Isabel Marant SPRING 2021 READY-TO-WEAR It wasn’t long ago that Isabel Marant didn’t want to put on a show this week. Impacted by the alarming atmosphere, like everyone else in Paris—where Fashion Week currently resembles …
Balmain SPRING 2021 READY-TO-WEAR Collection
Balmain SPRING 2021 READY-TO-WEAR Argh, I am sorry to call so late but the rehearsal ran over!” said Olivier Rousteing via his Apple iPhone in Paris and my Google Pixel in Venice. “But we still …
Christian Dior SPRING 2021 READY-TO-WEAR Collection
Christian Dior SPRING 2021 READY-TO-WEAR Coined in quarantine, concepts of #WFH, physicality, and comfortwear must have been a feast for the pragmatic eye of Maria Grazia Chiuri. High fashion’s foremost ergonomist, the Christian Dior designer was …
Valentino SPRING 2021 READY-TO-WEAR Collection
Valentino SPRING 2021 READY-TO-WEAR Milan Fashion Week closed with a bang today, with Pierpaolo Piccioli presenting his Valentino collection for the first time here in Milan. In a declaration of support for the Italian fashion …
Ports 1961 SPRING 2021 READY-TO-WEAR Collection
Ports 1961 SPRING 2021 READY-TO-WEAR The hypebae–meets–vestal virgin sandals of twisted grosgrain, the Romanesque pteruges dresses of fabric strips, and the drapily layered off-the-shoulder goddess dresses near the end all suggested antiquity as an inspiration. …
Versace SPRING 2021 READY-TO-WEAR Collection
Versace SPRING 2021 READY-TO-WEAR I spoke to Donatella Versace days after she had emerged from the quarantine she spent alone in Milan, kept company only by her dog. She’d just had her roots dyed (“I’d …
No. 21 SPRING 2021 MENSWEAR Collection
No. 21 SPRING 2021 MENSWEAR In a not-so-socially distanced backstage, a masked Alessandro Dell’Acqua was feigning calm, but his emotion was palpable. Staging one of the few physical shows on Milan’s schedule was proving exciting, …
Etro SPRING 2021 READY-TO-WEAR Collection
Etro SPRING 2021 READY-TO-WEAR Faced by a rainstorm, Etro brainstormed and relocated its show from the gardens of the Four Seasons to a garage space, quite Parisian, just down the road from its headquarters on …
Alberta Ferretti SPRING 2021 READY-TO-WEAR Collection
Alberta Ferretti SPRING 2021 READY-TO-WEAR Alberta Ferretti’s show was staged in the open air in one of the courtyards of Milan’s Castello Sforzesco, with guests enjoying at safe distance a warm, sunny, last-official-day-of-summer afternoon. The …
Fendi SPRING 2021 READY-TO-WEAR Collection
Fendi SPRING 2021 READY-TO-WEAR This first real, live—and alive—show of Milan’s reawakening Fashion Week opened with prints of photographs taken during lockdown by Silvia Venturini Fendi from her bedroom window. It closed with Leon Dame …
David Koma SPRING 2021 READY-TO-WEAR Collection
David Koma SPRING 2021 READY-TO-WEAR Had David Koma not followed his heart to a career in fashion, he would have possibly been a tennis player. His love of the sport is obvious when you consider …
Tom Ford SPRING 2021 MENSWEAR Collection
Tom Ford SPRING 2021 MENSWEAR Six months ago, Tom Ford put on one hell of a fashion show. In Los Angeles on the eve of the Oscars, it was as starry as these things come. …
Erdem SPRING 2021 READY-TO-WEAR Collection
Erdem SPRING 2021 READY-TO-WEAR It reads like a mad experiment: Lock up Erdem Moralioglu in his London house for four months, deny him access to the museums and libraries that oxygenate his storyteller mind, and …