DKNY’s back-to-black manifesto struck at the very core of the brand’s DNA for fall, particularly where city-ready outerwear was concerned. The LBD—a wardrobe staple beloved of many ...
At one end of London, there was her Majesty the Queen, opening the Chelsea Flower Show for the delectation of fanatical followers of sweet peas, irises, and dahlias (currently contenders as top fashi...
“Making clothes.” That was Oscar de la Renta’s response when asked what he was thinking about for resort 2013. It wasn’t, admittedly, the most incisive or penetrating or&mdash...
With exquisite timing on the eve of Nicolas Sarkozy’s handover to the new Socialist president François Hollande, the fashion world gathered at Versailles to watch Karl Lagerfeld play the...
And here we find ourselves again: another round of collections just eight weeks after the last looks of fall hit the runway. (Some of those clothes, by the way, are already in stores. Allow yourself ...
Stella McCartney’s command as wardrobe mistress to young, together women is becoming more impressive with every collection. Her fall 2012 was a comprehensive round-up of every trend of the seas...
In the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, the venue for Christophe Lemaire’s third trot in the ring for equestrian deluxe brand Hermès, Jane Birkin was politely fie...
Exploding petals. Women as flowers. Cascading, swirling, outsize pink blooms made of organza and feather. Thistledown and dandelion clocks shivering on layer upon layer of tulle. Sarah Burton has bee...
Akris’s Albert Kriemler loves architecture, and so every season the construction of his clothes tells you something about the various architects he’s been studying. Though in a way he&rsq...
It might have been raining outside, but there were heaps of powdery fresh snow on the runway at Moncler Gamme Rouge. That picture-perfect winter wonderland was inspired by a scene from Visconti&rsquo...
Nothing about Sunday’s Kenzo show was easy. The location—the cool, colorful and very designed university building reachable only via a few connecting one-way streets—wasn’t ea...
“Violently happy!” warbled Björk whose songs played as Miuccia Prada’s dandy army stomped down her lacquered beige Miu Miu runway in thick-heeled ankle boots.Miuccia’s ob...
Ah! It’s so hard to find a porter when you need one these days, don’t you find? Well, not if you’d traveled on the 10:00 Louis Vuitton express to the Louvre this morning. A real vin...
The enormous shards of smoky quartz and amethyst, rising from sands of crystal like stalagmites in a giant’s cave, set the mood chez Chanel, where Karl Lagerfeld was thinking about minerals, fr...
It’s becoming hard to keep count of how many shows have been opening this season with designers’ black thoughts. Yes, black is back, but its possibilities are being recast in many differe...
Fresh-faced young designer Pedro Lourenço is just beginning to establish himself on the Paris fashion scene, and the image of the open road projected at the end of the runway was a mirror to t...
If ever there’s a house that epitomizes the strength of a chic, Parisian woman, it’s Yves Saint Laurent. In his outgoing collection, Stefano Pilati represented her on his runway, without ...
“I’m in love with New York all over again!” exclaimed Giambattista Valli backstage at his show; the designer has recently unveiled his exciting showroom space there in the once grit...
Listening to Clare Waight Keller talk about her fall collection for Chloé, it’s hard not to draw parallels. “It’s about a British girl falling for the classic elements of Par...
Here’s another name to add to the growing list of young, working mothers who are gaining traction in twenty-first century fashion: Chitose Abe. She’s the Japanese designer who has built u...
The thunderous sound of galloping horses filled a glacial school gymnasium Sunday night, and heralded a Givenchy collection that focused on strong tailoring that reflected the faultless precision of ...
“We started out looking at riding clothes,” said Bill Gaytten backstage after his fall show for John Galliano. “And then as we got going, it turned fetishistic and became about clot...
On the rare occasion Phoebe Philo was spotted at an art-world party in London last fall (her husband Max Wigram is a gallerist), she was always wearing trousers and a coat—one or another of tho...
You could learn all about the Fundación Real Escuela Andaluza del Arte Ecuestre from Wikipedia. But to save you the trouble of typing all that into Google, and to paraphrase, it’s a ridi...
The pulse of tough urban life throbbed through Jean Paul Gaultier’s collection. That meant revisiting many of the codes of his house—from the trench coat to the corset—and layering ...
It’s hard to write about Rei Kawakubo’s fall collection without sounding pretentious. But the thunderous, ten-minute round of applause which ended her show—people were clapping unti...
Office attire and what it can mean to the modern woman is proving a growing preoccupation this season. So far, we’ve seen files opened on the subject from designers as different as Donna Karan,...
As he proved once more in a show of commanding beauty and controlled elegance, Haider Ackermann is a designer at the very top of his game. He has the ability to create desire, and the authority to pr...
A charming sense of play is something we’ve always come to expect from the Sonia Rykiel wardrobe; with her shock of red hair and alluring nonchalance, no one embodies that energy more than the ...
Ten years of Alber! The birthday boy threw a whopping Lanvin party tonight—true, heartwarming, campy, and calorific fun for a stadium-full of the family of fashion. At least for an hour or two&...
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