Runway
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Louis Vuitton Lands in Kyoto with Plenty of Inspiration
Now that the traditional runway show has become so accessible and resort collections so lucrative, the truly covetable tickets are those that give access to the far-flung resort shows of the industry’s top-tier houses. Just when you thought no one would top Dior’s runway on a remote mountaintop outside of Los Angeles in Calabasas complete with
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Dior’s Spectacular Tribute to The West
Go West young woman! Maria Grazia Chiuri headed to Upper Las Virgenes Canyon Open Space Preserve in Calabasas, California, to stage a spectacular tribute to the West. The remote mountaintop location played host to 800 guests, who were seated in tents surrounded by fire pits and air balloons. According to VogueRunway, the location was picked before
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Louis Vuitton Closes Paris Fashion Week at the Louvre
Louis Vuitton invited guests to the Cour Marly in the Richelieu wing of the Louvre this season for the first-ever fashion show to be presented in the heart of the world-famous museum. The idea was to highlight the melting pot of cultures that pass through its halls daily and to embrace globalism at a time
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Adieu, Paris! The Best of the Runways: Days 6 and 7
John Galliano Bill Gaytten has been quietly proving he’s a master in his own right despite the enormous task of taking over a brand whose name still belongs to its founder, who happens to be a living legend (sometimes for better, sometimes for worse). The highlights of this collection were the dresses: a stunning lilac
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Blast Off! Chanel’s Out of this World Fall/Winter 2017 Collection
Just when you think Karl Lagerfeld can’t top himself, he goes and builds a full-blown space shuttle in the Palais Royal. The piece wasn’t purely decorative—it actually had engines that fired and lifted partially off the ground. Incroyable! Karl knows the future: the fashion show as the ever-growing stage spectacle. It was the moment of Paris
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Alexander McQueen Fall/Winter 2017
Sarah Burton is a sort of fashion wizard, whipping up the dreamiest modern-day collections rooted in a wealth of history. This season she took the team to Cornwall, England to study the landscape and mine the visual riches for inspiration. Clootie trees were the jumping off point. As part of Celtic tradition, these trees adorned
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Paris Fashion Week: Weekend Roundup
Art and commerce flourished in Paris with new statements in color, form, function, and performance. Below is the best of the Paris runways from le week-end! Loewe Sliced bread adorned the hat brims at Loewe, presumably so we don’t all end up as burnt toast come…Fall? Whatever the meaning, the best thing since sliced bread on
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Valentino Fall/Winter 2017
Holy hues! Pierpaolo Piccioli presented a divine collection filled with confectionary eye-popping colors inspired by the ’80s Italian design and architecture group founded by Ettore Sottsass. And while that movement’s distinct colors were a foundation, the designs were rooted in Victoriana. The historical-infused splendor of Piccioli’s collections at Valentino are so beautiful that they create an almost
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Balenciaga Fall/Winter 2017
Demna Gvasalia veered toward elegance this season at Balenciaga. The coats that buttoned in an asymmetrical fashion at the shoulder looked like chic capes. When worn undone, they gave the effect of draping at one side. The uptown ladies will prefer the astrakhan and leopard versions, while downtown’s loyal Gvasalia followers will be all over
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Maria Grazia Chiuri’s Blue Period: Christian Dior Fall/Winter 2017
“Among all colors, navy blue is the only one which can ever compete with black, it has all the same qualities,” Christian Dior once said. Maria Grazia Chiuri took that notion to heart this season, incorporating shades of blue into everything from her sheer sparkled bustier gowns to denim blue-collar worker’s wear, like a low-slung
