Officially joining the couture club for his Spring 2013 collection, Alexis Mabille turns his attentions to craftsmanship. 

Written by Guest Blogger Josh Walker It’s a beautiful blending of fashion and architecture that sets the tone of Haizhen Wang’s SS13 collection.

For the S/S 2013 collection, Moncler Gamme Rouge creative director Giambattista Valli embarked us upon a seaside vacation in Positano, Italy.  The clothing, a mix of conceptual water wear, came in white, as well as in photo prints of water and synchronized swimmers.  As befitting for a Valli vacation collection, the hems were short, the [...]

Pedro Lourenço showed strong shapes mixed with a soft, feminine palette of pink, blush nudes and red for his S/S 2013 collection.  Like the 22 year old designer himself, the collection was very youthful, a continuation of the Lourenço’s military-inspired resort collection.  First up were the jackets: bomber, leather or silk, with detachable sleeves; then [...]

Written by Guest Blogger Madeline Rudin The oversized blazer is back, and it made its big entrance at the Ann Demeuelemeester S/S 2013 show in Paris. Romantic and dramatic, the collection was inspired by the duality of butterflies, according to Demeuelemeester–a vision she illustrated through the variety of fabrics and lengths in her designs.  From structured masculine jackets to [...]

French designer Bouchra Jarrar has had an extensive history in fashion, first as Nicolas Ghesquière’s assistant, then working with Christian Lacroix before he folded his business. Jarrar is quite the couturier (although she designs Ready To Wear), her assiduous details of construction have given her a reputation of utmost respect in French fashion circles. She [...]

Written by Guest Blogger Madeline Rudin If Alice in Wonderland took place in a shopping mall, it may have looked something like the Louis Vuitton S/S 2013 Paris Fashion Week show.  LV set the bar high with last year’s demonstration and had no intention of lowering it this year as models took to the runway two [...]

If the woman of Alexander McQueen were a literature heroine, she’d be the muse of Kafka. And the “Metamorphosis” wouldn’t be about a man-turned-cockroach, but about a woman that turned into Queen Bee. Yes, Sarah Burton continued once again the legacy of the house’s conceptual-to-the-bone collections. The first looks down the runway proved it right: [...]

A Chanel catwalk is never far from being a full-on theater play, with its own props, backgrounds, scenes and actors. We all remember the iceberg from Fall/Winter 2010/11 and the boost in publicity it gave the brand, as well as setting a trend for the years to come. This season, Karl Lagerfeld decided to go [...]

Dries van Noten has always been a supporter of artisanship, using some kind of hand made embellishments in most of his collections, and S/S 2013 was no exception. Plaid dominated the canvas, albeit mixed with florals and various kinds of embroidery, it was all about different variations of plaid, on slouchy, comfortable, roomy separates; probably [...]