Giorgio Armani has opened a new accessories boutique in Milan’s increasingly upscale Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II shopping arcade, already home to Prada, Gucci and Louis Vuitton, and soon to welcome a new Versace store. Spread across two levels, the Armani boutique has two windows that look out directly onto the Galleria, and its interior — […]
While working with the same material season after season is bound to be creatively constricting at times, designers Max and Lubov Azria continue to push things forward by ramping up the label’s separates and exploring different fabrication techniques. For the Hervé Léger Pre-Fall 2014 collection, the duo updated several of their hallmark body-con cocktail dresses with […]
The Michael Kors Pre-Fall 2014 collection featured tomboy glamour. He opened with a double-breasted camel coat, an oversize blue shirt, and slouchy yet tailored gray pants, worn with crocodile sneakers, a first for the label. Menswear vibe established, he started riffing: embroidering sky-blue chinos with rhinestones in a paisley motif, accessorizing a foulard-print pantsuit with […]
Dean and Dan Caten were inspired by swinging London for the Dsquared² Pre-Fall 2014 collection. Designing the lineup for a contemporary Twiggy, the duo cut skirts and dresses dangerously short, while long-sleeved turtlenecks and overcoats added a cozy feel. A black wool cape embellished with patent leather details topped a black mini, and a sleeveless beige […]
For Oscar de la Renta Pre-Fall 2014 collection, the inspiration points were just as varied: some shapes borrowed from Japanese fashion; vivid colors from Zurbarán, the great Spanish Golden Age painter. The collection featured bright, bold tailoring—a royal purple skirtsuit with a double-faced cashmere/angora bomber jacket, or an elongated gilet over matching forest green trousers—was […]
For the Helmut Lang Pre-Fall 2014 collection, layering was so central to designers Nicole and Michael Colovos this season that they created short dresses with multiple hems to produce a trompe l’oeil effect. Other times, the designers piled as many as four different items into one look; in that case, what was imperative was keeping […]
Inspired by Nigel Shafran’s 1990s photographs of English council-estate kids, their smart new Rag & Bone Pre-Fall 2014 collection is a reminder of their UK roots. Like Shafran’s pictures, R&B’s clothes this season are graphic black-and-white, with athletic elements modeled after the shell suits the teenagers wear in the photographs. Wainwright and Neville’s versions are elevated […]
The Missoni Pre-Fall 2014 collection featured bell-bottoms, minis, knit blouses with glam ruffled collars. One of the interesting things about this lineup was its emphasis on knit pattern outside the usual Missoni ken—there was a token amount of the signature wave and zigzag, but most of the real estate in this collection was occupied by […]
Berlin was the impetus behind the 3.1 Phillip Lim Pre-Fall 2014 collection. He was fascinated by the “percolating current of rave culture” there. That culture is super modern—even if rave’s first heyday was somewhere circa the nineties—and coexists with Berlin’s crumbling stateliness. “They’re living in a transitional landscape,” he said. You can twist your glow sticks […]
In commemoration of Chanel’s latest Métier d’Art fashion show in Dallas, Texas, Karl Lagerfeld directed this short film called “The Return” to celebrate. In December 1953, Coco Chanel began her incredible return to center stage. The designer reopens her Haute Couture house after fifteen years of absence. The collection is welcomed by the French press with an […]
Alexander Wang has created a collection for Beats by Dr. Dre, including an updated version of the studio headphones Beats Studio, urBeats earphone and speaker Beats Pill. The collection reflects the signature minimalistic style of Alexander Wang’s brand with a hint of luxury. The headphones are made in opaque black plastic with bright accents of light gold metal. Each […]
Karl Lagerfeld has inspired an exclusive watch. The Rolex Oyster Perpetual Milgauss, customized by Bamford Watch Department in a special Lagerfeld version, is to go on sale today at Karl Lagerfeld flagship boutiques in Paris and Munich. The limited-edition timepieces are priced at 19,000 euros, or $25,820 at current exchange. The Milgauss, conceived as an […]