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The Milan spring-summer 2017 menswear shows were marked by one dominant idea, that of escape. There was a real sense that designers felt that men were in desperate need of taking some time off to trek out into the wilderness, disconnect or at the very least get their bodies back in sync through some wholesome living.

Although the menswear show that designer Alessandro Michele presented in an emerald green venue on Monday was the final one before the Gucci brand folds the line into its future womenswear presentations, it proved that the Gucci man is still more then capable of standing on his own in terms of creativity and whimsical flair.

Miuccia Prada is a designer who is always looking for new sartorial heights to climb. And ascend she did with a strong collection that not so much pushed fashion to new peaks as it proved that the designer has her finger on the pulse of fashion.

In a Milan menswear spring-summer 2017 season that is missing quite a few familiar faces in terms of brands showing their collections it was a treat to see the Marni menswear line, which only recently started doing a runway show, really come into its own on the catwalk.

19-year-old designer Vejas Kruszewski just won special LVMH 2016 fashion prize. This young self-taught Canadian launched his eponymous label after graduating high-school and is probably fashion’s next big thing. Antidote met him.

Top model Anja Rubik’s carreer is an exception. Uncommon icon of an uncompromising industry, she was astute enough to anticipate the need for reconversion. Editor-in-chief of her own magazine called 25, she recently launched her eponymous fragrance. 32-year-old Polish model also designed an exclusive summer collection for Parisian label Iro. Interview.

Il y a une génération, l’industrie de la mode révérait l’expérience. Elle célébrait les indiscutables maestros du style, ces hommes et femmes dont les vêtements reflétaient leurs décennies d’apprentissage en atelier, riches de leur sagesse forgée au fil d’innombrables avec leurs clients. Qu’un créateur se soit formé dans une maison ou une autre voulait dire quelque chose. Et en effet, tous les créateurs avaient mené leur apprentissage jusqu’à son terme. Ça se passait comme ça. À l’époque.

Recently cultural appropriation has become a hot button topic. Social media platforms are ablaze with outcry over celebrities, fashion designers and brands continually taking on the codes of minority cultures. But how do we objectively define the boundary between showing appreciation of a culture or blindly appropriating it? The answer isn’t clear cut.

En 3 ans, elle s’est plus métamorphosée que le Forum des Halles. Passée du statut de vilaine cadette à celui d’icône, Kylie Jenner démocratise le port de la perruque arc-en-ciel, est à la tête d’une entreprise de cosmétiques prospère et relance Von Dutch en solitaire.

Its straight-forward agenda of sharing images and videos has made Instagram the clear winner when it comes to holding a viewer’s interest in an industry that as a whole has been struck with a sort of attention deficit disorder. Fashion blogger BryanBoy followed by more than 600 000 people, and Eva Chen, Instagram’s head of fashion partnerships, met up in New York to talk about all things Insta.

Forget spending hours looking for looks. Stylists, we introduce you to TagWalk. You’re welcome.

Here in an exclusive interview, accompanied by an Antidote Magazine photo shoot of the Marni Menswear Spring 2016 collection, Castiglioni opens up about her menswear, the « see now, buy now » phenomenon and her favorite guilty pleasure.

Dans un pays, tel que l’Italie, où la moindre initiative est paralysée par une mentalité aussi immuable que les ruines archéologiques sur lesquelles il s’est bâti, le monde de la mode s’est mis en mouvement. Alors que les faits d’armes de la vieille oligarchie de la mode se font de plus en plus rares, de nouveaux talents émergent et tendent à éclipser les pères fondateurs.

With her digital magazine « LEAF », which she publishes on the leading Chinese platform WeChat, Greener has become — in just a few years — one of China’s most influential fashion personalities. Courted by leading western luxury houses, she has made a business out of educating her compatriots on the art of fashion while she continues to fight for more creative freedom in her home country, which is still plagued by repression.

The arrival of « see now, buy now » shopping, the end of seasons and the current state of fashion houses a drift without head designers has had ripple effects throughout the industry. Notable fashion critics are starting to question what their role will be in the new fashion world order. Here Christina Binkley, Carine Bizet, Susie Lau, Sophie Fontanel and Fabrice Léonard weight in.

With rumors swirling around him that he will soon be named the new creative director of Saint Laurent, Anthony Vaccarello sat down with Antidote magazine to talk about his signature brand and what it took, against all odds, to make a name for himself in fashion.

Outre les tourments du débat du “see now, buy now” auxquels fait face l’industrie de la mode, une autre situation complexe semble se dessiner. En mal de confidentialité et obsédée par l’instantané, la mode cherche farouchement son nouvel équilibre. L’éventuelle solution ? Un unique premier rang.

In an exclusive interview, Gucci’s creative director Alessandro Michele opens up to Antidote Magazine about his vision for the brand, his most prized possessions and his fascination with the creepy side of beauty…

Leave it to Miuccia Prada to produce two of the strongest shows of the fashion month. She was the big winner in Milan with her traveling-sailor-inspired show. Here in Paris, on the final days of the collections …

The winter season is always the Moncler Gamme Rouge brand’s happy place. Designing for the cold weather is what this house does best and it showed in this season’s delightful collection created by …

It takes real talent to show a collection on the final day of a month of non-stop fashion shows and come up with something that looks totally original. But that is exactly what designer Nicolas Ghesquière did at …

White hot designer Virgil Abloh showed his Off-White womenswear collection for the first time on the official Paris Fashion Week calendar on Tuesday night. Last year Abloh made it all the way to the top eight finalists of the …

Following the Paris Fashion Week trend of smaller or more intimate sets for big fashion house shows, designers Humberto Leon and Carol Lim refrained from presenting their latest Kenzo collection in a giant pavilion or hall …

Once again, with a budget of maybe a tenth of that used by some of the big name brands, designer Iris van Herpen came up with a show concept that was one of the most creative of the entire Paris Fashion Week. The Dutch designer explored …

In a direct trickle down from their most recent haute couture show, designers Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli presented a Valentino collection inspired by the world of ballet. To the melodic notes of a baby grand piano…

At Chanel, Karl Lagerfeld transformed the vast Grand Palais into an extra large version of the interior of the real Chanel haute couture salon. In a move to make the larger-than-life fashion experience more intimate, he decided that …

What is always so appealing in the Sacai shows is that one look is never enough. This goes both for the person looking at one of Chitose Abe’s garments, and the garments themselves, which are …

On Monday, Sonia Rykiel’s creative director Julie de Libran decided it was time to leave the safety of the brand’s headquarters, where she has shown her collection for the past three seasons, and open herself up to the bigger …

The third time was the charm for Nadege Vanhee-Cybulski at Hermes today. After two seasons of such quiet, contemplative luxury that the clothing was almost slumberous in the shows, the creative director finally found her groove at …

A year ago Albert Kriemler created an Akris collection that was fifty shades of gray. Skip forward to today and this time red was where his passion lay.The design explored every shades of the hue on the color wheel from orange all …