Runway Reviews

Harvey Nichols – Dubai unveils ‘The New You’ campaign

Harvey Nichols – Dubai unveils ‘The New You’ campaign

01 Feb 2024

As we step into a year jam-packed with excitement and possibilities, Harvey Nichols – Dubai unveils ‘The New You’ campaign – a celebration of fresh beginnings, bold choices, and brave styles. 

Curated to empower your New Year's resolutions, the Spring Summer 2024 collection brings together a wide lineup of the most coveted womenswear, menswear and kids wear labels along with an extensive selection of standout accessories and essential beauty items making every fashion choice a... Read More

Max Mara Resort 2024 takes a fresh look at florals

Max Mara Resort 2024 takes a fresh look at florals

31 Jan 2024

When the weather map turns from yellow to orange to deep, deep red, smart travellers look north for the cool spots. Max Mara feels right at home in Scandinavia, thanks to its hip metropolises and the accessibility of Nordic design. But epic natural landscapes and a folklore redolent of mystery and magic offer Max Mara a new dimension. Scandinavia’s progressive character goes back a long way. History remembers Vikings for ruthless plundering, but who knew they also sewed the seeds of Nordic... Read More

Valentino Haute Couture Fall/Winter 2023-24

Valentino Haute Couture Fall/Winter 2023-24

15 Aug 2023

For the Valentino Haute Couture Fall/Winter 2023-24 Valentino show, a Château is, to Creative Director Pierpaolo Piccioli, a metaphysical entity, a context that can itself be recontextualized. Witness to a past time, a space bears traces of the lives lived within it – formerly emblematic of notions of elitism and status, a Château can today reject its history, to be recalibrated. Nameless and universal, a Château can exist as an everyplace for everyone, can become a forum for a new... Read More

Elie Saab Haute Couture: Symbols of abundance

Elie Saab Haute Couture: Symbols of abundance

01 Aug 2023

The Elie Saab Haute Couture Spring/Summer 23 moves in such currents of richness and symbols of abundance. Each majestic piece is intricate and ornate, carefully created with impressions from the natural scenes and rituals of the revered kingdom of Thailand, where rich cultures of gilded splendor inspire the imagination and artistry of Elie Saab. To inaugurate the captivating celebration, she begins her perpetual rise alongside her partner, and together, in splendid harmony, they emit... Read More

Chanel’s Spring-Summer 2023 Haute Couture collection

Chanel’s Spring-Summer 2023 Haute Couture collection

22 Mar 2023

For Chanel’s Spring-Summer 2023 Haute Couture collection, Virginie Viyard and Xavier Veilhan headed to Gabrielle Chanel’s apartment at 31, Rue Cambon and found inspiration in the collection of objects, sculptures, drawings representing lions, does, stags, birds and camels displayed at this emblematic address. Reinterpreting the apartment’s bestiary in an exquisite way fit for a Couture collection, this world of animals came to life through embroideries on short tweed suits and coat dresses,... Read More

Schiaparelli Haute Couture Spring-Summer 2023

Schiaparelli Haute Couture Spring-Summer 2023

13 Feb 2023

In 1308, the poet Dante Alighieri began what would be his masterwork, The Divine Comedy, a 14,233-line poem divided into three books: Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso.

We all know this work, by name if not by heart. And yet when I revisited it recently, I was struck by something I’d missed when I first encountered it—not the horror of hell that Dante conjures so vividly, nor the sense of despair that overcomes you as you descend further and further into the realm—but by how the story... Read More

The tree of life in Dior's Haute Couture FW22

The tree of life in Dior's Haute Couture FW22

12 Dec 2022

The tree of life is the starting point for the Dior Haute Couture Fall-Winter 2022-2023 collection, imagined by Maria Grazia Chiuri, Artistic Director of the Maison. This Dior collection is composed of a series of pieces through which folkloric imaginations resonate.

A vision that freely invests several models thanks to the profusion of embroidery, made of cotton threads, silk and rope. The shades of beige are sometimes punctuated by a touch of black or blue. These embroideries are... Read More

Michael Kors Fall 2022: A lot of statement outerwear

Michael Kors Fall 2022: A lot of statement outerwear

06 Oct 2022

Kors leaned into what he does best, classic tailoring for dressing up during day, draped and asymmetrically cut jersey sequin gowns, dynamic knits, and lots and lots of statement outerwear.

“When I think about New York, it’s the stride, it’s always the stride,” said Michael Kors, previewing his fall collection about stepping out and turning heads.

Kors shifted his show to the evening hours this season, and enlisted Miguel to warm up the crowd. He got toes tapping, including... Read More

Valentino: Anatomy of Couture

Valentino: Anatomy of Couture

27 May 2022

The body, that of women in particular, is both a matter of fact and a cultural construct, of which beauty canons change over time, imposing now tense verticality, now soft horizontality, celebrating certain parts of the anatomy over others. In the system of Haute Couture this drive to idealization materializes in the body of the house model, on which everything is designed and built, becoming real while remaining an abstraction.

Driven by the urgency of rethinking the rituals and... Read More

 Dior Haute Couture Spring/Summer 2022

Dior Haute Couture Spring/Summer 2022

15 Apr 2022

By definition, haute couture is handmade, from start to finish. The labor-intensive process is hidden in the details, and to the untrained eye, all there is to see is exquisite runway plastered with detailed embroidery, fancy embellishments, and expertise in textile manipulation. But what we rarely think about is the time that goes into it. These made-to-measure designer items are akin to art, and many belong in a museum. For Dior’s spring-summer 2022 haute couture collection, sometimes it... Read More

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