Agnona SS 2018
Ulyana Sergeenko SS 2014 Couture
Ulyana Sergeenko is a story teller; she tells through her couture collections. This time, it was a reimagining of a ride on the Orient Express. Sergeenko’s new heroine not only crossed borders (the former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan), but also, in a manner of speaking, cross-dressed, borrowing clothes […]
Bouchra Jarrar SS 2014 Couture
Bouchra Jarrar’s secured a place in couture’s history books, joining the ranks of pre-war women designers like Chanel, Vionnet, Grès, and Schiaparelli. It’s been more than thirty years since a woman was named a grande couturière. Jarrar used ivory feathers packed closely together in natural shades of brown and black or were […]
Zimmerman collection SS 2014
One glance and you know that dress or bikini is ZIMMERMANN. The label stays true to its original vision: sophisticated femininity, clever colour combinations and delicate original prints. Sisters Nicky and Simone Zimmermann founded their namesake label in 1991 in Sydney, Australia. Zimmermann presents the SS 2014 collection in blue and […]
Dolce & Gabbana SS 2014 RTW
Sicily has ruled many times. Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana, have been inspired about it, and brought to the world in their previuos collections. For their Spring Summer 2014 collection, they have pointed it again, this time bringing in Greek items; they used old photographs of ruined amphitheaters as prints, they […]
Naeem Khan SS RTW 2014
Naeem Khan, is one of the best designers out there, that makes an incredible collection for every new season. The Spring/ Summer is focused on latin inspiration: as a sweeping landscape that was home to Frida Kahlo, flamenco dancers, Mexican churches, and the Moors. The models were dresses dripped with […]
Nanette Lepore
Lepore’s SS 2014 collection has found a new freshness in softer, easy—almost deflated—silhouettes and worked with more natural materials that gave the clothes more movement. “It’s all about romanticism but done in a modern way,” she said. Her latest lineup presented plenty of everyday looks; This was the first time Nanette […]
Vionnet
Hussein Chalayan produced a demi-couture collection for Goga Ashkenazi’sVionnet, where he tried to move the fashion dial forward, and not just revisiting the archives. Chalayan chose industrial design as a starting point. Spiral staircases, furniture, electric wires—it was all laid out on a mood board at a preview. In the past, […]
Valentino
The Valentino designers Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli created fifty-five looks for fifty-five operas. The runway opened with a nod to La Traviata; Giuseppe Verdi’s score was embroidered in black on the long, full skirt of a parchment-colored tulle dress. After that, Chiuri explained, “we wanted to describe the character of each […]
Zuhar Muraid
The mystical garden segment of the Zuhar Muraid collection overall contained a multitude of camellias, roses, peonies, gentian, and more, all shimmering atop gowns, jumpsuits, and cocktail frocks. He added fauna to complement the flora: Black sequins delineated a zebra print, and feathers crept up the neck of a gauzy […]