Isabel Marant must be one of the most copied designers around today. Not quite a household name in the way some other designers are, you must surely remember those high-heeled trainers, conical heel ankle boots and chain-wrapped longer boots? And the draped mini skirts that are all over the high street right now? Pure Marant.
Prada collections often divide into two categories. The sublimely perfect and unforgettable. The collections you can mention and everyone (at least everyone in fashion) remembers. Then there are those that are less enduring, that you struggle to reacll. Whether one sells better than another, Prada never actually says, but with the company struggling to get…
The buzz around the Burberry show in London yesterday evening was almost deafening as London fashion week geared up for what’s always its hottest ticket. And of course, the celebrities, the live orchestra, the first full see now-buy now collection, the combined men’s and women’s collections… it all added up to an ‘event’. But what…
Mulberry’s turnaround is still a work in progress so the impact its runway collection makes is a big deal. Last season, Johnny Cocoa’s debut didn’t exactly see the champagne corks popping. But yesterday in London he got a thumbs-up, albeit a conditional one, for the continuing evolution of his new vision for the label.
Usually, when designers axe their secondary collections and “merge” them into their main lines, the character of the cancelled label disappears into that of the big sister one. But it’s a funny thing that ever since Marc Jacobs canned his younger, cheaper Marc by Marc Jacobs offer, the big sister has behaved more like its…
Years ago fashion shows were sedate affairs. No music, very little movement apart from a haughty glide on the part of the models, and the announcement of each look’s number. But that was then and this is now and even a relatively conservative label like Michael Kors Collection can give us Rufus Wainwright belting out…
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…
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…
The traditional view of Chinese manufacturing is of giant factories full of low-paid workers producing goods that Western countries just can’t produce quite as cheaply any more. And that view was correct… one upon a time. But a lot of cheap manufacturing has moved to other countries as wages in China rise along with educational…
There’s a huge buzz around this runway season as it’s the one where the whole ‘show now, buy now, wear now’ movement really kicks in. And there’s a huge buzz around the ad campaigns that are being released thick and fast at the moment. So when Burberry releases teaser images from its upcoming collection via…
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