Published October 5, 2025 Amid downpours and traffic snarls, Paris Fashion Week enjoyed a quartet of hyper distinctive shows on Saturday from an epic Alaïa, disquieting Maison Margiela, uber equestrian Hermès, and boudoir-driven Vivienne Westwood. Alaïa: Epic staging, energetic collection Now that’s what we call smart synergy. Creative director Pieter Mulier took his latest show…
Published October 4, 2025 Pharrell Williams will be honored with the 2025 André Leon Talley Lifetime Achievement Award by the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD). Pharrell Williams named 2025 André Leon Talley Lifetime Achievement Award winner. – Pharrell Williams The award recognizes Williams’ groundbreaking contributions to fashion and his influence across music, film,…
Translated by Nazia BIBI KEENOO Published October 5, 2025 For 141 years, Hanro has been dedicated to crafting high-quality lingerie, nightwear and loungewear. Founded in 1884 in the Swiss town of Liestal, in the canton of Basel-Landschaft (Basel-Land), by Albert Handschin and Carl Ronus — whose surnames gave the brand its name — the company…
Published October 4, 2025 Timberland and Telfar have teamed up to launch a capsule collection that reimagines the classic Yellow Boot while expanding into bags. Timberland and Telfar launch capsule collection. – Timberland x Telfar At the center of the collection is the Timberland x Telfar Tall Pull-On Boot, a 26-inch unstructured style in pebbled…
Published October 5, 2025 After her performative happening at Palacete Gomes Freire last Thursday, October 2, as part of Lisbon Fashion Week, Ana Margarida Feijão is preparing to present her collection titled “Liberdade é Nome de Mulher” (Freedom is a Woman‘s Name) next Thursday, October 9, in an exhibition of “wearable sculptures that fuse fashion,…
Published October 5, 2025 Japan’s leading fashion houses once again made a major splash at Paris Fashion Week on Saturday, as evidenced on the sixth day of the women’s ready-to-wear shows for spring-summer 2026 by three of the country’s most emblematic labels: Junya Watanabe, Noir by designer Kei Ninomiya, and Comme des Garçons. On the…
Published October 5, 2025 Saturday night in Paris witnessed the debut of Pierpaolo Piccioli at one of fashion’s most mythical marques, Balenciaga. With Meghan Markle and Lauren Sanchez applauding front row, this was surely the most sophisticated new designer inauguration so far. See fashion showBalenciaga – Spring-Summer2026 – Womenswear – France – Paris – ©Launchmetrics/spotlight…
Published October 5, 2025 Paris Fashion Week entered its fifth day with an especially intense programme. In particular, the womenswear ready-to-wear shows for Spring/Summer 2026 revealed designers’ pursuit of freshness and lightness. Leonard Paris and Giambattista Valli were prime examples. Vetements, for its part, opted for provocation. See fashion showLeonard Paris, Spring-Summer 2026 – ©Launchmetrics/spotlight…
Published October 3, 2025 In a day that descended into dirty teeming rainy, Paris was treated to four memorable collection by five non-French designers: American Lazaro Hernandez and Jack McCollough’s debut at Loewe, Harris Reed at Nina Ricci, Sarah Burton at Givenchy and Victoria Beckham. Loewe: The American friends debut with brio Another day, another…
Published October 3, 2025 Lagerfeld: Very La Vigie A Mediterranean mood at the house of Lagerfeld, where the leitmotif was La Vigie, the beautiful villa/palace in which Karl resided on the frontier of Monaco and France. La Vigie’s elegantly easy mood wafted through the collection. The Monaco print appeared in a series of elegiac seaside…
