Kate and Laura Mulleavy looked to the movies for Rodarte’s spring collection. “We were inspired by a kind of a dreamscape which links us between two worlds,” said Kate on a video call. “One was the film Three Women, and the other was Midsummer Night’s Dream.” The designers were thinking of “the dream-like element of...
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...
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...