Womenswearcatwalkseason news and archive

Pyer Moss Couture show postponed

If you were patiently waiting for Kerby Jean-Raymond to debut Pyer Moss Couture yesterday from New York as part of Paris Couture Week, you will have to wait a little longer as heavy, persistent rain forced the designer to postpone. Jean-Raymond, a guest designer of the Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture this season, chose to showcase his...

Jul 9, 2021

Fashion

Balenciaga debuts first haute couture collection in 53 years

Cristóbal Balenciaga was one of the masters of haute couture with an unmatched technique in pattern making and cutting. He pioneered novel shapes never seen before in women’s fashion and was much admired by his contemporaries. Even Christian Dior once remarked: “Haute Couture is like an orchestra whose conductor is Balenciaga. We other...

Jul 7, 2021

Fashion

Paris Haute Couture: Alaia debuts first collection by Pieter Mulier

Paris haute couture week on Sunday returned with a joyous and buzzy atmosphere with the first live show in a year and a half, the much-anticipated debut collection of Maison Alaia under new creative director, Mr Pieter Mulier. Rue de Moussy, a street in the Marais, was lit like a Hollywood film, the location where Azzedine Alaia once lived and...

Jul 5, 2021

Fashion

Bottega Veneta to host next salon show in Detroit, Michigan

Bottega Veneta is to take its next salon presentation to Detroit, Michigan. The Italian luxury house on Friday said it would stage its Spring Summer 2022 collection this October in America’s music and motor capital, after previously hosting salon events in Berlin and London. Salon 03 will be the third event since the start of the pandemic, which...

Jul 4, 2021

Fashion

Marc Jacobs returns to the catwalk with his first collection in 16 months

Marc Jacobs reinvigorated New York’s fashion industry with his return to the catwalk, old-school style. Showing his Fall 2021 collection on Tuesday evening, well outside any American fashion week calendar, Jacobs came back on his own terms, at his own time, at the New York Public Library building on Fifth Avenue. The show was poignant because...

Jun 30, 2021

Fashion

Chanel Cruise collection inspired by Jean Cocteau

Chanel this week unveiled its annual cruise collection via a show instead of digital film. The location was the Carrières de Lumières in the South of France, the setting of the 1959 Jean Cocteau film Testament of Orpheus, which in context provided both a backdrop and inspiration for the collection. “Because Gabrielle Chanel was close to Cocteau,...

May 5, 2021

Fashion

A dramatic look at Saint Laurent's Fall 2021 collection

The dramatic location for Saint Laurent’s Fall 2021 collection was anything but ordinary. Vast, sweeping landscapes devoid of sun and partial to elemental ruptures of water, ice, wind and sand, were the backdrop for YSL creative director Anthony Vacarello’s post-pandemic world. It could easily have been a film set with the cast of Lost, so out...

Apr 29, 2021

Fashion

Paris fashion week: 5 trends for AW21

Just as the days are getting longer and brighter, designers are showing their collections for the next fall/winter 2021/22 season. Because of the ongoing pandemic, Paris Fashion Week took place virtually, with fashion houses presenting their creations mostly in videos. In terms of setting, designers were looking for the extraordinary in the...

Mar 15, 2021

Fashion

Louis Vuitton closes digital Paris Fashion Week

An audience-free Paris Fashion Week closed with Nicolas Ghesquière presenting the Louis Vuitton Women’s Fall 2021 collection at the Louvre on Wednesday. Unveiled in the museum’s spectacular setting of the Michelangelo Gallery, the French luxury house showed a selection of bags from the new collaborative capsule collection with Italian artistic...

Mar 11, 2021

Fashion

Dries van Noten brings raw emotion to Paris Fashion Week

In one of the most beautiful fashion films of the digital season, Dries van Noten’s contemporary mix of design and choreography brought pure emotion to the start of Paris Fashion Week. Setting the stage for a three-day shoot in Antwerp to film and photograph over forty dancers and models (all the time adhering to social distancing protocols)...

Mar 4, 2021

Fashion

Five highlights from digital London Fashion Week

In another season, during another time, London Fashion Week would have been brimming with international press, buyers, influencers and notable industry folk. Front row catwalks would be celebrity-heavy and London abuzz with parties and events for its biannual fashion outing. Unlike in September, the February catwalks were shown entirely digital...

Mar 2, 2021

Fashion

Designers opt for pre-recorded shows at Milan Fashion Week, but not Valentino

The prospect of a phygital fashion week, that odd-sounding hybrid of physical and digital fashion shows, was nearly unanimously shunned by most designers, as Milan Fashion Week will only showcase two live catwalk presentations, that of Daniela Gregis and Valentino. Gregis, best known for her timeless and modern rustic collections, will show on...

Feb 24, 2021