London - As is the case with most fashion weeks, the assemblages seen on the runway are best analysed, layer by layer, as there are so many styles and themes presented to make sense of what designers propose. There is a collective individualism to fashion this decade, where the options are never-ending and an anything-goes-attitude surpasses...
8 Oct 2015
Fashion week always ends on a high note, not because it marks the end of four weeks, four cities and hundreds of shows and most editors are no longer compos mentis, but because the month-long catwalk season finishes in Paris, the city where the world's most beautiful clothes are seen on the runway. Spring Summer 2016 was a particularly strong...
Whether you love or loathe Hedi Slimane's transformation of the Yves Saint Laurent brand, you cannot deny its impact on contemporary fashion. The house has been revived more than just economically with Slimane's interpretations of contemporary youth culture and is currently thriving. Other fashion brands are not churning out the same of rate of...
6 Oct 2015
Milan fashion week started off boldly, with Gucci paving the way for a season that will see a new romanticism alongside a maximalist take on colour, pattern and extravagent embellishment. Analysing the catwalk collections, what emerged were key materials such as fluid sheers and layered transparencies, mostly cut in voluminous trails; bold...
30 Sept 2015
London Fashion Week consistently delivers on innovation, and this season seemed especially relevant with an inaugural location in Soho's Brewer Street Car Park. There was modern romance, 90s references, Victoriana, modernism, high brow and lo-fi, and without attaching a label to London Fashion Week it is best described as an eclectic culmination...
23 Sept 2015
New York Fashion Week got off to a directional start with Givenchy's spring summer 16 presentation, setting the tone for an eclectic and innovative fashion week. On the whole, collections were aimed at a wider and commercially focused market, but there was plenty of fashion forward presence and innovation. Fabrications Sport luxe is embedded in...
21 Sept 2015
London - Givenchy's crossing the pond for New York Fashion Week was never going to be a quiet happening. But it wasn't solely the history of September 11 that inspired the French fashion house to make the journey, it happened to be perfect timing to open Givenchy's new boutique on Madison Avenue and to celebrate creative director's Riccardo...
12 Sept 2015