PFW SS20: Miu Miu

SUSTAINABLE art transcends form in Miu Miu’s SS20 collection debut at PFW. Taking over the Palais d’léna, the Italian house joined forces with Dutch urban architecture and design group, OMA, to create a space f...

PFW SS20: Louis Vuitton

LA BELLE Époque, translated into English as The Beautiful Age, was the main source of inspiration for the Louis Vuitton SS20 collection. Reimagined in an almost futuristic setting, the backdrop reflects the nua...
PFW SS20 Chanel

PFW SS20: Chanel

WEAVING through zinc-plated, chimney-ridden Parisian rooftops, models showcased Chanel’s SS20 collection for PFW in a performance of high fashion – with one very unexpected interruption. This collection was ...

The Ideal Home Made to Measure

Even if you aren’t particularly aesthetically inclined, there will be parts of the home that you wish you could tweak – that gap between the store-bought shelves, the empty sloping space could just about fi...

SS20 PFW: Alexander McQueen

WITHIN a stripped down warehouse sweeping melodies of British composer Isobel Waller-Bridge gently signal the start of Alexander McQueen’s SS20 collection at PFW. Performed by the London Contemporary Orchestra,...
PFW SS20 Valentino

PFW SS20: Valentino

PURITY and extravagance defined Pierpaolo Piccioli’s SS20 for Valentino at PFW. The show began with white clouds of cotton poplin, shaped into shirt dresses, before morphing into a rainbow of colour and pattern...

PFW SS20: Balenciaga

VERY recently the news broke that, in a highly gutsy move, Georgian designer Demna Gvasalia was leaving Vetements, the brand that propelled him to fashion stardom, to concentrate on his efforts at Balenciaga, t...

PFW SS20: Comme Des Garcons

AMORPHOUS. Overblown. Impossible to decipher. Such vocabulary has always been tethered to Rei Kawakubo's Comme des Garçons creations, that has references which often elude even those initiated into fashion circ...
PFW SS20 Hermes

PFW SS20: Hermes

UTILITARIANISM was a resounding feature of the Hermès SS20 collection for PFW. Strong, more masculine silhouettes were reinforced with practical buckles and fashioned from robust leather. It was always a giv...

PFW SS20: Vivienne Westwood

VIVIENNE Westwood could be summarised – if the British fashion house could be at all summarised in a sentence – with her own words, “I'm the proof – you can't throw away tradition.” This belief in reinventing t...
PFW SS20 Celine

PFW SS20: Celine

DRIVEN by a desire to create a more accessible Celine, Hedi Slimane’s work has a distinctly youthful and slightly indie feel to it, and his SS20 collection for PFW was no different. The new era of Celine has lo...

PFW SS20: Loewe

ONE OF fashion’s greatest qualities is its ability to transport its viewers and wearers into another world, transcending reality and all its troubles. Yesterday, at the Maison de l’UNESCO in Paris, Loewe’s Jona...

PFW SS20: Rick Owens

ENTERING into a realm of fairytale meets grim modern-day political tension, Rick Owens evokes and references authoritarian politics in his SS20 collection. Creating almost-cyber like women, the collection is in...