Thanks for asking, but business is just dandy in the Land of Lim, an exotic place where sell-throughs are strong, and where wait lists and reorders really do exist. "People still like the prices," re...
Alexander McQueen may be the last designer standing who is brave or foolhardy enough to present a collection that is an unadulterated piece of hard and ballsy showmanship. The heated arguments that b...
Antonio Berardi was a pretty well kept secret until Gwyneth Paltrow surprised everyone by wearing his trompe l'oeil corset dress to one of her premieres last year. That stirred curiosity about an Ita...
Akris' profile is on the upswing lately, thanks to Angelina Jolie, who wore a minimal white suit from the Swiss label during the press junket for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Designer Albert ...
Andrew Gn traded in the lush, tropical colors of his Spring show for a more subdued Fall lineup of black, white, and herringbone tweed, with shots of teal, bronze, and bottle green. Last season's gol...
Last season Ann Demeulemeester lightened up, showing draped and wrapped togas in brilliant shades of orange. Today she returned to her familiar black and white tailoring (Edwardian jackets, narrow tr...
Filip Arickx and An Vandevorst are on their own trip. For Fall, they dreamed up a nomad who's "at home wherever she goes." They explained: She wears clothes with interesting new volumes constructed b...
Like the label's late founder, Loris Azzaro, Vanessa Seward knows her way around a little black dress. For Fall, the creative director of nearly five years' standing delivered plenty on that front, t...
"It's Parisian," said Nicolas Ghesquière of the assured melding of drape, print, and tailoring he sent out in the sparkling daylight streaming into the Hôtel de Crillon. The designer had mi...
Was it just coincidence that Christophe Decarnin showed his Balmain collection in the same room—the swimming pool at the Ritz—that Gianni Versace used for his couture spectaculars? There ...
For her couture presentation earlier this year, Anne Valérie Hash bid adieu to the Louvre in favor of her dixième arrondissement atelier, and she stuck with the more intimate space for her ...
The trials of Italy's newest talents, Tommaso Aquilano and Roberto Rimondi, might soften the hardest heart. First they parted from the company under which they designed the 6267 label; then they sign...
Bruno Basso and Christopher Brooke are the Pixar of clothes. You stare fixedly at their stuff and wonder exactly what it is and how they did it, so hornswoggling are the effects they achieve with the...
Albino D'Amato's dual obsessions, geometric construction and fluid draping, put this 5-year-old label firmly in step with the onward march of fashion. His cocoon coats came twisted and knotted at the...
If there's one item of desire to take away from the Fall collections in Milan, it might turn out to be something as low-key as a loose, slouchy, very luxurious mushroom suede coat. When all the noise...
Leopard spots, Stephen Sprouse, and Andy Warhol gone Latin: Those were the unmissables at Anna Molinari's relentlessy cheerful Blumarine. Unless Azzedine Alaïa is seriously put out by the refere...
Tomas Maier's remedy for breaking the downward spiral of depression is irresistible glamour. "With all that's going on, I just switched off the TV news and thought about designing appetizing clothes ...
Laura Poretzky was raised in several countries, but she is French-born and fluent in her mother tongue, so her choice of postrevolutionary France as a stylistic jumping-off point could be considered ...
Jonny Johansson of Acne, the Swedish fashion phenomenon, isn't one of those guys who goes about his business like a big shot. "I'm from reindeer country," he likes to tell people. But he's infiltrate...
"This is the center of the American design industry," Adam Lippes replied when asked why he'd decided to bring his latest show to the Bryant Park tents now, in this season of discontent. "It felt lik...
It's increasingly difficult, and ultimately pointless, to try to parse an Alberta Ferretti runway show as if it were a "collection" with a theme. Instead, it is what it is: an assortment of this and ...
Following a few seasons at West Chelsea's Eyebeam Studio, Alexander Wang moved his show to Roseland Ballroom, a venue that's witnessed generations of cool kids, loud music, and smoky late nights. In ...
Things were a bit off-kilter at Alexandre Herchcovitch's show today, and that was exactly the way they were supposed to be. The Brazilian designer said that he took inspiration from "big cities that ...
"I didn't want the collection to be cold or distant," said Joseph Altuzarra of his 15-plus-piece debut presentation. No chance of that. His are the kind of of-the-moment, body-conscious clothes made ...
"If you're going to have a show, then have a show," said Anna Sui, gearing up in her office about a week before her Belle Époque extravaganza. It was obvious how much the designer—happy am...
British heritage labels used to be the preserve of classy ladies to such an extent that the incoming designers charged with updating them would run a mile rather than acknowledge those traditional cu...
It's amazing how quickly designers are burrowing down into the early eighties for inspiration, and who's coming back up with what. At Armand Basi, Markus Lupfer hit on an as-yet-unexplored seam: not ...
"The beat goes on," said Mark Badgley backstage after today's show. "It never makes sense to do something that we're not about." What Badgley and his design partner, James Mischka, are about, recessi...
What else other than Adele's 19 would be playing at Barbara Tfank's presentation in the sunny penthouse at the Carlyle? Tfank, of course, dressed the soulful Grammy-winning Brit singer last Sunday fo...
At BCBG Max Azria, designing couple Max and Lubov built their Fall collection around the bold geometric abstraction of constructivism. Logically, shapes were of clear importance, both with respect to...
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