Are Maxwell Osborne and Dao-Yi Chow feeling the heat? After LVMH finally caved in and sold DKNY when G-III Apparel came up with an offer they couldn’t refuse, there are new owners in place at the label. And when that happens, designers know they have to up their game. They seem to have done so…
To call the Coach SS17 presentation yesterday a car crash of a show isn’t actually a criticism. In fact, the giant set that featured beaten up American classic cars piled on top of each other, car crash style, simply added to the collection’s overall theme. And that was? Well, 50s Americana of course. But this…
Fashion weeks are all about trends, right? Well yes, for most of us. But for the labels concerned, they’re actually about offering up a new vision of what a very specific set of customers who might want to buy-into that label will want to wear. It’s why some labels happily tread their own path leaving…
Exactly two years ago, the biggest runway story was the fact that the collections we’re awash with denim for SS15. Fast forward 24 months and designers may have calmed down a bit when it comes to high-end denim but that doesn’t mean it’s any less important as a trend fabric. In fact, it’s so important…
The silhouette may have looked grown up and unadventurous from a distance, but when you got in a little closer, Altuzarra felt surprisingly youthful, even joyful and definitely not one for those who prefer to keep their fashion discreet. Deceptively conservative pencil shaped skirts and slim blazers were revealed to be cut in snakeskin, decorated…
What was the best clue to one of the key trends for SS17 at Victoria Beckham’s show on Sunday? Was it the models or was it the pop-star-turned-serious-designer herself as she took her bow? Actually, it was the latter. The woman whose career has been notable for ultra-minis, wiggle dresses and skinny pants appeared in…
The SS17 action wasn’t all about what happened on the runways yesterday as four major names released the lookbooks for their secondary lines. Red Valentino, Sonia by Sonia Rykiel, M Missoni and McQ by Alexander McQueen all offered clues as to the direction this quartet of influencers will be following for their mainline labels, as…
Will you get your must-have items this autumn? It could all depend on whether a solution is found following the collapse of Korean shipping giant Hanjin. It seems around $10.8bn/£8bn worth of goods are stuck in or outside of ports and aren’t going anywhere anytime soon.
Debenhams opens in Australia in exactly one year’s time and it expects to make a major impact. The retailer is debuting in Melbourne in a deal with Pepkor and expects to take sales of around A$20m from the dominant players David Jones and Myer. How will it do that? By shaking up the affordable designer…
Welcome to the year 2000. That’s what it felt like watching Tom Ford’s latest runway collection yesterday. Is that a criticism? Not at all, because the collection was really rather good.
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