The world’s a stage and none more diverse than Paris couture. Where a Gibraltar-born designer creates couture for a Belgian maison; a Phoenician master in Beirut; and a young mum fashion godmother on the Left Bank.
Charles de Vilmorin is the hottest wunderkind in Paris and his latest couture video suggests that he has such abundant fantasy in his repertoire to have a great career.
The silence was intense at Balenciaga, for a show held without any soundtrack as Balenciaga returned to haute couture after half a century. The applause, however, was resounding for creative director Demna Gvasalia.
Paris couture is not just about dressing billionaires' wives. It’s also about experimentation, and fashionable irony, as seen in three collections Tuesday: Alexandre Vauthier, Viktor & Rolf and Ronald van der Kemp.
Katie Macpherson is one in 2,000. The Manchester Metropolitan University student has won a UniDays competition to have a cut-out cocktail dress she designed sold on the global Missguided website.
Azzedine Alaïa was never, ever going to be an easy act to follow, but before an elite audience at the house’s headquarters, Pieter Mulier unveiled a striking and sculptural debut collection, to win a standing ovation.
A moment of restrained escapism at AMI, with founder designer Alexandre Mattiussi creating a collection for a world finally emerging from Covid tentatively. Nothing tentative, however, about the brand's explosive growth.
On Thursday, the South African designer, LVMH Prize winner in 2019, unveiled his first menswear collection at the Florentine show he is a special guest of, his half-ranger, half-cow-boy style both elegant and engaged.
Britain's Bianca Saunders has won the 2021 Andam Fashion Awards set up to reward fashion creativity. The rising star designer picked up her prize in Paris on Thursday.
The men’s collections for next summer presented in London, Milan and Paris blended streetwear and couture in a new mix, laid-back yet sophisticated, for an easy-going, highly wearable fashion to be enjoyed outdoors.
There is a great debate in fashion. Will women want elegance and sophistication when the pandemic eventually ends or will their biggest needs just be ease and comfort? Ian Griffiths of Max Mara, believes in the former.
Philadelphia-based fashion brand Paulo Redeem is the winner of the inaugural Amiri Prize.
Paris Fashion Week ended on Sunday with inspiring collections in a wide variety of styles by French labels Pigalle Paris and Lemaire, Japanese label Doublet and South Korean label Wooyoungmi.
Sphere, the incubator salon and platform for young talent showing in Paris, suddenly looked like it grew up this season, as a group of emerging designers unveiled vibrant collections.
Clubbing culture without any boundaries at Loewe, where the key inspiration this season were the funky naïve paintings of sexual liberation by German artist, Florian Krewer.
