Sarah Burton definitely isnt shying away from the weight of legacy shes inherited. Her venue was La Conciergerie, Marie Antoinettes prison and the site of an Alexander "Lee" McQueen show that...
Ah, the seventies. At the moment its the decade with a ripe popularity level roughly equal to that of Anna Dello Russo making her way through the Tuileries. But for 32-year-old Alexis Mabille it hold...
Last seasons long-skirted hippies deluxe may have been a leap too far for Andrew Gn and his blue-chip clients. For Fall, he returned to more familiar territory, finding inspiration in the work of the...
The Salle Wagram, a dance hall dating to 1865, suggested we were in for a different kind of Akris show than were used to. And indeed the program notes said that designer Albert Kriemler took the Vien...
Designer inspirations. At times they seem pulled out of thin air at the eleventh hour, at others so arcane as to be irrelevant, and sometimes just plain irrelevant. So it was with hesitation that one...
Erik Saties Trois Gymnopédies, one of the most exquisite pieces of music ever composed, set the mood for a particularly poetic collection from Ann Demeulemeester. And it came from a place that, ...
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"Intimate. Beauty that turns inward." Thats how Anne Valérie Hashs show notes described her Fall collection, which followed in the same immediately appealing and casual footsteps as Spri...
"Bally is a shoe company, so its all about a coat, long legs, and a shoe," Michael Herz said at the companys presentation today. For Fall, he and his design partner, Graeme Fidler, imagined a...
Backstage, Albino DAmato explained that he was influenced by New York City. "But my way," he qualified. "Theres a lot of American art in there, from fifties Rothko to eighties Keith Harin...
It might have been sheer coincidence that the most memorable image of Alberta Ferrettis show today was the pattern that ran down the front of a shift dress and a tunic top. It looked like a crack in ...
Last season, it was porn; this season, it was cars. But Porn 2, the title she gave her new show, clarified Ann-Sofie Backs feelings about the relationship between men and their motors. "The subje...
After the Acne show this morning, Jonny Johansson was so choked with emotion that you had to wonder if this was an Acne watershed wed just witnessed. You know, the kind that comes before a major anno...
The Ballets Russes exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London was so seductive, it was merely a matter of minutes before it reconfigured itself as a designer influence. The fact that An...
Girls on bikes. Of Phillip Lims satchelful of references for Fall, that was the most interesting. After all, theres something terribly cool about a look thats remarkably stylish, yet not so precious ...
Alexandre Herchcovitch fans who turned up at the designers show today expecting more of his trademark jubilant prints were in for a surprise. The Fall clothes he sent down the runway were uncharacter...
"You know, Mona is launching activewear this season," deadpanned Assembly New York owner Greg Armas at the start of todays A Détacher show. "Activewear for reading." Armas—...
Bodkin designer Eviana Hartman showed a polished, wearable collection at her first-ever fashion week presentation this evening. Bodkin has earned plaudits for its commitment to sustainability, and wh...
A professed fan of menswear fabrics for women, Chadwick Bell posed the inevitable question: What happens if a woman raids her husbands closet, discovers, "Aha! This is what I want to be wearing,&...
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