New York is a city where fashion and style take to the street, thanks to its condensed and walkable nature and the proliferation of public transport. Thus, designers needn’t look further than outside their studio windows for inspiration. The Fall/Winter 2024 season kick-off homed in on that sentiment. See catwalkHelmut Lang – Fall-Winter2024 – 2025 … Read more
Few designers will have as much impact this season, for men or women, as Chitose Abe, whose Sunday afternoon show in Paris was a smash hit of composite cool and assembled attitude. See catwalkSacai – Fall-Winter2024 – 2025 – Menswear – France – Paris – ©Launchmetrics/spotlight Staged inside the Carreau du Temple, a late 19th-century … Read more
British fashion designer John Galliano, pre-implosion, was a major emerging talent at the start of the decade, obsessed with the ’30s technique of bias cutting, pioneered by French fashion designer Madeleine Vionnet – slicing across fabric to create languidly elegant clothes. Princess Diana at the Royal Albert Hall in 1997. She is wearing a dress … Read more
Amid the daily chaos, there’s something comforting about having a system of dressing that’s modular, minimalist and sexy. That’s Peter Do’s vision for Helmut Lang, and it’s starting to gel beautifully. For his pre-fall 2024 release, he shot short videos of models in each one of his looks in motion on the streets of different … Read more
