MARKING their return to the runway since the pandemic began, the Acne Studios SS22 collection homed in on the brand’s signature of experimenting, clashing historic and futuristic reference points in the process...
AFTER last season's runway show that was held in a drive-thru, the pressure was on for design duo Arnaud Vaillant and Sébastien Meyer to one-up arguably the show of Paris Fashion Week. Dedicating the previous c...
“HI! We’re Ottolinger!” reads the opening page of the Ottolinger SS22 press release. It’s a bold welcome. The double exclamation mark is widely understood as a professional no no, but Ottolinger are hardly the ...
AS DAY transitioned into night, the return of Anthony Vaccarello’s Saint Laurent to the Eiffel Tower marked the ultimate homecoming of Paris Fashion Week. But, this idea of coming back to the familiar stretched...
PARIS Fashion Week is back – bolder and better than ever. After the fashion world retreated to mainly digital showcasing for a year over the pandemic, the style set has returned to the front rows for SS22, with...
“FASHION is about more than draping fabric and making a profit, it can be a place where we are free to take meaningful action,” Marine Serre noted in the show notes for her SS22 collection titled Fichu pour Fic...
PRESENTED at the NEWGEN in partnership with TikTok event space at the Old Selfridges Hotel – the Yuhan Wang SS22 collection acted as an elegy to both the strength and vulnerability of women. Central Saint Mart...
THE Dsquared2 film presentation opens with models cloaked in the SS22 collection recklessly graffiti-ing plastic sheets in an abandoned warehouse. This scene perfectly set the mood for the “fairytale grunge” 3...
SET TO unveil the womenswear spring-summer 2022 collection, creative director Anthony Vaccarello is finishing off day two of Paris Fashion Week under the Eiffel Tower to present Saint Laurent’s new seasonal cre...
“WESTWOOD’s clothes force you to think,” says Alexander Fury in the introduction to the Vivienne Westwood Catwalk book. And oh how I thought when flicking through its glorious pages. It's a magical feeling to b...
EMPORIO Armani for Milan Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2022 created a 120 look collection. The collection boasts an extensive colour palette starting with various shades of navy and patchwork denim and finishing ...
GUESTS were invited via a wax-sealed, handwritten note from Donatella Versace to an “intimate creative experience”. The elusive invitation outlined the time (7:30 sharp) & the place (Donatella Versace’s pr...
RUNNING a mile away from the idea of “only strictly necessary”, Brunello Cucinelli has returned to Milan Fashion Week with the distinctive mindset to dress up. Bringing together influences from glamour, a conte...
WITH THE lines between fashion and art arguably blurred, creative director Bruno Sialelli took this opportunity to showcase the Lanvin fall-winter 2021 collection against a backdrop of contemporary art.
A fa...
THE WORD seduction has a multitude of meanings. From persuasion with the intention of leading astray, to false promises and the inevitable sexual connotations, the term goes beyond the verbal and into physical....
WALTER Chiapponi, known for his impeccable taste and sensual, feminine designs, brought a distinctively tomboyish feel to Tod’s this season. The Italian fashion house’s SS22 show, presented at Milan’s Contempor...
MATTHEW M Williams continues to make his mark on Givenchy with eye-popping new iterations of the French House’s signature 4G and Cut-Out bags.
Givenchy 4G bag
The 4G bag, a tribute to founder Hubert de Gi...
WE CAN'T praise Professor Augustinus Bader highly enough. That is why we are super-excited to announce that the master of stem-cell biological research has just launched a further two scientifically proven form...
THIS SEASON is all about rebirth. It is clear that designers are awakening into a new world, some are taking the roaring twenties approach fuelled with optimism and hope, while others are more realistic taking ...
THERE is an excitement in the Italian air. Maybe it’s the return to Milan Fashion Week, the sight of familiar faces or the buzz that Kim Jones is continually able to create surrounding his next collection. Thou...
IT IS about living in the present for Alberta Ferretti. It is what she believes is inherently feminine whilst remaining grounded to who you are. But during a time where predictability is far from reach, we have...