Monthly Archives: September 2011

All the latest trends and insider perspectives from Paris’ Spring 2012 fashion week.

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All the latest trends and insider perspectives from Paris’ Spring 2012 fashion week.

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On the face of it, Barbara Bui was ably ticking off the trends. Sporty? Check. Bold blocks of color? Check. Thirties drop-waists? Tribal motifs? Check and check. But her collection had its own crisp bounce. She cycled through all of the above and came … Continue reading →

The world of Blade Runner is not quite upon us yet, but to tide us over we’ve got Tokyo’s tribalism. All those kids strolling around Harajuku dressed as creatures from their fantasies—it’s a perfect fashion paradigm. Limi Feu designer Limi Yamamo… Continue reading →

Dries Van Noten came across James Reeve’s work in 2010 when he was president of the jury at the fashion festival in Hyères. The young English photographer was summoned to Antwerp, and his subsequent collaboration with the designer yielded the nigh… Continue reading →

“Freedom.” That was Felipe Oliveira Baptista’s starting point for this season, which he attributed to everything from the Arab Spring to just being plain thankful to have the freedom to do what he does. On the runway, it translated into models breezing… Continue reading →

At least five benches collapsed as people took their seats at the Rue Cassette space of the Balenciaga show. Too much soufflé last night, maybe? No one was badly hurt, just startled, but before another one could go crashing to the floor, a voice c… Continue reading →

“Like a journey through the vortex of cinema.” That’s how Marco Zanini summed up his Spring collection before listing a string of references including sci-fi kitchen-sink dramas, Hitchcock, Tim Burton, and John Waters. “It’s very personal,” he added. T… Continue reading →

The planets aligned for Gareth Pugh tonight. He got to show his clothes just the way he’d always wanted—with his longtime collaborators Matthew Stone and Ruth Hogben providing, respectively, brilliant sound and vision to enhance his collection. M… Continue reading →

Martine Sitbon has enough years in the game to never work a reference too literally. Though her magpie travel inspiration plucked from Morocco, China, Mexico, and Mitteleuropa, you’d be hard-pressed to categorize the results. It made for Rue du Mail’s … Continue reading →

Nicola Formichetti’s sophomore outing at Mugler began with a video of Lady Gaga singing: “I am a Mugler woman; don’t fuck with me. Don’t fuck with Mugler. Welcome to Paris; we are Paris.” Not the pop superstar’s best work, although as usual, it was har… Continue reading →

Guillaume Henry is the real thing: an upstart with a vision and the good fortune to have the support of a brand behind him. The crowds at his shows keep getting bigger, and he didn’t disappoint the top-of-the-masthead types who turned up this morning a… Continue reading →

Aside from the slightly random vignette of theater (starring the transcendent Rossy de Palma) that opened Manish Arora’s show, his Spring collection’s most shocking statement was… normalcy. After the show, Maria Luisa Poumaillou, who falls light … Continue reading →

Ann Demeulemeester has been dreaming about the kind of adventuress that Arthur Rimbaud, the nineteenth-century poet hero of her men’s Spring collection, might have come across during his self-imposed exile in Africa. Demeulemeester even has a bio for h… Continue reading →

There’s been a whole lot of lace, satin, and organza going around these last few weeks. But when Sharon Wauchob talked today about making couture elements work for every day, it was a continuation of a conversation she’s been having for years. Wauchob’… Continue reading →

It was Olivier Rousteing’s big moment at Balmain. The young designer, having worked under Christophe Decarnin for two years, assumed the design reins at the house after his former boss’ sudden departure in February. Rousteing presented his Resort colle… Continue reading →

On the face of it, Barbara Bui was ably ticking off the trends. Sporty? Check. Bold blocks of color? Check. Thirties drop-waists? Tribal motifs? Check and check. But her collection had its own crisp bounce. She cycled through all of the above and came … Continue reading →

Rick Owens called the wall of light that framed his catwalk “a gateway to heaven.” Typically provocative. When his models passed through that wall, it looked like they’d just encountered the world’s biggest bug zapper. “Electrocuted martyrs,” Owens dub… Continue reading →

Peter Copping named his Spring collection Zina after the artist Zina de Plagny, who collaborated with Nina Ricci in the 1930′s, designing prints. Copping found out about her not in the house’s archives but in a World of Interiors article about her daug… Continue reading →

Fashion people are always talking about the frustrating lapse between when clothes hit the runway and when they arrive in the stores. Brands like Zara have rushed to fill in the gaps, restocking every other week with new merchandise, much of it inspire… Continue reading →

After visiting Kenya last year, An Vandevorst and Filip Arickx were quite taken with the warriors of the Turkana and Samburu tribes—two groups of young men who are apparently hyperconscious of their bodies, which they delight in decorating and pa… Continue reading →

It’s official. For Spring 2012, it’s all about a dress. Roland Mouret is a master of the art form. Shoppers at his Carlos Place store in London have been known to buy four versions of the same frock, one for each of their residences. There were several… Continue reading →

Our review will be posted shortly. See the complete collection by clicking the image at left. Continue reading →

Our review will be posted shortly. See the complete collection by clicking the image at left. Continue reading →

Our review will be posted shortly. See the complete collection by clicking the image at left. Continue reading →

Our review will be posted shortly. See the complete collection by clicking the image at left. Continue reading →

Our review will be posted shortly. See the complete collection by clicking the image at left. Continue reading →

Our review will be posted shortly. See the complete collection by clicking the image at left. Continue reading →