are iconoclasm, anti-establishment, the unconventional, celebrating Italian artisanship and...
