Milan Men’s Fashion Week was bursting at seams with the amount of creative energy and life designers had put into their shows. Naturally, we had to attend as many as we humanly could, however, we wouldn’t want to overwhelm and, as a result, we have
Milan Men’s Fashion Week was bursting at seams with the amount of creative energy and life designers had put into their shows. Naturally, we had to attend as many as we humanly could, however, we wouldn’t want to overwhelm and, as a result, we have
Rome: the metaphoric Eternal City, a metropolis that welcomes and contemplates all, a locus amoenus of excess and privation, the magical melting pot of the pacific coexistence of extremes and cultures in the name of luminous and progressive syncretism. Rome: the stage of modernity, ab
Collection Haute Couture Autumn/Winter 2015 – Wearable Art In his show notes for the very first Viktor&Rolf Haute Couture show in January 1998, the late Richard Martin, curator of the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, wrote: "(
The essence of style and of a cosmopolitan life: the verticality of a New York skyscraper and of the Vendôme column, London’s fantasy and extravagance, Paris’ chic and cultural life and the baroque and light of Rome all blend in a collection aimed at today’s
Loris Azzaro's Fall-Winter 2015/16 Couture collection celebrates the merry insouciance, excess, extravagance and taste for surrealism that marked the disco era. The period's obsession with rhythms is rendered through graphic effects. Prints, embroideries, and crystal decorations enliven the outfits. Vertical stripes act as a leitmotif,
After joining the Fédération Française de la Couture in January 2015, Chopard is exhibiting its most recent Haute Joaillerie Creations at Paris Couture Week for the second time. The brand has decided to present pieces with exceptional precious stones from the Red Carpet Collection, along
3D Collection For the Fall-Winter 2015/16 Haute Couture show Karl Lagerfeld surprised the audience by unveiling his collection in a casino reinvented at the Grand Palais with about 20 international celebrities, all close friends of CHANEL, playing blackjack in Le Cercle Privé. Haute Couture gowns worn by
Shocking Emotion becomes colour. Colour becomes a gesture, an attitude. Eccentricity at its core. A subtle taste for provocation, suspended between compliance with the rules and flamboyant originality. When excess becomes elegance, colours are woven together, blending and shading into each other. Malachite green, lapis lazuli blue,
For his 2015-2016 fall-winter collection, Antonio Ortega rescues, redirects, and reinterprets fabrics to evoke the transition toward a celestial spirituality, a new life. A mystery drawn from various cultures around the world, a journey blending tradition, worship and fascination