Hedi Slimane’s Celine show revives early 00s hedonism for TikTok age
Menswear show at Paris nightspot Le Palace draws on indie aesthetic, topped off by Libertines performanceIf it’s fashionable to be immersive, Hedi Slimane is à la mode. His menswear show for Celine...
View Article‘Women who break rules intrigue me’: Michael Kors channels Gloria Steinem
Steinem’s signature belt is key link in designer’s New York fashion week tribute to 1960s and 70s feminist iconsGloria Steinem may, for most people, be known as a key figure in feminism. But she is...
View ArticleSecondhand style strides forward in Oxfam’s London fashion week show
Pre-loved style pioneer Bay Garnett dresses stars in curated stock from Oxfam’s warehouse for LFW’s opening showThe first show to kick off London fashion week on Thursday night had all the usual...
View ArticleFashion needs to step up as UK is ‘in a paralysis’, says Jonathan Anderson
Designer urges industry to ‘say something’ and his London show will celebrate anti-establishment British cultureBritish fashion needs “to step up and say something” at a moment when the country is “in...
View ArticlePatchwork and pearls: London fashion week embraces folk heritage
Ireland was the theme for Simone Rocha, while Priya Ahluwalia soundtracks Nigerian-Indian collection“The idea of trends has always been alien to me,” the designer Simone Rocha said before her London...
View ArticleBurberry brings it back home with a twist at London fashion week
Tasked with making the brand pop again, new designer Daniel Lee delivered classic British style with a punk edge and eye-catching accessoriesThe stage seemed set for a homecoming to tug the...
View ArticleFendi designer pays tribute to female-led fashion powerhouse
This season Kim Jones zeroes in on Delfina Delettrez Fendi’s knack of making archive items look modernMale designers and their supersized egos have dictated what women wear for most of the past...
View Article‘Real jobs, real lives’: Prada turns uniforms into exquisite clothes
Utilitarian collection in Milan is elevated by details and haute couture references and tailoringMiuccia Prada has put the spruce, starched white crispness of nurses’ uniforms on to the catwalk at...
View ArticleArmani finery lauds ‘timelessness’ at Milan fashion week
Designer, 88, among many of city’s biggest names to mine archives in reverence to chic aestheticThe trend headline from Milan fashion week may be that timeless chic is in after Giorgio Armani closed...
View ArticleDior goes back to the 1950s as Paris fashion week opens
Fashion house upturns decade’s retrograde image with aesthetic of French muses The 1950s were much cooler than you think. That was the message as Paris fashion week opened with a Dior show that...
View ArticleKyiv-made: Litkovska brings chic clothes and Ukraine strength to Paris
Camel, toffee and charcoal feature in Ukrainian collection created under Russian bombsYou would never guess from the immaculate tailoring and finely turned silhouettes of the Litkovska collection shown...
View ArticleParis pays tribute to futuristic fashion of late Paco Rabanne
Designer Julien Dossena thanks maison’s founder, who died last month, for his ‘radical expression’In silver chainmail hoods and Perspex dresses, aluminium-foil suiting and gleaming white space boots,...
View Article‘I never think about trends’: Gabriela Hearst brings sustainability to Chloé...
Paris fashion week sees Chloé creative director balancing sustainability and fashionThe real passion of Gabriela Hearst, the creative director of the Parisian house of Chloé, is sustainability, not...
View Article‘Strength and femininity’: Victoria Beckham power dresses in Paris
Daughter joins designer while Harris Reed makes his Nina Ricci debut and Jonathan Anderson engineers emotionFor Victoria Beckham, rising to the challenge of a Paris catwalk show began at ground level...
View ArticleModels and robots share the runway at Coperni fashion show
Boston Dynamics’ canine automatons steal show in Paris as maison stages modern fable, designers sayWelcome to the age of the super-robot.With their impossible proportions, thousand-yard stares and...
View ArticleJust weeks after her death, Vivienne Westwood’s rule-defying spirit lives on...
Fashion designer’s widower and collaborator Andreas Kronthaler says new collection is his tribute to herLess than three months after the death of Vivienne Westwood, her widower and collaborator,...
View Article‘My clothes haven’t killed anything’: Stella McCartney says it with horses on...
British designer shows off striking outerwear and vegan bags made from grapes, apples and mushroomsStella McCartney opened her winter show not with pyrotechnics or a light display but seven dappled...
View ArticleShoulder pads and spikes are back as Paris calls time on comfort dressing
John Lewis has abandoned the floral midi; now fashion week designers have ditched puff sleeves and easy-care layers. It won’t make everyone happy …John Lewis is a byword for plain-speaking British...
View ArticleParis fashion week autumn/winter 2023: the highlights — in pictures
Sparkly pants, painterly prints and err pears, here are the highlights from Paris fashion weekContinue reading...
View ArticleMy attire this season? Anything unnoticeable | David Mitchell
Like TV journalist Michael Crick, I’m a fan of ties. But for precisely the opposite reasonLooking neutral can be a challenge. That’s my big take-away from LA fashion week. Did you realise it was LA...
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