President Donald Trump will this week visit a new Louis Vuitton facility in Texas, which is being bolstered by local government financing, underlining his close relationship with Bernard...
Few luxury brands have been as quietly busy as Chanel, which has strategically bought stakes in three new businesses and, just this week, unveiled the structure of its new center for...
Pucci has not had a creative director for the past year, and its future direction remains somewhat vague, but it does have an innovative new ad campaign, teasing millennial vanity in a...
Luxury conglomerate LVMH has acquired a stake in Madhappy, the American direct-to-consumer casualwear brand, via LVMH Luxury Ventures, an investment vehicle with the group that previously...
Chanel has unveiled the structure of its new 19M building in the northeast corner of Paris, designed to group all Métiers d’Art businesses in a unique constellation of French savoir-faire.
For the past few years, cool active sport brands worldwide have been obsessed with one role model – Moncler. One other brand carving out new territory on the apparel map is Rossignol, the...
The international catwalk season finished this week, bringing to a close a marathon of some 400 shows and major presentations in the industry’s four great capitals: London, Milan, New...
It was a great piece of staging by Louis Vuitton on Tuesday night and quite an impressive show, though we are not so sure about the clothes.
If the weather gods are any indication, then the future should be kind to Lacoste, whose latest show at an outside tennis court at Roland Garros ended seconds before a torrential downpour.
“Raw, instinctive, arty and dangerous,” said Miuccia Prada with a naughty twinkle in her eye after a path-breaking Miu Miu show in Paris on Tuesday, the final day of the 30-day...
It felt like a scene from a great classic movie, a spy film or romantic comedy set on the rooftops of Paris at Chanel this morning in Paris. It even had a catwalk crasher, and the real...
A bare pine floor, unvarnished wooden columns and a few billowing ceiling sails as Sarah Burton stripped back Alexander McQueen to its essentials with a simple set and a brilliant fashion...
Many feel called to fashion; but few are chosen. But one true member of the elect has to be Giambattista Valli, who staged one of his most composed ready-to-wear collections on a balmy...
It’s often said that you cannot invent that much new in fashion. Those that make that claim should really attempt to get an invitation to a Sacai show, so rich in ideas and so fresh they...
In an era obsessed with sustainability, few designers and brands appear better placed to profit from and lead this movement than Stella McCartney, who staged her latest runway show in...
Probably no designer in Paris is more popular this week than Pierpaolo Piccioli, whose latest show for the house of Valentino earned him the most impassioned roar of 2019 as he took his bow.
Albert Kriemler, the designer and driving force behind Akris, had something to celebrate this Sunday in Paris. The 10th anniversary of his iconic bag: Ai.
A packed house for Thom Browne, as the American designer presented his latest humorous historical mix-up inside the Beaux Arts of Paris’ Left Bank.
Few houses are having a greater impact on fashion today than Balenciaga, thanks above all to the tenure of its Georgian émigré creative director Demna Gvasalia, who sent out a musing on...
We witnessed the comeback of powerful beauty at Elie Saab, in a show that referenced African color, design and attitude.
A key test of a designer is influence – and few have had so much influence this century as Hedi Slimane, creative director of Celine, who sent out a haut bobo collection on Friday with...
One of fashion’s greatest poets, Yohji Yamamoto, presented his latest collection Friday night in Paris, and the designer was in a lyrical, yet somber mood as he reflected on our planet’s...
Balmain referenced the past this season, but unlike so many collections these days which looked back at the '80s, these clothes harked back to the beginning of the century.
Few shows for Loewe by Jonathan Anderson have looked quite so Latin, so redolent of the Iberian Peninsula and its grandiose history, as his latest display on a sunny Friday morning in Paris.
It is hard to imagine a more contemporary designer than Virgil Abloh, who staged his latest show inside France’s greatest temple to contemporary art, the Pompidou Centre. But then was...
A New Wave revival with a flamenco flourish at Carmen March, a Spanish designer who manages to combine posh punk with Spanish poise.
Rick Owens went back to his roots in North America this Thursday in Paris, but south of the border this season, not north of the Rio Grande.
Patou made its return to the Paris season after a three-decade hiatus with a revival of relaxed ladylike style, ready-to-wear with a surprisingly couture touch.
In Britain, where John Galliano hails from, they have an institution formerly known as the Territorial Army. Galliano at Maison Margiela formed a new corps, a Transgressive Army, for the...
Lanvin’s creative director Bruno Sialelli presented an inspirational, naive, quirky and jaunty collection for spring 2020 in a walled garden in Paris on Wednesday.
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