At Area’s tenth anniversary show this morning, you could hear the models’ Cuban-heeled boots stomping on the runway before you saw the first look: a navy suit with a wide shouldered jacket, accessorized with a matching officer’s cap worn low on the face, obscuring the eyes but not the attitude. “It’s been 10 years of … Read more
Gaurav Gupta was forced to cancel his fall couture show in Paris last month due to an urgent personal matter; this collection was presented in a private showroom and via a video on social media instead. It was an unfortunate circumstance for Gupta, who joined the Paris couture schedule in January of last year and … Read more
A new entry on the couture calendar, Bahareh Ardakani came to Paris by way of Tehran, where she was born, but mainly Sweden, where her family moved before her first birthday. A mathematician and design engineer by training, she switched course to fulfill a dream of becoming a fashion designer, picking up a gemology degree … Read more
By my reckoning, of all the names that have guest-designed Jean Paul Gaultier collections since the project started mid-pandemic, Nicolas Di Felice is the greenest. In fact, his debut at Courrèges happened the same year that this Gaultier collaborations concept got off the ground—2021. But if Di Felice has less runway experience than predecessors like … Read more
Searching for a sense of serenity he thinks has gone missing in the world—he’s not wrong!—Giorgio Armani landed on the pearl, a symbol of wisdom and purity across cultures, as his press notes pointed out. At the start of the show, the pearl reference translated as lustrous suiting, cut with the soft sharpness that is … Read more
