We know they call it Haute Couture in Paris, but it really should be rechristened Alta Moda a Parigi this month. For never before have we seen a French season so dominated by Italian talent.
One entered the world of supreme fashion fantasy at Valentino on Wednesday night in Paris, the finale of four days of haute couture runway shows and a very clear aesthetic statement on the importance of inclusivity.
Winston Churchill famously defined Russia as “a riddle, wrapped inside a mystery, inside an enigma.” Which is not a bad way to define the latest couture show by Jean Paul Gaultier staged Wednesday in Paris.
There can be few better couturiers to turn to than Elie Saab when the time comes to celebrate important moments in life - weddings, awards, key anniversaries all can elegantly be rejoiced in his fashion.
Judging by his latest collection; choice of music and light projections, John Galliano is in a reflective mood – as was evident in his latest fashion offering for Maison Margiela.
Clare Waight Keller must now be couture’s most potent image maker. Her latest collection was a tough poetic statement that confirmed her as a couturier of skill and importance.
Scenes of a great triumph at Armani Privé, where Giorgio Armani received a standing ovation for his Art Deco-meets-Asia collection from the audience inside the Petit Palais.
Stockholm Fashion Week has been cancelled, weeks before it was due to open its doors. The Swedish Fashion Council will focus on the development of a platform more relevant to today's industry, it said.
There’s a new gal at Chanel, both in the design department and on the runway. A brainy type, who even wears reading glasses on a catwalk and eschews anything too frivolous.
Russia’s Ulyana Sergeenko presented her 15th anniversary collection, inspired by the ancient Uzbek city and Silk Road trade hub of Samarkand, on Monday at Paris’ Palais de Tokyo.
The Indian designer, who has been showing his collections during Paris Fashion Week for the last five years, is preparing to make his couture debut in the French capital during this season's Haute Couture Week.
The art of using artistic references to inspire groundbreaking fashion has rarely been better expressed than in the latest haute couture show of Christian Dior.
One day after the Centre Pompidou announced plans to stage fashion exhibitions inside the giant museum of contemporary art, it was instructive to attend the latest collection by Iris van Herpen on Monday in Montmartre.
Fashion loves nothing more than a debut; and haute couture doubly so. Hence, one could almost touch the sense of anticipation at Schiaparelli on Monday morning for the couture debut of Texas-born Daniel Roseberry.
Bedraggled, half-thrown together and boasting lots of off-beat wit, the latest collection from Acne seen Sunday evening in Paris was a triumph of arty artifice and gutsy style.
