Nerhera’s men’s and women’s collections shared the same theme: Daisies, a 1966 Czech New Wave film. “It’s about two main characters who feel that society is corrupted by power and materialism, so they have no obligation to behave properly either,” explained Ladislav Zdút. Their “form of resistance is not following the rules,” which is something...
Scroll through Instagram these days, and you’re as likely to come across a sponsored influencer post as a photo of a starving child. Or, if the algorithm is in your favor, you might stumble upon one of those AI-powered videos that make the paintings of Johannes Vermeer come to life. Faced with a daily torrent...
It could be five years before we take the escalators up to the top of the Pompidou Centre again. The museum is closing for a massive renovation and Schiaparelli’s show last night was among the last events before work begins. It was here a year-and-a-half ago that Daniel Roseberry saw a Brancusi exhibit that was...
Viktor Horsting and Rolf Snoeren have returned to ready-to-wear with a unique proposition: “It’s an exercise in how to take couture ideas and use them to make a wearable proposition for a woman,” the former said. “So you have something that’s recognizable, but also something that’s hopefully new or surprising or different, but still wearable.”...
At his men’s show in June, Rick Owens’s models took a full dip in the Palais de Tokyo’s fountain. Today being early October, with the leaves changing in the trees alongside the Seine, his female models were merely asked to climb down a set of metal bleachers and wade through the knee-high water. As they...
The last couple of shows that I’ve seen by Avenir, the Berlin-based zero waste upcycling brand by Sophie Claussen and Maximilian Luers, took quotidian reality and made a charming thing of it: a city life tableaux held outside where you didn’t know at first who was walking the show and who was just walking down...
As the nights close in and the leaves begin to crunch underfoot, how comforting to see a collection inspired by 1950s bathing beauties, seaside romps and scuba style. “I grew up in Brittany, by the sea, and wanted to have that feel, that beach-y, improvised feel of dressing,” said Julien Dossena, who wanted the clothes...