On Thursday, luxury Swedish fragrance brand Byredo reintroduced its high-concentration “extrait de parfum” collection, Night Veils. The line contains five fragrances created by longtime Byredo perfumer Jérôme Epinette, each priced at $400 for a 70 mL, and is available at Byredo boutiques and in its online direct-to-consumer store, as well as select retailers like Harrods....
Lela Rose’s design team is all-female. That’s why, she explained, it’s not enough for them to just make pretty dresses. They need to make wearable dresses too: “We’re super into things that are comfortable and that you can wear all the time because we’re in the clothes all day long every day,” she said. That...
Ganni choosing a presentation over a catwalk show for spring was not only unexpected; it was arguably an even more rebellious move than jumping from the Copenhagen calendar—where the brand became known for its blow-out shows—to the Paris one. “I think every time people do something that’s a little bit unexpected, it’s just interesting,” said...
Twelve years ago, when he was first starting out, Mossi Traoré managed somehow to stage a fashion show in Père-Lachaise cemetery. Absent an encore of that feat—a highly impressive one, given the red tape involved—the designer instead chose the blank canvas of an empty space on the Rue Commines. But he kept the inspiration, revisiting...
Published September 30, 2025 Antler has had a busy product launch programme in recent periods and it’s not easing up just yet with the company unveiling its new Discovery Collection, “marking a confident move into outdoor travel for the British travel brand”. Antler What we’re talking about here is luggage that’s all about practicality. The...
Spring found Ellen Hodakova Larsson on fine footing: the 2024 LVMH Prize winner introduced a new category this season—shoes. In keeping with the brand ethos, they were made using discarded leather. The slightly bulbous masculine toe cap was juxtaposed with a curvy, sturdy, wooden Louis heel. This was but one of many contrasts at play...
Twelve years ago, before he carved out his place in the Paris fashion ecosystem, Mossi Traoré staged a fashion show at Père Lachaise cemetery. This time round, Paris City Hall declined his request to show there, but he was unperturbed, determined to celebrate what he sees as the poetry of the famous graveyard, channeling it...
At first, you couldn’t tell it from ground level, but the banks of white hydrangeas we were all admiring—while the Eiffel Tower was busy doing its twinkling thing somewhere to our left—were actually laid out to spell YSL. (Drone footage revealed this on our phones, while we were simultaneously spectating on the arrivals of Hailey...
Christopher John Rogers typically holds runway shows once a year, so this season he was back in his lower Manhattan studio, showing Collection 16 by appointment. “Looking back, last season we were maybe looking at a lot of the external expectations, about what people were expecting from us, and leaning more into evening in a...
The persistent absence of women in top creative roles at major fashion houses is too striking to ignore. Yet when the doors to these positions remain closed, a saying comes to mind: If the mountain will not come to Muhammed, then Muhammed must go to the mountain. Ilenia Durazzi should choose this motto as her...