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…
Scorched-earth policies are so last season: Most designers making their debuts at European heritage houses for spring 2026 are paying homage to the creatives that came before them. Perhaps none more gallantly that Pierpaolo Piccioli, whose strong debut at Balenciaga on Saturday night drew many straight lines – and some dotted ones – to Cristóbal…
An avid reader, Stefano Gallici tries to squeeze in at least a 30-minute reading session before going to bed every day to wind down, detox from screen time and foster another of his passions, along the ever-present ones for music, photography and vintage thrifting. He seems not to have been immune from the 250th anniversary…
The main story at Gauchere this spring was transformation. Designer Marie-Christine Statz said she’d thought about metamorphosis, which she characterized as “these opposites, these floating moments.” In a bid to express the full potential of her clothes, she tapped choreographer Benjamin Millepied to show her spring collection in motion. They had worked together on a…
Humble fabrics have been a talking point this European season, many designers employing cotton and linen for grandiose silhouettes. At the Comme des Garçons show on Saturday night, Rei Kawakubo went way, way further, whorling burlap and calico into wondrous puffball shapes, stacking them up like scoops of hard ice cream — and occasionally adding…
Among the slew of designer debuts in Paris this season, Glenn Martens’ coed ready-to-wear collection for Maison Margiela was technically not a first, since he already set out his vision for the brand with his Artisanal show in July. That haute couture collection, which tilted the Paris house in a dark, daring and DIY direction,…
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In a moment where fashion shows have turned into splashy spectacles meant to be captured from every angle on myriad devices and evaluated by their resonance in the digital ether, Yohji Yamamoto wanted a more intimate experience. Not through a FOMO-inducing reduction in seating, mind you. A note left on each chair at his spring…