Michael Kors: Classic glamour, granny inspired
Fads pass, but classics remain, rarely more so than at Michael Kors, whose latest spruce and often superlative collection shown Tuesday was inspired by that most noble of all figures –...
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Michael Kors: Classic glamour, granny inspired
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NYFW: Tory Burch and Meruert Tolegen
NYFW: Tory Burch and Meruert Tolegen
Two contrasting moments in New York, from a Tory Burch power show in the city’s greatest library, to a poetic moment by newcomer Meruert Tolegen in a snowstorm in Chinatown.
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Coach: Downtown cool in an uptown mansion
Coach: Downtown cool in an uptown mansion
The latest New York collection to pay homage to the city itself is Coach, which presented a subversive vision of luxury and style on a chilly winter Monday afternoon show.
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Carolina Herrera: Beauty as power above the Brooklyn Bridge
Carolina Herrera: Beauty as power above the Brooklyn Bridge
Just when you thought you were going to keel over from all the progressive indie brands making message collections, when along comes Wes Gordon with the classiest show in North America...
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NYFW Sunday: Area, Ludovic de Saint Sernin
NYFW Sunday: Area, Ludovic de Saint Sernin
Sunday in New York Fashion Week was all about two indie designers, Piotrek Panszczyk of Area and Ludovic de Saint Sernin, a Frenchman declaring his love for the Big Apple, in a link up...
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Khaite: Intoxicating Expressionism
Khaite: Intoxicating Expressionism
The setting for Khaite’s latest show was as dark as a G. W. Pabst or Carl Meyer film; two jet black halls, where the huge catwalk looked like it was made of black ice.
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NYFW weekend: Proenza Schouler, Anna Sui, Nidra Devi
NYFW weekend: Proenza Schouler, Anna Sui, Nidra Devi
A weekend of renaissance by experienced designers - Proenza Schouler, Anna Sui and Keren Craig of Nidra Devi - staying true to their DNA to create convincing urban chic.
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Willy Chavarria’s spiritual chic
Willy Chavarria’s spiritual chic
Brooklyn and fashion moment might have historically sounded like an oxymoron, but that’s exactly what we witnessed at a great Willy Chavarria show near the banks of the East River on...
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Tommy Hilfiger opens NYFW, pumps up the volume
Tommy Hilfiger opens NYFW, pumps up the volume
Tommy Hilfiger returned to New York Fashion Week on Friday night, after a two-year break, and pumped up the volume with a posh preppy collection inside Grand Central Station.
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NYFW preview: Devoid of many global brands but boasting a new generation of black talent
NYFW preview: Devoid of many global brands but boasting a new generation of black talent
New York Fashion Week opens this Thursday denuded of many powerhouse designers, though with a new generation of talent, many of them people of color, poised to take up the baton of style...
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Raúl Pagès wins debut Louis Vuitton Watch Prize for Independent Creatives
Raúl Pagès wins debut Louis Vuitton Watch Prize for Independent Creatives
The Swiss-based watchmaker nabbed the inaugural Louis Vuitton Watch Prize for Independent Creatives on Tuesday night with his novel approach to his métier.
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Loewe to stage Craft focused exposition in Shanghai
Loewe to stage Craft focused exposition in Shanghai
Loewe will stage its first major exhibition, Crafted World, in Shanghai this spring, a unprecedented celebration of the Madrid-born house’s Spanish heritage and culture.
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Bernard Arnault’s latest shopping: a Paris mansion not a French brand
Bernard Arnault’s latest shopping: a Paris mansion not a French brand
Bernard Arnault used to be known for buying luxury brands. Now, his favorite pastime is snapping up buildings – the latest of which is a historic Paris mansion near the Opera Garnier.
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Elsewhere in Couture: Elie Saab, Patou and Clara Daguin
Elsewhere in Couture: Elie Saab, Patou and Clara Daguin
Paris couture week throws up lots of remarkable options, from Elie Saab Casbah couture with a mini J Lo fashion riot, to rampant experimenting at Clara Daguin, to Guillaume Henry’s finest...
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John Galliano triumphs at Maison Margiela to close Paris couture
John Galliano triumphs at Maison Margiela to close Paris couture
Maison Margiela completed the Paris haute couture season on Thursday night with a sensational collection by John Galliano and a spellbinding show – a vision of Paris that would have...
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Valentino couture: Calabasas clans in couture
Valentino couture: Calabasas clans in couture
Hollywood pandemonium at Valentino, with hundreds of fans craning and jumping over barriers the better to catch a glimpse of three generations of Jenners ascend to the house’s couture show.
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Entente Cordiale: Jean-Paul Gaultier haute couture by Simon Rocha
Entente Cordiale: Jean-Paul Gaultier haute couture by Simon Rocha
Talk about a new entente cordiale. A meeting of the enfant terrible of Paris fashion Jean-Paul Gaultier and the high priestess of tough romanticism, Irish-born Simon Rocha, in an...
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Armani Privé: East meets West in Paris’ Palais de Tokyo
Armani Privé: East meets West in Paris’ Palais de Tokyo
Leave it to Giorgio Armani to have the most glittering array of stars in his couture show front row this season, all there to witness a glittering collection.
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Alaïa excellence
Alaïa excellence
Though technically the latest collection by Pieter Mulier for the house of Alaïa was ready-to-wear, the sheer sublimity of the clothes made one think this was the most original couture of...
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Elsewhere in Paris couture: Rahul Mishra, Stephane Rolland and Tamara Ralph
Elsewhere in Paris couture: Rahul Mishra, Stephane Rolland and Tamara Ralph
Three couturiers, none of them born in Paris - Rahul Mishra, Stephane Rolland and Tamara Ralph – offered contrasting visions of elegance, though all of them inspired by a beguiling search...
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Chanel couture: Tulle and transparence
Chanel couture: Tulle and transparence
Virginie Viard entitled Chanel’s latest haute couture collection The Button, but there was nothing remotely buttoned up about these clothes.
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Contemplative couture at Dior, as Maria Grazia Chiuri dialogues with Isabella Ducrot
Contemplative couture at Dior, as Maria Grazia Chiuri dialogues with Isabella Ducrot
A moment of contemplation and a collection of hyper-wearable clothes at Dior couture on Monday in the opening day of the Paris season, at a show packed with powerful female stars.
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Elsewhere in Paris: Aldo Maria Camillo, Meta Campania Collective and Berluti
Elsewhere in Paris: Aldo Maria Camillo, Meta Campania Collective and Berluti
There is a new generation of menswear creators like Aldo Maria Camillo and Meta Campania who rubbed shoulders with uber luxe labels like Berluti this season in Paris menswear. We visited...
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Schiaparelli stages sensational show, amid rumors of an acquisition
Schiaparelli stages sensational show, amid rumors of an acquisition
Is LVMH about to buy Schiaparelli, which opened the Paris haute couture season with a sensational Texan-tinted and celestial-inspired show attended by Jennifer Lopez and Zendaya?
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Sacai’s smash hit: Composite cool and assembled attitude
Sacai’s smash hit: Composite cool and assembled attitude
Few designers will have as much impact this season, for men or women, as Chitose Abe, whose Sunday afternoon show in Paris was a smash hit of composite cool and assembled attitude.
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Hermès and Valentino: Refined marques, contrasting visions of menswear
Hermès and Valentino: Refined marques, contrasting visions of menswear
Hermès and Valentino: Two very refined marques showed contrasting visions of menswear, though united in the determination to develop new sartorial codes.
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Paris couture opens Monday, Pascal Morand outlines its continuing importance
Paris couture opens Monday, Pascal Morand outlines its continuing importance
Fashion’s highest expression of creativity – the Paris haute couture season – kicks off Monday morning, with the profession rarely in finer fettle. Pascal Morand outlines its continued...
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Loewe’s cathedral of celebrities
Loewe’s cathedral of celebrities
Loewe’s latest menswear show was a meditation of the cult of the celebrity, the levelling effect of the worldwide web and a brilliant collab’ with LA-based artist Richard Hawkins.
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Kidsuper conquers with cool composite collage
Kidsuper conquers with cool composite collage
The season’s most uproarious show and collection was the cool composite collage collection by Kidsuper, where Brazilian football legend Ronaldinho modeled to deafening applause.
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Spiritual chic at Comme des Garçons Hommes Plus
Spiritual chic at Comme des Garçons Hommes Plus
A jam-packed show for the latest Comme des Garçons show, more people standing than sitting inside a dusty disused office building on a tatty block in the 9th arrondissement.