Why the American fashion capital and its millennial consumer seem to be obsessed with nostalgia, how The Row outdid itself again, and the controversial element in Raf Simons’s looks…
Read moreChanel FW20: Dressing The Emperor
In what seemed like it would never happen, a hint of change has arrived at Chanel with Virginie Viard’s simpler, nostalgic collection, paradoxically ushering in a breeze.
Read moreGivenchy FW20: Same As It Ever Was
This season, Clare Waight Keller’s designs serve as a reminder for the potential of luxury, as a genre of fashion with a capital F, best articulated in its nuances and subtleties.
Read moreHaider Ackermann FW20: The Power of Indifference
“The HA person experiences intense emotions, but understands the importance of controlling them. They’re sensitive to life’s contradictions, and can expertly bounce between extremes. This is a collection of zero fucks.”
Read moreCeline FW20: I Am, Therefore I Want
“His constant cultural mining, zeitgeist parades, and never-ending rock-and-roll homages make for many a dish difficult to digest. But Slimane is no poseur; he’s not feeding into the musical myth for extra cool points, he’s righteously leading the band.”
Read moreIsabel Marant FW20: Just Take Me Anywhere
City life can become too much, even for city girls, and Isabel Marant knows that. In this collection, she engenders an escapist yearning for a departure…
Read moreChloé FW20: Sincere Synergy
Natacha Ramsay-Levi’s take on feminine complexity is entwined with her honest vulnerability: this season, she yielded the maturation of the Chloé woman to explore this fragility through deeper art references.
Read moreSaint Laurent FW20: YSL Woman in Love
Anthony Vaccarello offered a new, colorful, portrait of the Saint Laurent woman last night in Paris for the brand’s Fall Winter collection.
Read moreMoncler 8 Richard Quinn FW20: Nostalgic for 60s Sci-Fi
Richard Quinn’s designs for Moncler Genius engendered a vintage feel to a futurist event, and lend themselves to a woman who is drawn to things that are larger-than-life.
Read moreSimone Rocha FW20: On Birth, Life, and Loss
“It’s easy to notice the collection’s nuances to rituals that have defined the female experience. But Rocha’s collection also reminds us that loss and grief are part of life’s ever-changing story.”
Read moreMarc Jacobs FW20: Craft in Chaos
“It is at the brink of chaos and order that our brain achieves a state of consciousness.” Now, apply that sentiment to a good runway show and you get equal parts of design and performance…
Read morePeter Do FW20: Dressing The Shadow Self
Embracing the alternative ego with one of fashion’s most promising new designers.
Read moreRodarte FW20: Revamping of Soft Macabre
Kate and Laura Mulleavy’s Ready-to-Wear collection is charged by the spirit of rebellion and gothic imagery.
Read moreCarolina Herrera FW20: On Infinite Shapes
The collection’s unique purity begs the question: if you were to distil your personality down to its essence, what does that look like?
Read moreChristian Siriano FW20: Identity Moratorium
A crowded collection recalls the adage “try to appeal to everyone, and you appeal to no one deeply.”
Read moreSpring 2020 Couture Recap: A Mirror For Every Woman
The disconnected themes of the Paris Fashion Week couture shows are an accurate representation of how modern women cannot be so easily summed up or defined.
Read moreGucci FW2020 Menswear: Hypnotize Me
With his latest collection, Alessandro Michele invites us to revisit our formative years, reimagining what it means to be masculine.
Read morePFW SS20 Recap: Moral Competition
In trying to undo decades of wasteful consumption and inequality, brands are eager to convey their virtuous values…
Read moreGivenchy SS20: Not Tiffany's
Clare Waight Keller lightened up for Spring/Summer 2020, making the moodier Givenchy devotee yearn for the darkness.
Read moreValentino SS20: Amazing Grace
It’s the redemptive, pious aspect of Pierpaolo Piccioli’s clothes with several elements of vice thrown in that get us every time.
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