PFW AW14: Alexis Mabille
Mabille will always be a designer’s designer, but thanks to a run that he continues to sustain, he can take or leave current illusions of easy breezy glamour, this season he’s taken it, and by Jove, I think he’...
PFW AW14: Viktor & Rolf
Viktor Horsting and Rolf Snoeren’s grey matter was positively stirring today in Paris, with an ode to their infatuation for the slate v-neck, and don’t think for a second that this would make way for a dull col...
PFW AW14: Roland Mouret
Roland Mouret has attempted to eschew a few conventions this season and his integrity has shone through his looser AW14 silhouettes and in honouring the genuine (couture) article, he claims, “We could get them ...
PFW AW14: Nina Ricci
Peter Copping, heritor appropriate at Nina Ricci, who, going by the splendid throng of garments this season, fits into the feminine mould quite impeccably, provisioning the kind of heart and soul that the label...
PFW AW14: Balmain
For Olivier Rousteing this season doing what one does best is a noble gesture, something which designers should, by all means, always aim to sustain more often, henceforth, Balmain’s formidable jungle warrior e...
PFW AW14: Vionnet
It was “tulipomania” at Vionnet this season, almost to the extent of that great Dutch tulip bubble of 1637, almost. Nonetheless, it’s clear that Goga Ashkenazi wants to syphon the horticultural motif into the V...
PFW 2014: Dries Van Noten
For a man who claims to not worry about creating unwearable art, Dries Van Noten’s Autumn 2014 collection elevates wearable pieces to refined art. Practically on the eve of his show opening in the Musée des Art...
PFW AW14: Corrie Nielsen
A fixed presence at London Fashion Week for the past six seasons, Corrie Nielsen chose to debut her latest collection in Paris for AW 2014. Inspired by the arts and literature, the US-born, UK-trained designer ...
MFW AW14: Giorgio Armani
Grey - classic, clean, but in the wrong hands it can easily become bland, and this season Giorgio Armani made the decision to base his whole collection upon the run-of-the-mill hue, fabric wise, he chose, above...
MFW AW14: Dsquared2
Today, Dean and Dan Caten committed their fatale females to an asylum, á la Girl, Interrupted on steroids – exceedingly glamorous, gleefully glittering, fashion steroids, that is. Currently going through a chic...
MFW AW14: Salvatore Ferragamo
Massimiliano Giornetti, the creative director of the Italian institution in question, each season faces the task of guiding the style development of Salvatore Ferragamo and the time-honoured brand’s numerous pr...
MFW AW14: Trussardi
There will always be something about leather, something so intrinsically rebellious, even virile if you will, and decidedly, something so Trussardi. Today in Milan, Gaia Trussardi begun the AW proceedings by st...
MFW AW14: Roberto Cavalli
Circling a searing ring of fire like the concubines of Dante’s Inferno yesterday in Milan, Cavalli fuelled his inflamed spitfires of AW14 with a deadly Italian glamour, recollecting the vampish femininity of th...
MFW AW14: Uma Wang
In a collection that depicted traditional Eastern design, Uma Wang’s AW14 show for Milan Fashion Week debut on Saturday night. Featuring oversized long robes, mixed with clashing patterns and a wide colour pale...
MFW AW14: Bottega Veneta
Who wears the trousers at Bottega Veneta? After this season, nobody, just creative director Tomas Maier for one, who dictated an AW15 sans trouser, undoubtedly embracing a new functional femininity with a confi...
MFW AW14: Versace
On Friday night in Milan, Versace comrades in arms took their place on the stately catwalk, advancing from Donatella’s palatial kingdom behind ornate baroque gates, opened not by Saint Peter, but by a pair of s...
MFW AW14: Moschino
Simply Moschino, simply Scott. Jeremy Scott that is, the man who was taken on by the iconic house last October due to an unmistakable knack that would hopefully see the audacious designer successfully reinterpr...
MFW AW14: Fendi
The main fixture of Fendi’s AW14 presentation, Cara Delevingne – Lagerfeld’s darling – was the first fur-clad Fendi vixen to take to the catwalk today in Milan, and with her, she brought a novel gimmick, state ...
MFW AW14: Alberta Ferretti
“A metamorphosis of nature and woman” – the words Alberta Ferretti used to describe to her AW14 offering, and if a metamorphose can be understood as the distinct transition from one initial stage to an increasi...
LFW AW14: Apu Jan
Channelling the theme of Turbulence, Apu Jan showcased his latest collection for London Fashion Week at Freemasons hall last Sunday. The Taiwanese designer conveyed this by producing a compilation that mixed bo...
LFW AW14: Barbara Casasola
An impressive zen-like set, designed by scenographer Mathias Renner, became the abode for the Casasola woman yesterday at her second LFW show in King’s Cross, serving up a kind of tranquil interior paradise, ba...