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Alessandro Michele’s Valentino Debut: Pavillon des Folies
Thursday, December 5, 2024At Valentino, a new era is unfolding. Marked by a familiar exploration of times past, endless frills and flounces, and an unmistakable maximalist air recognizable from miles away, newly appointed creative director Alessandro Michele finds his spot at the house for his very first runway show this Paris Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2025. Entitled “Pavillon des… Alessandro Michele’s Valentino Debut: Pavillon des Folies
Chanel Fall-Winter 2024/25 Haute Couture
Wednesday, July 31, 2024Presented by the Fashion Creation Studio, the CHANEL Fall-Winter 2024/25 Haute Couture collection pays tribute to the Palais Garnier, in Paris. Playing a key role ever since its creation, in both the history of fashion and the House, this hotspot of performance and elegance, where everything is about glances, gazes and putting oneself on display,… Chanel Fall-Winter 2024/25 Haute Couture
Milan Fashion Week 2024: Focus on awareness
Tuesday, May 21, 2024At the latest Milan Fashion Week runways designers were striking a more serious note that encouraged investment buying. Bold new directions appeared to be on pause, as fashion houses doubled-down on signatures that sell. A celebration of fashion it was not – rather a moment of reflection. The schedule’s top-billing designers took the mic to… Milan Fashion Week 2024: Focus on awareness
Gaurav Gupta ‘Aarohanam’ at Paris Couture Week
Tuesday, April 2, 2024Aarohanam is ascension. A Sanskrit word that has a deep spiritual significance marking the journey of a being from the gross to the subtle, from solid to sublime, from darkness to light. This phenomenon inspires the collection. It portrays elevation from reason to innocence, letting go of every construct to become one with the natural… Gaurav Gupta ‘Aarohanam’ at Paris Couture Week
Schiaparelli: An Everyday Sensation
Tuesday, February 13, 2024In her private album, the actress Marisa Berenson describes a pivotal moment in the early career of her grandmother Elsa Schiaparelli. It was 1927, and Elsa was admiring a friend’s sweater. Upon learning it was made by some Armenian knitters, she tracked them down and commissioned a sweater of her own, which, Berenson writes, “she… Schiaparelli: An Everyday Sensation
Max Mara Resort 2024 takes a fresh look at florals
Wednesday, January 31, 2024When the weather map turns from yellow to orange to deep, deep red, smart travellers look north for the cool spots. Max Mara feels right at home in Scandinavia, thanks to its hip metropolises and the accessibility of Nordic design. But epic natural landscapes and a folklore redolent of mystery and magic offer Max Mara… Max Mara Resort 2024 takes a fresh look at florals
Valentino Haute Couture Fall/Winter 2023-24
Tuesday, August 15, 2023For the Valentino Haute Couture Fall/Winter 2023-24 Valentino show, a Château is, to Creative Director Pierpaolo Piccioli, a metaphysical entity, a context that can itself be recontextualized. Witness to a past time, a space bears traces of the lives lived within it – formerly emblematic of notions of elitism and status, a Château can today… Valentino Haute Couture Fall/Winter 2023-24
Elie Saab Haute Couture: Symbols of abundance
Tuesday, August 1, 2023The Elie Saab Haute Couture Spring/Summer 23 moves in such currents of richness and symbols of abundance. Each majestic piece is intricate and ornate, carefully created with impressions from the natural scenes and rituals of the revered kingdom of Thailand, where rich cultures of gilded splendor inspire the imagination and artistry of Elie Saab. To… Elie Saab Haute Couture: Symbols of abundance
Chanel’s Spring-Summer 2023 Haute Couture collection
Wednesday, March 22, 2023For Chanel’s Spring-Summer 2023 Haute Couture collection, Virginie Viyard and Xavier Veilhan headed to Gabrielle Chanel’s apartment at 31, Rue Cambon and found inspiration in the collection of objects, sculptures, drawings representing lions, does, stags, birds and camels displayed at this emblematic address. Reinterpreting the apartment’s bestiary in an exquisite way fit for a Couture… Chanel’s Spring-Summer 2023 Haute Couture collection
Schiaparelli Haute Couture Spring-Summer 2023
Monday, February 13, 2023In 1308, the poet Dante Alighieri began what would be his masterwork, The Divine Comedy, a 14,233-line poem divided into three books: Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. We all know this work, by name if not by heart. And yet when I revisited it recently, I was struck by something I’d missed when I first encountered… Schiaparelli Haute Couture Spring-Summer 2023
