Savage x Pride Rihanna, who knows her way around a bold fashion statement, has unveiled her second Pride collection for her lingerie brand Savage x Fenty. As expected, the 2022 version bursts with multicolor rainbow prints, bras and bodysuits with strategically placed cutouts, heaps of rhinestones, lace, and fishnet. Plus the occasional le smoking (that’s a…
A physical runway show, in an indoor environment, is a rare thing these days, especially from a non-native designer. Yohji Yamamoto has been a fixture in Paris Fashion Week since the late seventies; his love for Paris and showing his collections here was immortalized by Wim Wenders in his 1989 documentary Notebook on Cities and Clothes.…
At 98 years old, Pierre Cardin is still leading from the gut. Decades ago he was booted from France’s Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture for selling ready-to-wear (which he pioneered); had an affair with actress Jeanne Moreau (without breaking up with his longtime live-in male partner); and held Cold War-era fashion-show extravaganzas in Communist…
A Comme des Garçons show is always unexpected, but this time it was more unexpected than expected. Rei Kawakubo has just finished her exploration of the world of Orlando for the Vienna Opera, thus completing several seasons devoted to costume on the runway. This conclusion was echoed with the first exit walking to the sounds…
A tower of neon strip lights was erected at the models’ exit, giving the runway an almost gallery-like glow, which was fitting as it seemed like Yohji Yamamoto had been feeling crafty. The invitation was wrapped in black hand-felted wool, and came in a crisp cotton envelope, more than a hint of what to expect.…
“Last night I had another dream about you / How many fucking dreams must I have about you?” a breathy Sofia Bolt (aka Amelie Rousseaux) demanded defiantly over and over on the soundtrack. A Paris-born, L.A.-based musician who merges classic French pop with West Coast psych, she couldn’t have been a more fitting persona for…
“It doesn’t matter / What you create / If you have no fun.” The opening lines of the soundtrack ‘Party Girl’ by Michelle Guverich couldn’t have better described the girl on the runway tonight. And, perhaps, Dries Van Noten himself, who seems to be in particularly high spirits these days. Who could blame him, with the remarkable collections he keeps…
To the sounds of techno god Jeff Mills’ recent release Aquarius, Comme des Garçons opened abruptly as several boys hit the runway at the same time, meandering into the space continuously in movement…
Dries Van Noten held his men’s show in the same brutalist space that hosted his stellar collaborative collection with Christian Lacroix last season, behind the Opera Bastille…
