“Shocking and unexpected things happened while I was designing this collection,” Chitose Abe reflected (through a translator) after her men’s fall and women’s pre-fall collections had taken to the runway in Paris. “I feel grateful to have a simple, happy life, and so I really wanted to give a united message of love to everyone.” … Read more
This week, Reid Baker and Ines Amorim posted a clip to the Ernest W. Baker account that shows the full ambiance for this collection. It was shot in a ’70s-era bingo hall in their home base of Porto, all sleek and shiny and retro with gaudy splashes of chrome, neon, and gold. It was a … Read more
Marine Serre has been leavening her shows with menswear for a while now, and during the last three seasons has taken to showing her mainline during the men’s weeks in Paris. But what you see here, she said, is her first full and standalone menswear collection. “I’ve been building my masculine archetypes,” Serre said in … Read more
The disastrous flaw in this ERL collection was starkly obvious: you never let the surfer drive you to the prom. I won’t give away the full plot of this season’s Eli Russell Linnetz Don’t Look Now-influenced lookbook-meets-storyboard, but suffice it to say that the dude was 100 per cent baked. Linnetz sets up his collections … Read more
Is shouldn’t be surprising that Jun Takahashi is a Twin Peaks aficionado. There are any number of parallels between the designer’s embrace of strangeness and the unsettling series by David Lynch that has stood the test of time. With official authorization, this collection made use of title graphics, a series of stills from key moments—some … Read more
Call it a tale of two Cudis. Last Friday, a 33-ft sculpture of Kid Cudi was erected outside the Place de la Bourse, one of three monumental statues (the other two landed in New York and Long Beach) that depicted the rapper in streetwear with his arms outstretched, his eye sockets and open mouth beaming … Read more
Rag & Bone’s SVP of men’s design, Kyle Sweeney, is determined to make barrel-legged jeans the silhouette of the season. Fortunately for those who have gotten accustomed to the comfort of baggier styles, he’s still keeping the top portion of the jeans loose but tapering the legs for a slimmer look. “This season we were … Read more
With awards season in full swing, it’s Jenny Packham’s time to shine. Quite literally. If you’ve spent the past few weeks scrolling through the red carpet galleries from the Golden Globes and Critic’s Choice Awards (among the many, many other events taking place in Hollywood right now) you’ll have seen plenty of her gowns doing … Read more
Any puffer brand has a baked-in conundrum: Few people, and women least of all, want to look like the Michelin man. Judging by the front-row getups this PFW, ultimately they’d rather freeze. That’s where a brand like Rains has to get creative, which they did this season by staging a presentation in the frigid, hulled-out … Read more
Although France’s Bibliothèque Nationale (National Library) Richelieu site is positioned on the same street as the Kenzo studio, it made a great venue for tonight’s show for more than mere convenience. As Nigo had earlier explained, this Kenzo collection worked to connect multiple cultural references in order to concoct something that hit the eye as … Read more
