NYFW SS15: Tommy Hilfiger
Sometimes, obvious works. Tommy Hilfiger called on the gods of classic rock and roll for his SS15 Ready to Wear collection, and they answered. As Sgt Pepper screamed from a mod cap topping a pants suit, and bri...
NYFW SS15: Libertine
As the Libertine SS15 Ready to Wear show ran, social media pulsed. As it closed, better, threw a cast party, perhaps, is the better phrase - fashion voyeurs “liked” the images frantically. Frantic pulsing might...
NYFW SS15: LIE SANG BONG
Man-about-Seoul Lie Sang Bong is an expert cross-industry collaborator and reigning Korean design king. Designing for nearly 20 years, he's an established commercial fashion entity. Contradictory to the expecta...
NYFW SS15: DKNY
Always grounded in Gotham, Donna Karan’s DKNY SS15 Ready to Wear collection stomped down the runway and into the streets. Some might say the bold prints might not translate to the real New Yorker, but their bla...
NYFW SS15: Richard Chai Love
Richard Chai’s 10-year anniversary show paired his Love and Men’s lines with his almost stereotypical New Yorker’s ease. Fluidity bounces against draping and then bumps up next to meticulous formal and informal...
NYFW SS15: Creatures of the Wind
Shane Gabier and Christopher Peters don’t show collections that scream “we’re the darlings of the fashion industry.” They present thoughtful, playful, and witty turns of phase - in textile and structure. Even c...
PFW AW14: Shiatzy Chen
Sometimes simple works. Shiatzy Chen’s Autumn 2014 Ready to Wear collection’s strength is in its simplest pieces. Its rainbow palette is so simple that a child can see its grouped colors move through the line. ...
PFW AW14: Leonard
Like the remakes of classic movies, this is the era of rebuilding classic fashion houses. With the Léonard Fall 2014 Ready to Wear collection, Yiqing Yin attempts what her two predecessors in as many ...
PFW AW14: Kenzo
Carrying through motifs from their S/S 2014 collection, Kenzo designers Carol Lim and Humberto Leon also continued their honorable collaboration with the Blue Marine Foundation (BLUE). Autumn jackets, belted o...
PFW AW14: Junya Watanabe
If Junya Watanabe is still creating each collection “from zero,” as he claimed in a recent article, and opts to let us see his clothing as our own minds will, his Autumn 2014 Ready to Wear collection gives us ...
PFW AW14: Haider Ackermann
If the runway show were to start with the finale, and we saw a collection in its entirety to start, we might describe Haider Ackermann’s Fall 2014 Ready to Wear collection as “monastic”. True, there are plenty ...
PFW AW14: Yang Li
Branded as a technician, working and reworking fit and structure to create, Yang Li presented an ambitious, structural collection for Fall 2014 Ready to Wear. Dotted with commercially viable menswear ...
PFW AW14 : Maison Martin Margiela
Sleek, fluid tweed strode down the Maison Martin Margiela AW 2014 Ready to Wear runway. The collection was by far not entirely in grandpa’s fabric, but the design team used Harris Tweed (in name and in pattern)...
PFW AW14: Ann Demeulemeester
Perhaps the best thing about rock and roll fashion is its sheer ambiguity. Except for its notable edge, mens’ and womens’ wear cannot be differentiated. A rocker T is a rocker T, and a black leather jacket with...
PFW AW14: Rick Owens
He may not claim it, and perhaps he’d shy away from it, but Rick Owens’ AW 2014 Ready to Wear collection draws from the most esteemed of American cultural icons. The proverbial American in Paris, Owens seems to...
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...
NYFW: Tommy Hilfiger Fall 2014 RTW
For a generation that’s done grunge to the max, even playing Smashing Pumpkins as first songs at their weddings, GenXers could find Tommy Hilfiger’s Fall 2014 Ready to Wear collection a repeat of their American...
NYFW AW2014: A Détacher Ready to Wear
Mona Kowalska cares about structure. She cares about how clothes feel. She has – in the best of ways – no ambitions for her A Détacher line to be a large, mass market label, preferring to stay in cont...
New York Fashion Week: Cynthia Rowley Fall 2014 RTW
Perhaps a deliberate contrast to the sugary launch of her sweets and accessories emporium CuRious Candy, Cynthia Rowley’s Fall 2014 Ready to Wear collection is a structured, dark venture into a bygone era. The ...
Paris Fashion Week: Givenchy Spring 2014 Ready to Wear
Riccardo Ticsi, like others this season, turned to ancient cultures for inspiration for his Givenchy Spring 2014 Ready to Wear collection. Pop culture humor from seasons past certainly grinned sweetly from the ...
Paris Fashion Week: Alexander McQueen Spring 2014 Ready to Wear
Sarah Burton was true to her stated inspiration, Modernism, with her Alexander McQueen Spring 2014 Ready to Wear collection. The movement played with new form and eschewed the idea of a Creator designing the wo...