Lanvin Shapes Up

I don’t need to say much here as the images say it all but let’s just say these are by far the most impressive ads for autumn winter 2007-8 I’ve seen yet.  Shot by Steven Meisel, they serve only one purpose and that is to stamp that Lanvin AW07-8 sillhouette into your head so that… Continue reading Lanvin Shapes Up

Space Out

What is that sillhouette through all the blue smokey haze? Glimpses of interlocking silver. One literal interpretation of space age fashion? Perhaps, but Matthieu Blazy’s final year collection at the La Cambre Mode show (catwalk pics of all graduates here), which I attended a few weeks ago, was a highly finished, superb spectacle even if… Continue reading Space Out

Pugh in Public

When I first heart that V&A’s Fashion in Motion, which sets out to bring catwalk shows of big designers to the public, would be focusing on Gareth Pugh, I was a little baffled.  Pugh has only really had 2 full blown LFW seasons (not counting his earlier Fashion East/graduate stuff) and in all honesty, would… Continue reading Pugh in Public