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...
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...
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...
It’s in a biker spirit that Anthony Vaccarello, former creative director for Versus Versace, anchors the Versace woman for next season. Leather, metal, and medallions; this runway took place in a basement transformed into a night club, complete with a live gig! “Show now, buy now, wear tomorrow collection” is a marquis for the availability...
They say men are fanatics of the surrealism and strange, living in the rhythm of their vagueness, often very accommodating, they are UFOs … Like the magic of a biker jacket made of boiled leather, made famous by Rick Owens. Can we really believe in the American fashion designer eager worked materials, atmosphere, and extravagant notable film...
“We grew up within the company, among the looms, jumping on balls of yarn from Mongolia. After school, we imagined little knit collections for dad, who would present his own at fashion trade shows. Our game was a bonafide ritual. It became our profession.” Camilla et Carolina Cucinelli
Castleford. If this town in northern England sound familiar, it’s no doubt thanks to the Burberry trench. This is where the brand’s artisans take on the task of its creation. By combining traditional techniques and the latest technological advances, Thomas Burberry’s namesake brand continues to achieve the perfect composition that spawned one of the most...
“If I had to choose a model among all those that I presented, it would undoubtedly be the tuxedo. It appeared for the first time in 1966 with a transparent blouse and mens pants. And every year since, the tuxedo is present in my collections. This is sort of the label of Yves Saint Laurent.” Yves...
