Runway Reviews
Versace Spring-Summer 2021: welcome to Versacepolis
16 Jun 2021
Over eighty percent of the ocean is completely unmapped and unexplored. A far greater percentage of the moon’s surfaces have been studied and recorded than the ocean floor has. The deep blue waters remain a mystery. To present Sprint/Summer 2021 collection Donatella Versace transports us underwater to Versacepolis. As the world resiliently adapts to the new normal, this sub-surface show setting is an opportunity for the Versace community to indulge in a little fantasy and dive headfirst into... Read More
Dolce&Gabbana's New Face of Devotion Bag Campaign SS21
19 Apr 2021
Lake Como is the background of the SS21 ADV Campaign dedicated to the Devotion Bag: a delight for the eyes made even more unique by the charm of the protagonist Monica Bellucci. Just three years after its launch, transported down the catwalk by flying drones, the Devotion Bag has already become an iconic Dolce&Gabbana model, presented in varying materials, shapes and sizes. A declaration of love and devotion to elegance, the craftsmanship and attention to detail sealed by the Sacred... Read More
Valentino Haute Couture Fall Winter 2020/2021
11 Feb 2021
Across history, moments of reset, or restart, invariably put human values at the center. Humanism is the seed of rebirth.
Of ‘Grace and Light,’ the show marked the debut of a new era, with 16 immaculate silhouettes where the color white transmitted dreams and traced the contours of a new beginning with endless possibilities.
This is one of such moments. Focusing on fashion as the profoundly human activity of giving form to matter through the hands, shaping creations that the... Read More
Dolce & Gabbana's ode to craftsmanship
22 Nov 2020
“Fatto A Mano” – it means made by hand. But it also means “that every human touch contributes to the creation of every garment”. And on this sunny Sunday in Milan, the Italian House’s savoir-faire was alive and well as show-goers had an exclusive look at the artisan’s mastery as they entered the venue. And so, the collection was a breath of fresh air that took our minds away from winter’s hardship. In the fashion industry, that meant turning any wintery staple piece into something that no... Read More
Gucci Fall-Winter 2020 -2021 Advertising Campaign, The Ritual
29 Jul 2020
Titled The Ritual, the new Gucci advertising campaign follows the reversal of perspective that characterized Creative Director Alessandro Michele’s vision for the Fall-Winter 2020-2021 show, where the audience was invited to witness what goes on behind the scenes, behind the curtains. Further exploring the idea of looking at things from a different point of view, new possibilities opened up. Consequently, models were asked to be the authors of the new campaign and were given the brief to... Read More
Berluti Autumn Winter 2020
05 Jul 2020
Heritage is the soul of menswear. A generational dialogue between tradition and change, it inspires and provokes the evolution of male dress. For Autumn-Winter 2020, Berluti intensifies and abstracts its own heritage in a free-spirited proposal for our time. Imagining what the maison’s century-old archives – entrenched in expert shoemaking – would look like had they encompassed tailoring, artistic director Kris Van Assche stages an exaggerated exchange between past and present. The... Read More
Longchamp FW 2020 Collection
29 Jun 2020
For her fourth show at New York Fashion Week, Creative Director Sophie Delafontaine envisioned a Parisian woman who is constantly moving forward, ceaseless in her pursuit for what’s new, what’s next. She is the star of her own movie, a complex character built of layers, who is far from one-dimensional.
For Delafontaine, the starting point was the ’70s, a decade that encapsulates a free mindset, when self-expression was typified by the era’s leading ladies, including Catherine Deneuve... Read More
Chanel’s Legendary Story
18 Mar 2020
If the nave of the Grand Palais has metamorphosed in a cloister garden for the Spring-Summer 2020 Haute Couture show, it is to transport us to one of the key places in Gabrielle Chanel’s childhood. After the death of her mother in 1895, she and her sisters were sent by their father to the orphanage of the ancient Cistercian abbey of Aubazine, in Corrèze, to live alongside the other little boarding pupils. It was in this timeless place hidden from the world, that the young Gabrielle was... Read More
Dior Men's Winter 2020-2021 Collection
04 Mar 2020
Past, present, couture. for the dior men’s winter 2020-2021 collection, artistic director kim jones draws on the dior archives and iconography to celebrate the house’s timeless elegance. a journey to the heart of haute couture and a tribute to judy blame, a pivotal figure and a symbol of creativity that always looks to the future.
The silhouettes explore values of excellence and authenticity, evoking fashion not just as a finished product but as a creative process. clothes, shoes and... Read More
Chanel's Métiers d'Art 2020 collection reinforces Coco's house codes
15 Jan 2020
Chanel presented its Métiers d’Art collection in Paris on Wednesday. For her first high-craft outing for the maison, creative director Virginie Viard leaned heavily on the house codes—camellias, tweeds, layers of chain-link necklaces and pearls, and highly wearable suiting. Titled, "31 Rue Cambon", the address of Chanel's legendary Parisian store, the collection was a safe return to the brand's hallmarks, especially after previous outings that saw Karl Lagerfeld looking to Egypt and Hamburg... Read More
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