If the first two days of couture comprised of the biggies of Chanel and Dior is about big sets and big ideas that get blared out to the world in a loud way, then the third day feels like it’s about experimentalism and more intimate settings of smaller houses, beginning with Maison Martin Margiela Artisanal… Continue reading Future Past: Part 2
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Future Past: Part 1
How handy that the narrative of my posts are flowing from one to the other. From Miu Miu Cruise’s retrogazing to Raf Simons at Dior dusting down the fashion history textbooks to breathe new life into old shapes, I now come to a two part round-up of this week’s A/W 14 haute couture shows. There’s… Continue reading Future Past: Part 1
Past Modernity
I should have known, after his Dior cruise show in New York, Raf Simons mentioned in passing about potentially exploring the “fantastical” that he had something up his sleeve. And so we got something fantastical for Dior’s latest couture A/W 14-5 show. A white drum of a set lit up like a space launchpad a… Continue reading Past Modernity
Last of the Croisière
The arrangement of flowers set into wooden geometric vases placed on the mirrored circular dinner tables at the Miu Miu cruise resort croisière (errr…just French for cruise…) show last night said almost as much as the clothes on the runway. It may be the first time that Miuccia Prada has joined in on the cruise show circuit, as… Continue reading Last of the Croisière