PFW AW15: Louis Vuitton
As soon as the favoured girl Freja Beha Erichsen hit the runway in pointy leather boots with a big white buckle at Louis Vuitton’s AW15 show wearing a big white fur coat, resembling a polar bear or even the Yet...
PFW AW15: Valentino
The Valentino show for AW15 started off small and ended big. The black and white beginning was very minimal including the bare make-up of the models with only a hint of brown eye-shadow and hair clipped at the ...
PFW AW15: Stella McCartney
Stella McCartney has a knack for making everything look effortless. This season, she stresses that by using thick winter fabrics like wool in a delicate, swishy manner that belies their stiffer materiality. Str...
PFW AW15: Saint Laurent
Hedi Slimane did Madonna and her ‘80s era proud in his AW15 collection for Saint Laurent. Short dresses with a voluminous tutu skirt worn with a blazer, a biker or a bomber jacket and often ripped fishnet tight...
PFW AW15: Alexander McQueen
This season in Paris Sarah Burton’s reminiscent recollection of a very McQueen-ian Victorian romance was a safe bet to ensure another agreeable collection. For all the admittedly glorious grandiose touches, isn...
PFW AW15: Chanel
At Chanel this season Karl Lagerfeld’s interpretation of the lady of the maison was once again suitably and sometimes unconventionally app. Befitting her with all her accoutrements and gilt-edged buttons, ...
PFW AW15: Chloé
This season’s Chloé show seemed as if it started at one place and ended in quite another. Models with healthily glowing faces and naturally flowing hair walked down the runway in boots on a thick heel, with thi...
PFW AW15: Akris
Akris’ Albert Kreimier is perhaps one of the best examples of a designer who understands that minimalist chic doesn’t have to be all style and no substance. This season in Paris he accentuated his tricks of the...
PFW AW15: Hermès
Hermès AW15 outing this season didn’t just mean another line-up of infinitely chic garments it meant a new creative director, Nadège Vanhee-Cybulski, some more diverse sartorial ideas and the reeling in of time...
PFW AW15: Givenchy
Darkly romantic and resolutely Latino was Ricardo Tisci’s Givenchy female archetype this season. The fashion pack waited in ardent anticipation to see what the designer would present for AW and he certainly did...
Bally’s Wes Anderson-inspired AW15 collection
An attitude of nonchalance and retrospective eccentricity, as inspired by the films of Wes Anderson, provide the platform for Bally’s AW Women's collection.
Bally’s three principles of Innovation, Functi...
De Beers Infinity engagement ring collection unveiled
De Beers reveal the Infinity collection of engagement rings and bands. A combination of white diamonds, set in platinum from 0.7 carats.
De Beers Infinity band. White diamonds, se...
PFW AW15: Acne Studios
It doesn’t take long for Acne Studios to reveal where it is going with its AW15 collection. Two looks in, and there’s already a sheer top displaying the models’ chest, which reoccurs a number of times throughou...
PFW AW15: Balenciaga
Alexander Wang’s AW15 collection for Balenciaga this year took the house back to basics. Many of the pieces shown on the runway had a hint of some of original Balenciaga collections and paid homage to the origi...
PFW AW15: Vivienne Westwood
This week in Paris for AW15 we were reintroduced to the circus that is Vivienne Westwood. Models came down the runway wearing hats the mad hatter would kill for, and sporting make-up Frida Kahlo would be proud ...
PFW AW15: Elie Saab
When the lights dim and the first few looks of Elie Saab’s AW15 collection walk down the runway in Paris today, you can almost hear ACDC’s Back in Black playing in the background. Saab’s recent couture collecti...
PFW AW15: Maison Margiela
Paris Fashion Week continued today with Maison Margiela’s idiosyncratic take on AW. This show has been greatly anticipated because it was to be John Galliano’s first Ready-to-wear for Maison Margiela. The show ...
International Women’s Day is celebrated on March 8
International Women’s Day celebrates the economic, political and social achievements of women – past, present and future. For many countries, such as China, Russia, Vietnam and Bulgaria, the day is actually mar...
PFW AW15: Lanvin
Wafting a mistral of Moroccan memories, Lanvin AW15 was an amalgamation of North African and European influences. Uniting past with modern, Alber Elbaz, creative director of the luxury house since 2001, wanted ...
PFW AW15: Dries Van Noten
Rich and royal. That is how the Dries Van Noten’s AW15 collection can be described if one was allowed two words only. But, thankfully, here this is not the case. And so we can indulge in descriptions of Van Not...
PFW 2015: Anthony Vaccarello
Parisian chic came to the Wild West today with Anthony Vaccarello’s new AW 2015 collection. Taking inspiration from his frequent travels to the US, Vaccarello brought his quintessentially French point...