For the Haute Couture Spring/Summer 2020 collection, Schiaparelli’s artistic director Daniel Roseberry said he was inspired by the Sports Illustrated old swimsuit 1980s shots of Elle MacPherson, the Australian model famously nicknamed The Body, for a series of clingy, multicolored gowns, including one with a pink skirt that was wider than an inflatable dinghy. The
‘’It’s a broken heart, this season. I went through a heartbreak’’, French designer Ludovic de Saint Sernin said backstage about his Fall/Winter 2020 collection. ‘’I’ve created a special bond with my community and I felt I wanted to share that’’. Show notes explained that the creation of this collection – his fifth so far –
In the 1017 Alyx 9SM’s Fall/Winter 2020 collection, creative director Matthew Williams has provided the wardrobe drawing on his autobiography, of his upbringing in Central California, together with his life today, Williams presents a notion of utilitarian glamour, of reality and fakery in one. ‘’This collection is about the blended versions of reality we all
For Hermès Fall/Winter 2020, Véronique Nichanian presented a typically elegant compilation of tailored clothing and outerwear, with flashes of the house’s signature leather. The collection offers a sometimes technical, sometimes poetic vision of the garment. Between comfort and graphic harmony, each piece is a sublime object of complex know-how. © Hermès
Taking place at the Paris La Défense Arena, Simon Porte Jacquemus showcased his Pre-Fall 2020 women’s collection and Fall/Winter 2020 men’s collection at Paris Fashion Week Men’s. The collection was inspired by a time when Simon was a child making a skirt for his mother: ‘’When I was 7 I took a linen curtain and
This season, Craig Green – the most promising talent to emerge from London Fashion Week Men’s – arrived at the Paris Fashion Week Men’s runway for the first time to showcase his Fall/Winter 2020 collection. The show, a mix of the cerebral and the everyday (Venetian blinds, tourniquet rubber and crinkly packaging material) stood up
Jonathan Anderson’s latest Loewe collection was all about taking traditional women’s couture shapes, pulling them apart and reassembling them – for men. Anderson said he liked the idea of a ‘’fantasy wardrobe’’, of creating a playful, optimistic collection with a superhero bent (hence the capes). ©Loewe
Showed on the outskirts of Paris in a Brutalist building that houses the National Dance Center, the Lanvin’s Fall/Winter 2020 collection is entitled ‘’Beach Birds’’ after a 1993 choreography by Merce Cunningham, where each dancer performed to their tempo, like a flock of birds enjoying themselves on the seashore. But, the real inspiration for the
Past, present, couture. For the Dior Men’s Fall/Winter 2020 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, the iconoclastic stylist, jeweler and art director who helped create seminal album covers like
This season, Kris Van Assche produces a collection that was as easy on the eyes as it was to touch for Berluti. The Belgian designer looks to meld past and present ideas into the collection. He imagines what the Maison’s century old-archives would look like had they encompassed tailoring. Sharp suits and tailored coats steal
