HIVER 2046
 

Dimanche 1er avril 2046, bois de Boulogne. La Nasa avait vu juste : le ralentissement de l’activité solaire s’était traduit par une chute exceptionnelle des températures. Depuis 2030, la mode répondait tant bien …

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Embracing the Now
 

When we decided to title the eleventh issue of Antidote Magazine, “Now Generation”, the goal was to really focus on the designers, social issues and cultural phenomena that are shaping the world we are …

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Miu Miu’s Womanly Wardrobe
 

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 …

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Moncler’s Swiss Style
 

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 …

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Louis Vuitton’s Modern Outlook
 

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 …

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Off-White’s Pretty Woman Syndrome
 

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 …

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Kenzo’s Cacophony

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 …

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Iris van Herpen’s Double Vision
 

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 …

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Valentino’s Ballet Beauties
 

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…

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Chanel’s Ready to Couture
 

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 …

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Sacai’s Embellished Vision
 

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 …

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Sonia Rykiel’s New Space
 

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 …

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Homecoming at Hermès
 

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 …

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Akris’s Wild Style
 

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 …

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McCartney Doubles Down on Comfort
 

Last month at the Oscars one of the most buzzed about dresses on the red carpet was a streamlined tangerine one shoulder number worn by Olivia Munn. It was a Stella McCartney design — and it was fabulous. Part of what made it so…

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Celine’s Twisted View
 

Watching the Celine show on Sunday afternoon, it was hard not to read something into Phoebe Philo’s design choices. She even admitted afterwards that she purposefully wanted to create a twisted look to her lineup and that …

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Balenciaga’s New Direction
 

Demna Gvasalia means business with his first collection as the creative director of Balenciaga. There was the invitation to the show — a classic, but still chic, business card. Then the venue — a square box …

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Guillaume Henry Heats Up Nina Ricci
 

It looks as if Guillaume Henry has honed in on precisely which sort of French woman he want the Nina Ricci brand to embody. She is the one with the long and lean figure who survives on sarcasm and …

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Givenchy Walks like an Egyptian
 

There was a lot of speculation about the set of the latest Givenchy show. Some guests saw the zigzagging blond wood walls and immediately thought of a labyrinth. Others suggested a mouse maze. One even went a bit dark and …

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Junya Watanabe’s Geometry Lessons
 

Early Saturday morning the fashion world was sent back to school. Junya Watanabe gave them a MIT level class in advanced geometry with a sculptural collection that focused entirely on the power of dimensionality and…

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Valli’s Black and White View
 

Giambattista Valli is the kind of designer who makes frothy floral dresses, fitfor women who have highly feminine notions when it comes to their wardrobe. His clothing is never dark or disturbing. It doesn’t try to ask sociopolitical …

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Étreindre le now
 

Lorsque nous avons décidé d’intituler le onzième numéro du magazine Antidote « Now Generation », l’objectif était de se concentrer réellement sur les créateurs, les questions sociales et les phénomènes …

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Mugler’s Savannah Style
 

“Basically when I started working on this collection, I was in Paris and it was quite cold. So I was thinking about holidays and that got me thinking about a savannah sunset and all its warm colors,” said David Koma in …

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Saab’s Walk on the Dark Side
 

The first inkling of the sartorial shift at the Elie Saab show could be found in the thank you notes placed with the show notes. At the top of the list was the news that the live musical performance at…

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Acne raves beyond the sea
 

Unless you’re a massive music buff, you’d be forgiven for not knowing The Cramps, the ‘80s Californian punk band who last played a decade ago and who counts Acne Studios creative director…

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Mouret’s Matte and Shine
 

Roland Mouret is a designer of two cities. One is London, where he lives and works and the other is Paris, where he shows his figure-hugging feminine collection each season. This dichotomy was plainto see in his most recent collection…

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Ackermann’s Army
 

The siren’s voice beaconed to them, calling the models by name, as they appeared on the catwalk, each of them an honored member of Haider Ackermann’s new velvet army, one ready to …

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The thin dark line of Yohji Yamamoto
 

Artist Yuuka Asakura, who has been live-painting at the Yohji Yamamoto store on rue Cambon store over the past few days and whose contribution will be celebrated by a party …

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Ungaro’s Contrasting Ideas
 

The Emanuel Ungaro show got off to a late start on Friday night. But that’s what happens when a pop star wants to make a diva entrance. As singer Kelly Rowland arrived, a …

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Manish Arora’s Wild West
 

Manish Arora’s shows are always a feast for the eyes and a fun fashion moment. But this season he took things to the next level and created a real fashion happening with a smattering of …

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