A tour round Paris revealed a desire for artistic sophistication in fashion at Akris and Lanvin, mingled in with a little gracious storytelling at J.M. Weston and a dash of rebellion at Elie Saab.
Coperni, Gauchere, Ludovic de Saint Sernin, and Isabel Marant returned to Paris Fashion Week on Thursday with a certain light-hearted spirit while mixing classic winter outfits with much sexier and unbridled looks.
Disparity and how it generates great fashion was the thread of the latest collection by Yohji Yamamoto, a blend of denim and 18th-century style. While Alexandre Vauthier served up a lesson in how to 'decline' fashion.
Contrasts and contradictions; incongruities and juxtapositions in a brilliant show and riveting collection for the house of Loewe by Jonathan Anderson, presented Friday morning, the mid-point of Paris Fashion Week.
With war clouds darkening all of Europe, one witnessed a moment of grace and grandeur at Rick Owens Thursday evening in Paris, as an ethereal cast emerged out of clouds - statuesque, solitary and sensational.
All about creative women in Paris within the last 48 hours in Paris, with four diverse collections by female designers, addressing the strong and dynamic as well as the more romantically inclined.
A unlikely yet dramatically exuberant collection from Dior this season where Maria Grazia Chiuri blended novel garment technology and a fresh vision of women by great Renaissance master painters.
The New York-based brand and the French LVMH Prize finalist presented two irreverent and dynamic collections as they opened Paris Fashion Week in a current context tinged by the war in Ukraine.
The Fédération de la Haute couture et de la Mode, French fashion’s governing body, has issued a call for collective emancipation across our societies, as demands emerged to ban Russian designers from Paris catwalks.
Pandemonium ruled outside the Off-White show in Paris on Monday evening, hundreds of fans roaring as in walked Rihanna and A$AP Rocky. But on the catwalk there was the distinct sense of a washout.
On Sunday, the car maker showed its high-end ready-to-wear collection for the first time in Milan, illuminating with its signature red colour a runway that looked like an endless track going far into the night.
Like the city itself, the New York fashion community generally takes the lead especially concerning technology, diversity and social causes. And the latest trend, is the metaverse.
Milan Fashion Week completed its final major shows on Sunday with a show devoid of any music by Giorgio Armani in a mark of respect to the fallen in Ukraine, and a DSquared2 catwalk show in a disused railway yard.
A Saturday which heralded two impressive debuts - Serhat Işık and Benjamin Alexander Huseby at Trussardi, and Matthieu Blazy at Bottega Veneta – and a mega metaverse moment at Dolce & Gabbana.
Anti-Putin protestors made their first manifestation in fashion with banners against the invasion of Ukraine, outside Versace's latest show. A day that included shows by Tod’s, Luisa Beccaria, Etro and Durazzi.
