We played Demna Gvasalia’s video game for Balenciaga’s fall 2021 collection: Here’s how it went. Master of the immersive fashion show, Demna Gvasalia dazzled once again with the reveal of his latest Balenciaga collection via a bespoke video game entitled “Afterworld: The Age of Tomorrow.” It propelled his usual cast of cool characters to New […]
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Given how crazy 2020 has been, the designer said the new fantasy now is reality. After making a splash in Paris in January, Craig Green is going back to the essentials. “The general feeling at the moment is that people want things to feel a certain way. The things I would want to wear at the moment […]
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We were invited this season to Gran Canaria Swimwear Fashion Week 2020, but because of pandemic we couldn’t attend this time, this is a resume. Gran Canaria Swim Week by Moda Cálida welcomes its 2020 edition, which will take place at the ExpoMeloneras site, in Maspalomas (Gran Canaria), between October 22 and 25. With a […]
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In his debut collection, Matthew Williams focused on graphic tailoring, luxed-up casual and lots of hardware. “Maybe we should start in the hardware area,” Matthew Williams said as he greeted visitors to the showroom unveiling of his first collection for Givenchy, the most-anticipated debut of the Paris season. Front and center were piles of hefty […]
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Demna Gvasalia went for “easy, cool and stylish” clothes with haute sustainability credentials. Disruptive thinker that he is, Demna Gvasalia switched things up again, opting to show Balenciaga’s summer 2021 pre-collection instead of what would have been the main “runway” collection. He also used the video format instead of an immersive physical experience while ramping […]
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Tom Van Dorpe gave the label a nudge toward minimalism and dresses were more sophisticated, less flouncy and less fussy. For his debut collection as artistic director of The Kooples, Tom Van Dorpe thought he would channel the brand’s elegant rebel aesthetic through very graphic styles, with an emphasis on black. But then came the […]
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A nearly all-white palette made a compelling canvas for Browne’s whimsy on Twenties-inspired sportswear. The Summer Olympics may have been postponed due the pandemic, but not in Thom Browne’s imagination. For spring, the mad tailor let his mind run wild with the Olympics theme, only with a 2032 Lunar Games twist. A master of the […]
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Olivier Rousteing straddled heritage and fierce tailoring in his bombastic coed show for spring. What is Olivier Rousteing — one of fashion’s youngest, most social media-savvy creative directors — doing trawling through Balmain’s archives, and scouring flea markets, too? He’s not only marking the French house’s 75th anniversary — he’s searching for more DNA, though […]
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Dries Van Noten drew on the aventurous film work of early 20th-century artist Len Ley to create a create a collection filled with energy and nostalgia-free beauty. Beauty. God knows, the world needs it. But what expressions of beauty make sense for fraught times? For Dries Van Noten, the answer is clear. “It has to […]
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Felipe Oliveira Baptista found a photo of beekeepers during confinement, cueing lots of colorful netting and blurred florals for his sophomore show. Luxury honey has become a thing, with Kering bottling the sweet stuff from bees that feed on the lavender fields at its almost pastoral Paris headquarters, while Louis Vuitton does the same on […]
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