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Paris Haute Couture: Valentino SS15

Shakespeare, Dante and Marc Chagall served as the inspiration for Valentino's SS15 Haute Couture collection, which was shown in Paris on Wednesday. The romance and storytelling was evident throughout, with Pierpaolo Ciccioli and Maria Grazia Chiuri’s offering lavish details including gauzy fabrics, velvets, and exquisite embroideries. In...

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Chanel Haute Couture in pictures

Spring has sprung a few weeks early, or at least at Chanel, where its SS15 couture season was in full bloom in Paris today. Showing at the Grand Palais, each season Chanel's creative director Karl Lagerfeld and his set designers transform the space into a work of art of its own. After the Paris massacre on January 7th, the French capital could...

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Spring/Summer 2015 trend watch

It may be cold outside, but January brings a seismic shift in fashion, with the old winter collections making way for new spring deliveries. The department stores are already displaying the season's key styles, and below is a summary of the trends that have made it from the catwalk to the stores. Khaki: Since it first hit the runway over 40...

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Paris Fashion Week final

It was all eyes on Louis Vuitton once more, as Nicolas Ghesquière showed his second collection for the French fashion house. The show, which took place in Paris' Bois de Boulogne in the new Fondation Louis Vuitton structure designed by Frank Gehry, had a strong 70s vibe, with denim, separates and leather as the main focus. But however simplistic...

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Paris Fashion Week Day 4

Showcasing its collation at the Louve, Raf Simons for Dior showed an ovoid and slim silhouettes in a collection that referenced both the 18th century as it did the modern age. There were light cotton broderie anglaise dresses, smocks and cropped knitted jackets with a techno-sport application. There were plenty of florals, but the frock coat was...

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Paris: The fashion week circus

There was a time when the front row was devoid of celebrity and famous faces. Instead, the seating at salons and runways were reserved for press, private clients, buyers and those that mattered in the industry, like investors, tastemakers, opinion leaders. The hierarchy of seating was easy: on the front row you would seat a publication's editor...

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Paris Fashion Week Day 3

There is always a sense of rawness in a Rick Owens collection, probing a balance between severity and beauty. For SS15 Owens, best known for his jerseys, silks and fine leather, used tulle, a traditional couture fabric, but he used it in a more directional aesthetic. Raw-edged and layered on the hips, the tulle was architectural on traditional...

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Paris Fashion Week kicks off

There was long layering and tailoring at the Christophe Lemaire SS15 Paris catwalk this week. Monochromatic dressing saw crisp layers of summer fabrics in classic tailoring and long layers. New shirt treatments in the form of pull-over and capelet shapes were a refreshing update to the traditional button-front. Coats and dresses in trapeze...

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Milan Fashion Week Final

Marni on its 20th anniversary showed a beautiful collection that was an ode to a Japanese garden. The clothes were sensual and graphic, something its designer Consuelo Castiglioni knows how to deliver in spades. The build up was especially poignant. The opening looks of natural jute and muslin bloomed into a floral explosion seen on woven...

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Milan Fashion Week kicks off

Prada for Spring/Summer 2015 sent a succession of patchwork floral dresses with raw frayed edges down the runway, paired with granny nylon socks (both nude and floral printed) and the chunkiest platform Mary Janes. There was the topstitching, as seen as the men's show in June, but other clothes looked as if there were just held together by their...

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London Fashion Week final

There was a hint of Hedi Slimane's Saint Laurent at the Tom Ford show, what with the tousled just out of the club hair, and the 60s mod vibe. Gold, glimmer, hot pants, cut-away dresses, this was Ford at his high octane best. Key pieces included styles from Ford's Gucci days, like the infamous white gown with circular cut outs. The end of the...

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London Fashion Week Day 4

In one of the strongest shows of London Fashion Week, designer Roksanda Ilincic showed beautiful sculptural arcs that came in the form of peplums and loosely draped silhouettes, inspired by the Brooklyn-based artist Julia Dault's plexiglas sculptures. The bright and rich sorbet colours lent an architectural form, also enhanced by the geometric...