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 Kipling of Runway magazine, swooped in just as everyone else had taken their seats. Newcomer Simone Ashley, whose role in...
“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 of designer musical chairs that consumed fashion for the better part of a year. Rachel Scott getting the keys to...
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 palazzo and explained how she was first intrigued by the legend surrounding it. “The devil protected this building. I am...
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 a brand with commercial goals – and restraints – simply could not. A perfecto jacket with no armholes? Check. A...
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 interested in fantasy. I’m much more interested in reality,” Vitale declared during an interview Friday, roughly eight hours before his...
Once again, Palazzo Acerbi served as the quintessentially Milanese backdrop for Elisabetta Franchi’s show. This time, however, she invited her guests to step inside her world. Captivated by the aura of mystery around what is known as “the Devil’s House,” she sought to honor its history while envisioning her own future, transforming it into the...
Unveiled as ‘Act II’ of an ongoing narrative arc, Giuseppe Di Morabito’s second full scale show, ‘The Fall of Icarus,’ continued the emotional excavation that began last season. If ‘Alone with the Stars’ looked outward, into the future of AI and technological acceleration, this new chapter looked inward: to craft, childhood, memory, and myth. “We’re...