John Galliano for Maison Margiela, Fall 2017 Ready-to-Wear It would take a very long time indeed to describe some of the outfits John Galliano dreamed up at Maison Margiela for Fall—and even then, the words might not help at all. Put simply: It seemed to be an exercise in cutting out pieces of clothing and… Continue reading Maison Margiela, Fall 2017 Ready-to-Wear
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Hood By Air Menswear Spring 2017, Paris
Hood By Air Menswear Spring 2017, Paris Hood By Air makes things difficult. These images were shot days after its Spring 2017 show in Paris, a frenzied cruise in semi-darkness through a gay sauna in a seedy part of the Marais that culminated in a synchronized swim in the hammam’s subterranean pool (don’t think: Busby… Continue reading Hood By Air Menswear Spring 2017, Paris
Vetements Spring 2017 Ready To Wear, Couture Season Fall 2016, Paris
Vetements Spring 2017 Ready To Wear, Couture Season Fall 2016, Paris The Gvasalia brothers, Demna, the designer, and Guram, the business brains behind the Vetements phenomenon, pulled off a coup for the fashion credibility of Paris with a show in the Galeries Lafayette tonight. On many levels, it was an event which satirically contravened half… Continue reading Vetements Spring 2017 Ready To Wear, Couture Season Fall 2016, Paris
Gosha Rubchinskiy Menswear Spring 2017 Florence
Gosha Rubchinskiy Menswear Spring 2017, Florence A change of scenery, a change of pace. The menswear designer invited by Pitti Immagine to stage a show in Florence for Spring 2017 is Gosha Rubchinskiy. Moscow born, based, and somewhat obsessed, his collections thus far have unraveled his Soviet identity, nostalgically harking back to the time… Continue reading Gosha Rubchinskiy Menswear Spring 2017 Florence
Resort 2016: Louis Vuitton by Nicolas Ghesquière
Louis Vuitton by Nicolas Ghesquière, Resort 2016, 2015 The Resort season has turned into a mini architecture tour. Karl Lagerfeld set up Chanel operations at Zaha Hadid’s Dongdaemun Design Plaza in Seoul on Monday. Raf Simons will show Dior at Pierre Cardin’s south of France home next week. And today Louis Vuitton had over 800… Continue reading Resort 2016: Louis Vuitton by Nicolas Ghesquière
Fall 2015, Ready-to-Wear: Christian Dior
Christian Dior, Fall 2015, Ready-to-Wear, Paris, 2015 Throbbing Gristle’s “Hot on the Heels of Love,” the piece of music that soundtracked the Christian Dior show today, has a chilly, slaphappy Fifty Shades quality that seemed tailor-made for a collection whose animal essence was fulsomely described by Raf Simons as “something more liberated, darker, more sexual.” Something… Continue reading Fall 2015, Ready-to-Wear: Christian Dior
Jil Sander, Fall 2015, Ready-to-Wear
Jil Sander, Fall 2015, Ready-to-Wear, Milan, 2015 Frédéric Sanchez’s soundtrack—a blurry, impressionistic, almost atonal mesh of Nico’s and Chet Baker’s versions of “My Funny Valentine”—suggested chaos. But the set was a precisely ordered group of colored pillars, like a geometric Stonehenge. Rodolfo Paglialunga imagined his new collection for Jil Sander forming somewhere between the chaos… Continue reading Jil Sander, Fall 2015, Ready-to-Wear
Céline Fall 2015 Ready-to-Wear
Phoebe Philo for Céline, Fall 2015, Paris, 2015 There is allegedly no such thing as coincidence, so presumably there’s some meaning to the fact that Phoebe Philo was showing her new Céline collection on International Women’s Day, even though she conceded that she was very conscious of walking a line between the responsibility that has been bestowed… Continue reading Céline Fall 2015 Ready-to-Wear
New York Fashion Week: Calvin Klein Collection, Spring / Summer 2014
Francisco Costa, Calvin Klein Collection, Spring 2014, New York Francisco Costa is celebrating his tenth anniversary at the helm of Calvin Klein this season. It’s a milestone, and the brand is doing it up: new Tribeca venue, A-list star power in the form of Nicole Kidman and Rooney Mara (the face of the label’s just-launched… Continue reading New York Fashion Week: Calvin Klein Collection, Spring / Summer 2014
Books: Neapolis, A poetic look at the world through prism of skateboarding
Neapolis, A poetic look at the world through prism of skateboarding, 2013 Self published book featuring works and words by : Rick Owens, Taro Hirano, Jean-Max Colard, Camille Vivier, Jérémie Egry & Aurélien Arbet, Eric Tabuchi, Audrey Corregan & Erik Haberfeld, Yann Gross, Andrew Phelps, Estelle Hanania, Jerry Hsu, Raphaël Zarka, Paul Virilio, and many more. 368… Continue reading Books: Neapolis, A poetic look at the world through prism of skateboarding