This Fall-Winter 2016-2017, a breath of inspiration straight out of Japan guided this designer duo towards the rich and varied use of a wave motif. They became sensorial upon contact with a fur that’s been worked into a modernization of 70s style, paired with a number of Victorian silhouettes. These waves are engraved in a...
The Tod’s runway opened up with an ode to leather through a performance by Vanessa Beecroft, setting the tone for the coming winter. The artist imagined a living canvas featuring, in addition to the brand’s historic artisan Toni Ripani in a white blouse, an array of models including one of the most “in” top models...
This Fall/Winter 2016, a breath of inspiration straight out of Japan guided this designer duo towards the rich and varied use of a wave motif. They become sensorial upon contact with a fur that’s been worked into a modernization of 70s style, paired with a number of Victorian silhouettes. These waves are engraved in a...
Emilio Pucci as seen by Massimo Giorgetti makes for a subtle, urban, and energetic interpretation of the Tuscan brand’s archives. For his second collection with Pucci, Giorgetti is fusing prints, cuts, and superpositions to arrive at a decidedly geometric line. Within his game of superpositions, the Italian designer is able to dazzle with a Fall/Winter...
Miuccia Prada is today completing a project that she began more than 20 years ago – 20 years now that the brand’s creative director has been playing with the art of unexpected matchings, bringing “bad taste” into the upper ranks of couture with a conscious degree of freedom. It’s by signing off on her “Premonitions”...
Military garb: coats fit for a soldier or an aviator, or officer pants… rock ’n’ roll outfits straight out of a Bowie-esque wardrobe: sequined dresses, studded boots, or a handbag complete with guitar strap… trenchcoats cut in every fabric… this is how Burberry’s Fall/Winter 2016 runway was summed up. There’s no doubt that Britain is...
What with his colorful style, Alessandro Michele is literally bringing Gucci aesthetics back to life. Resolutely audacious, grandly exuberant, generously colored, the runway show lifted the curtain on a style that genially oscillates between affirmed androgyny and contemporary romanticism. In charge since January 2015, Gucci’s creative director is signing off on next winter as a...
A brand without a creative director is no inconsequential matter. Serge Ruffieux and Lucie Meier, who’ve taken over on an interim basis, therefore wasted no time in diving into the heart of Monsieur Dior’s archives to maintain the brand’s post-modern couture allure as initiated to perfection by Raf Simons. The gardens of the Musée Rodin...
Could Massimo Giorgetti be bringing Emilio Pucci’s fashion house towards a more urban look, renegade yet refined? It was a collection with heavy aesthetics and imposing fabrics that went down the runway in Milan this January, with the mantra of “new rules to break the diktat”. This no longer fits into Emilio Pucci’s telltale lightly...
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...
