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Milan Fashion Week FW23 street style: relaxed luxe

The fashion industry crowd, including buyers, editors, models and influencers, flocked to Milan mid-February for the FW23 collections. As usual, there was as much to photograph outside the shows as there was within. Attendees wore a variety of looks. That included outfits that had a relaxed luxe vibe; call it the ‘Virgil Abloh’ effect. Designers...

Mar 16, 2023

Fashion |REPORT Featured

Paris Fashion Week: Luxury bets on safe havens

Steeped in couture touches, Paris Women's Fashion Week AW23 revived a certain idea of Parisian luxury. While very high-end fashion is not experiencing a crisis, its labels did not shun the refuge values represented by the face of the French capital, the myth of the Parisian woman or the creative heritage of a house. There were 106 registered...

Mar 7, 2023

Fashion |OPINION Featured

Ludovic de Saint Sernin won over at Ann Demeulemeester

Paris - Ludovic de Saint Sernin's debut with Ann Demeulemeester last weekend in Paris was eagerly awaited. It turned out to be a straightforward tribute, which was perhaps just a little too simple. In recent weeks and months, names have once again been shuffled around fashion's organisational charts. Contracts between labels and designers are...

Mar 6, 2023

Fashion |Opinion Featured

Paris makes way for new creative leads

A series of debuts took Paris fashion week by storm, bringing a new energy to brands-in-waiting. Harris Reed at Nina Ricci At Nina Ricci, the French fashion house notorious for its L’Air du Temps fragrance, British designer Harris Reed brought bold glamour and high octane femininity. Mr Reed, who at 26 years old has quickly ascended to the peak...

Mar 5, 2023

Fashion Featured

A pinch of sex and a lot of reality at Milan Fashion Week

When Diesel designer Glenn Martens opened Milan Fashion Week last Wednesday amid a mountain of 200,000 Durex condoms bearing the Diesel logo, the stage seemed set for a revealing and sensual Milan Fashion Week. But instead, most of the designers in the Italian metropolis exercised restraint. This season, the most extroverted of fashion cities...

Feb 28, 2023

People |OPINION Featured

Will Maximilian Davis's sophomore collection for Ferragamo deliver sales?

Maximilian Davis showed his sophomore collection for Ferragamo last week. For a young designer at just 27 years old, there is an undeniable pressure to power the revamp under chief executive Marco Gobbetti, and deliver a collection that generates sales and resonates in a crowded luxury landscape. Davis’s first collection for the Florentine house...

Feb 27, 2023

Fashion |OPINION Featured

Six reasons for designers to edit their runway collections

If creativity is the residue of time wasted, as Albert Einstein once said, surely the catwalk is the platform for trying new ideas that otherwise would never have come to light. Particularly for designers who are wary of editing and are keen to indulge every idea, in multiple forms. Fashion shows can be boring. For buyers and journalists, who...

Feb 27, 2023

Fashion |In Pictures Featured

LFW: 5 standout presentations for AW23

When it comes to fashion week, a catwalk format isn’t right for all designers, and a presentation can allow them to display their collection in a more intimate and creative setting. This season at London Fashion Week there were 18 on-schedule presentations, ranging from displaying 824 single sneakers to energetic dance performances, and...

Feb 24, 2023

Fashion |Opinion Featured

Designers, not celebrities, make their mark at Milan Fashion Week

Milan Fashion Week has made a case in point for craftsmanship and why designers should helm fashion houses. Italy’s fashion industry is one that is rooted in family businesses, in factories and ateliers with long histories of crafting clothes. While revolution and innovation have sometimes been slow to breathe new life into the sector, it is...

Feb 24, 2023

Fashion |In Pictures Featured

LFW: NewGen Talents - Chet Lo, S.S.Daley and Conner Ives

2023 marks the 30th anniversary of the British Fashion Council’s NewGen initiative, which supports and nurtures emerging British designers, and the autumn/winter 2023 season kicks off a year-long celebration, which will include an exhibition hosted by the Design Museum in September. NewGen offers designers financial support, showcasing...

Feb 23, 2023

Fashion |In Pictures Featured

LFW: Edeline Lee’s ‘London Holiday’ around Mayfair

For her London Fashion Week presentation, Edeline Lee opted for a guerrilla-style immersive showcase, which saw the fashion crowd wandering through Burlington Arcade and around the surrounding streets alongside curious members of the public. Lee is known for her creative presentations, and in previous seasons, she has shown her new collections...

Feb 23, 2023

Fashion |In Pictures Featured

LFW: Patrick McDowell declares “Cinderella shall go to the Football”

Last season, Patrick McDowell merged the world of Marie Antoinette with his own Liverpudlian roots, and for autumn/winter 2023, he reimagined Cinderella going to the football rather than the ball filled with sustainability innovations and regal silhouettes. McDowell transformed the top floor of The Mills Fabrica into a field of dreams, complete...

Feb 22, 2023