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Like many designers, Carven‘s Guillaume Henry was preoccupied with the nineties this season. And he found an appealing angle into the era, conjuring not its sneering riot grrrls but its sweethearts. “I was thinking about the girls I went to … Continue reading
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As couturiers, Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli found the idea of the wunderkammerparticularly appealing. “In a cabinet of curiosities, the pieces are very unique, very one-of-a-kind,” Piccioli said. “We’ve tried to make something that is not only special, but … Continue reading
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If fashion is alchemy of a kind, Maison Martin Margiela‘s Artisanal initiative is one of its most explicit expressions. Pieces from other times and places are restored, reworked, sometimes remade. Their provenance and the amount of man hours spent transforming … Continue reading
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Something definitely felt different at Iceberg today. And that was no accident: The brand can’t yet reveal the name of its new designer, but it has one, and consequently this collection exuded a fresh point of view. The designer-who-cannot-be-named took a … Continue reading
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“In order to be extraordinary, we must always be different in a sophisticated way. I want to create clothes that make men and women feel confident, sophisticated, yet, wearable.” says the designer Ying Cai. Cai was born in a … Continue reading
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Prabal Gurung charted a new path for himself this season. Citing his long training at Bill Blass, he said he wanted to get back to “elegant, chic, refined clothes…American sportswear, but with couture ideals.” Throughout the past couple of … Continue reading
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‘s FF insignia was originally a sixties thing that stood for Fun Furs. Somehow it became codified as the corporate logo. Today, with his 96th (!!!) collection for the house, Karl Lagerfeld restored that original inflection. Which was simply … Continue reading
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Christopher Bailey hasn’t been carrying the Burberry standard as long as the Prorsum knight, but he’s certainly carried it as honorably. Still, the man is only human. After more than a decade of taking inspiration from the company’s noble … Continue reading
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Coats are the new accessories. In a cold, snowy Milan they’ve become by necessity a much more important element of what showgoers are wearing than this It shoe or that one. The runways are telling the same story for … Continue reading
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Humor isn’t the first thing that comes to mind when you think of Fendi. But a quick perusal of this season’s lookbook, in which the models prop themselves up on giant fur-covered blocks (themselves echoes of the fur-covered doodads that … Continue reading
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