Marni Leans into the Curve
 

On the last full day of Milan Fashion Week, designer Consuelo Castiglioni wowed a haggard and rain-soaked audience with a Marni collection that beautifully challenged the status quo in terms of proportions …

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Missoni’s Fresh Approach
 

Freshness was the word of the day at the Missoni tonight. A new show venue, a casting of up-and-coming models and a collection that broadcast a relaxed vibe made for a very winning combination …

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Dolce and Gabbana’s Fairytale
 

Designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana decided that it was high time the industry got a fashion fairytale all its own. The duo put on a show filled with fabled princess archetypes and iconic …

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Gabriele Colangelo’s Homecoming
 

When we are young, it is perfectly normal to want to break free from the confines of family traditions and step out of from the shadow of past generations. That separation is also what…

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Bottega Veneta’s Modern Refinement
 

Chicissimo! Is that a word? Well, it is now, because how else to describe the refined yet vibrant beauty on display at Bottega Veneta? Tomas Maier created a collection that was both …

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Tod’s Stitched Up Style
 

Before the latest Tods womenswear collection could get underway, the fashion pack had to file past a tableau vivant created by the Italian artist Vanessa Beecroft…

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Giamba’s Youthful Rebel
 

Sugar and spice and everything nice, that was what Giambattista Valli offered fashion with his latest Giamba collection. A lineup that gave the designer’s own spin on the 80s revival currently inundating Milan Fashion Week.

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Versace’s Female Empowerment
 

The gang was all there. Gigi, Kendall, Karlie, Mariacarla, Jourdan and Natasha all walked the Versace catwalk on Friday night. And that was just the tip of the supermodel iceberg. There is …

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Marco de Vincenzo’s Fake Fashion
 

It had been a long time coming but on Friday afternoon, after fifteen years working at Fendi, designer Marco de Vincenzo finally presented his first signature handbags to the world.

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Iceberg’s Graphic Offering
 

For his sophomore show at Iceberg Arthur Arbesser turned to the dramatic work created by a group of architects that first made its mark in the 1960s, called Superstudio. Their claim to fame is an imaginative use of …

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London Calls to Etro
 

Anyone who went to a university in the early to mid 90s got what Veronica Etro was trying to say with her latest collection. Those unforgettable college years where self-exploration had as much to do…

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Emporio Armani’s Electric Dream
 

In a surprise move Giorgio Armani produced an Emporio collection that was full of color, bold geometry and eye-catching textural match-ups. Remember Armani is a man who hasn’t met a …

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Antidote présente « The Now Generation Issue » Été 2016

Génération NOW ou un regard qui se pose sur notre temps. Une génération en quête d’identité et d’individualité. Une génération qui assume son anticonformisme, ses tabous, sans frontière, sans limite …

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Fendi Rides a Fashion Wave
 

At Fendi, Karl Lagerfeld was having a fashion brainwave. His entire collection rode on the crest of undulating waves that stood out like three-dimensional sartorial sentinels on almost every garment …

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Max Mara’s Bauhaus Beauties
 

The Max Mara design team name-checked Constructivism, Modernism and Dadaism in the first line of its fall/winter 2016 show notes and also suggested that an energetic uprising of genre-defying women from the 1930s were at …

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Pucci’s Mountain Peak
 

What a difference six months can make. Just like his predecessor Peter Dundas with his new gig at Roberto Cavalli the day before, designer Massimo Giorgetti made a concerted effort this season to return to …

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Prada’s Woman in Every Port
 

For those who saw Miuccia Prada’s menswear show in January, the womenswear collection she presented on Thursday night felt like a return to the same port she had already visited last month. This is understandable seeing as she …

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Moschino is a Fire Starter
 

Jeremy Scott was on fire this Thursday night with a show that was smoking hot. And this being Moschino, it meant the designer’s evening gowns were quite literally puffing out plumes of smoke as the models took their turns on the catwalk.

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Costume National’s Easy New Attitude
 

Designer Ennio Capasa was full of surprises on Thursday afternoon. His Costume National show took his brand in a pleasing new direction that reenergized the house with color, new proportions and …

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Le retour du vulgaire

Certains auraient préféré l’oublier, prétendre n’avoir jamais complété l’ensemble velours Juicy Couture d’une casquette Von Dutch et supprimer de façon irréversible les vidéos du concert des Destiny’s Child …

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Roberto Cavalli’s Roots
 

After last season’s debut, which was met with a lukewarm reception at best, designer Peter Dundas went back to Roberto Cavalli’s roots with a collection that oozed rock and roll glamour and after-dark allure.

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Fausto Puglisi Tries to Connect
 

Fausto Puglisi was feeling nostalgic this season. The Italian designer decided it was time to bring together all the things he loves into one collection. Or as he said after his show on Wednesday night, « it’s all about …

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Ferretti’s Flight of Fancy
 

The video backdrop to Alberta Ferretti’s show on the first day of Milan Fashion Week showed the barren winter trees in New York’s Central Park. Nature surrounded by a concrete city, its beauty that much more precious…

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N21 Goes Grunge
 

Over the years Alessando Dell’Acqua has built his signature brand on his ability to rework season after season a mix of classic masculine and feminine sartorial staples, twisting their underlying constructs so that his creations…

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Gucci’s Veiled Viewpoint
 

During the Gucci menswear show in January, designer Alessandro Michele obscured the catwalk with a smoky haze. Today for his womenswear presentation, he placed a gossamer screen between …

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Rencontre avec Petite Noir
 

Oublions l’orthographe douteuse du nom de scène de ce jeune musicien baptisé Yannick Ilunga. Né à Bruxelles d’un père congolais et d’une mère angolaise, sud-africain d’adoption et souvent de passage à Londres, il ne choisit pas entre…

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Alexandra Jubé : « Les valeurs digitales ont changé les valeurs sociétales »

Elle comprend mieux que vous le monde qui l’entoure. À 32 ans, Alexandra Jubé est responsable insight chez Nelly Rodi, l’une des agences majeures de prospective parisiennes. Son job? Étudier les nouvelles attitudes, les futurs …

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Calvin Klein- Fashion Rocks
 

Francisco Costa continues to be one of the few fashion designers showing at New York Fashion Week that continually evolves the DNA of the brand he represents. From one season to the next …

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Ralph Lauren’s Luxe Ladies
 

There were two sides to Ralph Lauren’s sartorial story on the final day of New York Fashion Week. The first was all about chic, comfy and discrete daywear in non-threatening shades of taupe …

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Humanité et animalité, le paradoxe incarné

Aux yeux des philosophes, éthologues, zoologistes, et autres spécialistes des sciences du vivant, la cause est entendue : il existe bien une différence, sinon de nature, au moins de degrés, entre l’homme et l’animal.

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