THE headline at yesterday afternoon’s Valentino show – or rather the Instagram moment that has become the staple of many a show this season – was Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson closing the show, reprising their Zoolander roles. This was a real (but also fantasy) catwalk-off. The crowd went wild, the phones came out and fingers couldn’t snap and type fast enough as a fashion fiction became reality and made everyone’s day in the process. Continue Reading…
Last night’s show, staged at the Conciergerie in Paris, the vaulted chambers where Marie Antoinette was imprisoned before being beheaded, and, for those who can remember, the venue for Lee McQueen’s first show in Paris thirteen years ago, where models walked with wolves on leashes, examined the beauty of those roses. Continue Reading…
Yesterday in Paris, Sarah Burton presented her latest offerings for Alexander McQueen, but some of her—and the house’s—best work can often be spotted on Catherine Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge. Continue Reading…
IF there is one thing that we beauty fanatics love, it’s a supersized or miniature version of one of our favourite products. We can’t explain it, it’s just the way it is. So, the item that captured our attention at Chanel’s brasserie-themed autumn/winter 2015 show at Paris Fashion Week was a chain-strap bag shaped exactly like a giant version of the brand’s much-loved Les Beiges compact – remember the furore that the Chanel No.5 version from the pre-spring/summer 2014 show caused?
From the Brasserie Gabrielle – see today’s Chanel show here:
THERE can’t be many better places to spend a Tuesday morning than at the Brasserie Gabrielle. With a multimillion pound budget, Karl Lagerfeld transformed the Grand Palais into the chicest – and largest – of Parisian cafes, complete with mosaic tiled floor – OK, it actually turned out to be printed vinyl, but this is a cafe after all, wipe clean is important. Continue Reading…
Paris fashion week is under way, and here are the best shots from the scene at the Chanel Fall 2015 ready-to-wear show. Read our review and see the entire collection here : Continue Reading…
Isabel Marant’s boho-band blend dipped its toe into Eighties waters yesterday – high waists on white jeans cinching in her cable knits or reworked Bretons, rah-rah frills jiving down sleeves and skirts, single earrings to compound the point. Continue Reading…
ELIE SAAB’S model army walked to a military beat this afternoon – the designer exchanged his signature fairytale romance for something darker, harder and tougher, “the way of the woods”, we were told. Continue Reading…
Rewind to last season and creative director Raf Simons created something light and spellbinding – it was a brave-new-world take on the histrionics of French fashion that felt bright and optimistic, futuristic even. Continue Reading…
See the Whole Collection Here :
THIS morning in Milan, Giorgio Armani introduced us to a new skirt/trouser hybrid happening. Call it the Skouser, quite simply a wrap-around skirt layered over a pair of slim-fitting trousers, except it wasn’t layered, it was entirely made up of one piece, with the front hemline of the skirt actually morphing into the trouser leg. It was a new one on us, and quite possibly the world.