Freddy Coomes and Matt Empringham are the designers behind Aletta, the quirky London startup they named after Coomes’s mother. This bright pair of Central Saint Martins graduates (BA class of ’24) is currently giving the…
“When everything fades, what remains is the essential,” said Giorgia Gabriele more than once. She was keen to stress that essential is not a synonym for aesthetic minimalism. Rather, it is a work of subtraction…
Say it ain’t so. This was the final time we would ever see newly designed clothes conceived by Giorgo Armani on the runway. Although in many ways, of course, they weren’t new at all. For…
In fashion, designers almost never get to script their own farewells. The industry is partial to the pomp of a corporate beheading, delivered with a press release dipped in rosewater by the executioner. You’re “parting…
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.…
Today, the devil wore Dolce & Gabbana. Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana had the celebrity gets of the season: With movie-perfect timing, Meryl Streep and Stanley Tucci, dressed in character as Miranda Priestly and Nigel…
“I’m in the candy box,” Louise Trotter told a group of reporters backstage. Her appointment to Bottega Veneta last December made Trotter the sole woman to score a creative director job in a sweeping round…
Elisabetta Franchi’s spring show was held once again at Palazzo Acerbi, the opulent 17th-century building in the Baroque style in central Milan. The designer revealed backstage that she had just completed the acquisition of the…
Galib Gassanof’s work is more attuned to artistry and research-intensive craft than mundane dressmaking. For his recent solo fashion project Institution, the designer’s aim has been so far, and is for now, to explore what…
The Versace blazer and jeans that Julia Roberts wore during the Venice Film Festival — evoking consternation online about its new chief creative officer Dario Vitali — was probably no fluke. “I’ve never really been…