Fur! It’s a wonder there are any beasties left in the trees after 4 consecutive fashion weeks saw more fluff, scale, and skin rolled out than we’ve seen in the last two decades. Activists screamed for Gaultier’s hide, and he wasn’t even the biggest offender. Viktor & Rolf, Chapurin, Valli and Rick Owens’ show notes [...] [...]
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Paris this season has been particularly tribal, with clan identities breaking out in very different directions: midcentury revivalism chez Dries, Rochas, and Giles, a healthy dose of Belgian Gothic chain-rattling at Demeulemeester and Ackermann, the neo-minimalists at Céline and Givenchy, whole zoos’ worth of fur creeping around at Chapurin, Chanel, Gaultier, etc. And then there’s Chloé’s [...] [...] Sixteen looks from the late Alexander McQueen’s final collection were presented yesterday afternoon, not on the catwalk, but in a private showing in a lavish Paris drawing room. The mood was heavy as friends and admirers of McQueen – who committed suicide February 11th – were presented with the last examples of the designer’s genius [...] [...] |
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