What’s the house music look? According to house fan Charaf Tajer, there isn’t one, so he created it based on the kids, clubs like the Haçienda in Manchester and raves he’s known through the years. “There’s no one style, everyone is welcome in those clubs, and there’s a sense of unity,” said Tajer, who said…
“Do you dare enter…the House of Dior?” With these words projected on a giant screen, Jonathan Anderson opened his first womenswear show for the French fashion house. Call it his way of throwing down the gauntlet, now that everyone’s a critic. The atmosphere inside the tent in the Tuileries gardens was electric: Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlize…
Economy in design and a focus on natural textiles doesn’t mean you have to settle for a beige palette and austere shapes. Avoiding those tropes was paramount in the sophomore collection of Icicle Atelier, the premium offering of the Shanghai- and Paris-based fashion brand. Creative director Bénédicte Laloux said she wanted something airier, with colors…
The invitation for the Courrèges show at Paris Fashion Week was a pair of black sunglasses. “Bring me to the show,” read the fine print at the bottom of the box. Not everyone got the memo: while front-row guests Naomi Watts and Emma Chamberlain donned the wraparound sunnies, Kim Petras and Wooyoung, of K-pop band…
Musicians always say the second album is the hardest. After their critically acclaimed debut last season, you might expect Hannah Rose Dalton and Steven Raj Bhaskaran, the creative duo behind Matières Fécales, to hit a similar creative drought. It turns out, the Canadian couple already have their first four collections mapped out. “It’s been a…
Some runways this season are tilting away from the red carpet — and toward wall-to-wall carpeting, area rugs and bath mats. These include Louis Vuitton, where Nicolas Ghesquière, a wiz at VIP dressing, turned his attention to homebodies for spring — and it looks inviting. “In praise of intimacy, dressing for yourself first,” Ghesquière told…
Anthony Vaccarello, creative director of Saint Laurent since 2016, is well aware of the exceptional context of this European fashion season, bulging with a dozen or so big designer debuts that are bound to win the attention sweepstakes. Or maybe not. “It’s my 30th show,” he noted backstage, going on to explain that his approach…
J.J. Martin was inspired by a recent trip to Turkey, where she cohosted a spiritual trip and was introduced to the “whirling dervish, which is a form of meditation where the men are in these incredible, voluminous spurs, and they’re spinning for 30 minutes without stopping, and it’s this incredible trance state where they are…
Philipp Plein, preppy? It may sound like a shocker, but Plein sent out V-neck tennis sweaters with stripes, navy blazers with crests and all-white tailored suits, onto his shadowy, glitter ball runway on Saturday night. It was an homage, he said, to the pure, monochrome uniform of tennis players before Andre Agassi landed on the…
Louise Trotter has fallen in love with Bottega Veneta’s signature Intrecciato leather weave, celebrating its 50th anniversary this year and winning a starring role in the British designer’s solid debut. “The most beautiful thing about Bottega Veneta is that it’s really a workshop,” she said during a preview ahead of her fashion show Saturday afternoon….