Saudi couturier Tima Abid opened the third edition of Riyadh Fashion Week, which debuted a spectacular open-air runway venue tucked into a red rock canyon, and abuzz with drone cameras. Opening her display with models shrouded in dramatic layers of black hoods, capes and gowns, Abid told an affecting story of loss, grief and stoicism,…
For Ottolinger’s latest runway presentation, the brand’s signature body-skimming moto pants received a reinvention. Departing from the usual stretch fabrics, Berlin-based design duo Christa Bösch and Cosima Gadient intermixed them with non-stretch materials, creating silky trousers punctuated by strategic black graphic inserts that read almost as trompe l’oeil hourglass silhouettes and further emphasized the models’…
After seeing Matthieu Blazy’s clever reboot of Chanel Monday night, one might have sat front row at the Pierre Cardin show wondering, what could be done to make this brand feel current? The entire collection, designed by Cardin’s nephew and chosen heir Rodrigo Basilicati, was built on the foundations of black or white back-zipped catsuits…
Mitsuru Nishizaki is feeling the heat. For the second season in a row, he explained that rising temperatures in Japan had been the starting point. This played well with the layered, deconstructed tailoring he excels at, with roomy jackets in menswear fabrics sliced open at the sides and shirt dresses given airy holes highlighting the…
Nicky Zimmermann’s shows are not just about nice dresses, though her Zimmermann label reliably turns out the kind of breezy resort looks popularized by “The White Lotus.” She will usually mine a more or less obscure facet of Australian culture as a show theme, providing a bridge between Paris and Sydney that mirrors the creative…
The planets aligned for Chanel in Paris on Monday night. After months of excruciating buildup, Matthieu Blazy delivered a case study in brand rejuvenation with a show at the Grand Palais that managed to feel both spectacular and unexpectedly intimate. Newly (re)minted brand ambassador Nicole Kidman, flanked by her daughters Sunday Rose and Faith Margaret,…
Magda Butrym said she had a eureka moment for spring 2026 after seeing fellow famed Polish artist Paulina Olowska’s “Windows of the Wind” exhibition in Geneva, which featured several oil paintings depicting women wearing hats in winter. “Me designing for women and her painting women — I just had this instant creative connection with her….
Florentina Leitner is in the mood for love — the messy, heartbreaking kind. At an underground space in Paris, models walked out between two old cars as if they were teenage girls trying to sneak out of the house in the middle of the night via the garage for a night out with the new…
Packing for Burning Man, or perhaps a summer jaunt to Mars? Duran Lantink has you covered with a Jean Paul Gaultier debut filled with futuristic pneumatic silhouettes that seemed right out of a sci-fi fever dream — or whatever happened in the antechamber to his show in the bowels of the Musée du Quai Branly,…
The invitation for the Valentino show this season came with a packet of glow sticks. It was one way to fight your way through the ambient gloom. Creative director Alessandro Michele has been struggling to make sense of his job at a time when many people are simply struggling to survive. He came across a…