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Glancing back

  Scarcely a fortnight has passed since London Fashion Week ended. Yet, here we find ourselves in scurrying between prêt-à-porter shows in Paris after traveling back from a very impressive group of ...

PFW SS15: Hermes

After four years of collaboration with the luxe house, Christophe Lemaire presented his last show for Hermes with a SS15 sophisticated, classy collection. Neutral clean shades of white and cream on a sand co...

PFW SS15: Leonard

It’s always a delight to see fresh talent emerge from Paris’ roster of high fashion high clout fashion houses every season, going on to garner all the attention it deserves. This season, that accolade went to C...

PFW SS15: Elie Saab

Saab did not hold back as he opened the show with dramatic gowns that dominated the runway. In a duel of fire and water, sheer fabric mixed aquatic blue against burnt orange; representing an alliance of the ele...

PFW SS15: Louis Vuitton

Nicholas Ghesquière’s follow up to his all-eyes-on-Vuitton debut last season was just as ambitious. For SS15 he wanted his collection to brave the frontiers of worldy, artisanal creations, just with a little bi...

PFW SS15: Sonia Rykiel

Julie de Libran did Bardot on Mediterranean safari for her Sonia Rykiel debut, and then some. The debut turned out to be quite the fashion’y parade of quaint pieces that are sure to conserve the “lounge” dressi...

PFW SS15: Chanel

Lagerfeld is a master of doing things that’ll get people talking, mere hours after this season’s “I am woman hear me roar” Chanel’s show, it had taken over the internet. A bit like last season then. The man isn...

PFW SS15: Saint Laurent

The more we look at Slimane’s Saint Laurent, the more we realise how good he’s getting for the brand, and in our eyes, this isn’t just any brand you can pick up and drop after a collection or two. SS15 gave us ...

PFW SS15: Emanuel Ungaro

Let’s be honest, Ungaro is a house that’s come a long way since its founder’s heyday, and gone through a, ahem, strange journey since then. In the here and now, Fausto Puglisi is rightfully one of the most appr...

PFW SS15: Giambattista Valli

Giambattista Valli is a designer who likes to freight his designs with as much concept as crafting a single garment can take. This comes down to his couture backbone and because of this, he succeeds were others...

PFW SS15: Chloé

Chloé took summer frills to the fore in Paris with the type of flourishing textures that Milan couldn’t get enough of this season. We are of course referring to the spirit of the seventies that has been doing i...

PFW SS15: Givenchy

Once again this season, Tisci has tapped into the side of Givenchy that’s known for tis higher echelon of glamour, yes, finally, and don’t you think it’s about time he stuck to what’s best? Tisci’s Mk1 Givenchy...

PFW SS15: Akris

Akris is the one brand that can steep its designs in a bit of the theatric sass that fashion appears to be snubbing at the moment, while keeping it tethered to high-quality, thought-through oh-so wearable desig...

PFW SS15: Jean Paul Gaultier

Last night saw the swansong of a decade in Paris when the French wonder jester of fashion bid a moving farewell to ready-to-wear with all of the incroyable rumpus the designer has single-handedly purveyed since...

PFW SS15: Mugler

The once indomitable House of Mugler has taken its fair share of knocks in recent years while it’s been dragged back and forth through the brand identity crisis bush. It's not so much a matter of dissociative i...

PFW SS15: Rick Owens

Widely known for the ambiguous mysticism that is expressed through his designs, Rick Owens' SS15 at PFW played on the balance between purity and sensuality from the one side; asymmetry and geometry from the oth...

PFW SS15: Kenzo

Today at a Parisian skate park, Kenzo presented its androgynous-futuristic SS15 show. Giant video installations with girly avatar figures talking in multiple languages about the luxury brand, depicted the “evol...

PFW SS15: Maison Martin Margiela

Channelling an androgynous take on grunge fashion, Margiela introduced an air of casualness at PFW for SS15 and thrust it upon navy pinstripe suits. In a variety of styles, the staple suit was reinvented, from ...