The French brand called on designer Peter Saville – famous for founding Factory Records, and also for having designed the uniforms for England’s football team – to reinterpret their mythic polo for Lacoste’s 100th anniversary. But it’s the crocodile that he chose to alter by keeping the same size and shape. What amused him was...
AD: Alberta Ferretti, Model: Klara Boscic (Elite Milan), Look #7
Tartan was once the prerogative of Scottish men, used to make kilts or the wool blankets they threw around their shoulders as well as marking one’s belonging to a specific clan. The width, color, and space between the lines allowed the wearer to be distinguished by class. A tight-knit wool fabric, tartan was adopted by...
AD: Narciso Rodriguez, Model: Sasha Luss (Women Management), Look #14
In 1946, the BlueBook modeling agency organizes a parade at the Ambassador Hotel in Hollywood: Norma Jean wears a long dress color blue sky for parade filmed in color by Leo Caloia.
Red. The signature color of this Italian couture house, founded in 1959 by Valentino Garavani. Red is a lucky color in China, a symbol of fortune and joy. Like a courteous and audacious homage to the Middle Kingdom, the brand’s creative directors – Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli – are signing off on a...
A contemporary French female designer, she considered herself an artist rather and shows an incredible liberty of thought. Representative of the avant-garde movement and in constant collaboration with the genius Le Corbusier, her creed, the industry, is detectable even in her accessories. The numerous shots of Charlotte Perriand lounged on her famous Chaise-longue B306 show...
