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…
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…
NIGHT OF STARS: Budget cuts? What budget cuts? Kering may be on a cost-cutting drive under new chief executive officer Luca de Meo, but you wouldn’t know it from the bombastic show Saint Laurent staged…
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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…
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…
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…