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Fashion Week

Rodarte's Flight of the Bumble Bee

The Mulleavy sisters took inspiration from the bees in their Pasadena backyard, resulting in swathes of honeycomb tulle, drifts of pollen-shaped embroideries and a honey-toned colour palette.


Fashion Week

At Tory Burch, A Vision of a Kinder, Gentler America

In Burch’s vision, good taste is a great leveller. It won’t ever sizzle, it won’t ever shock, but it also won’t ever let you down. 


News & Analysis

Rethinking Luxury CEO Pay

CEO remuneration policies within the luxury goods sector are out of sync with today’s low-growth world, argues Luca Solca.


Fashion Week

Phillip Lim's Victorian Nashville

The designer showed clothes full of romanticism undercut by more sinister Western-inspired details, which worked best when Lim let go of his more uptight, tailoring.


Fashion Week

Thom Browne: All Power to Hector

The show that Thom Browne staged on Monday night may have been one of the most extraordinary from a designer who has made a career of plumbing the heights — and depths — of fashion spectacle.


Fashion Week

Anarchy in the New Energy at Proenza

A lot of the elements that define Proenza Schouler had been amped up. Colour, technology, craft: they were all given a push.


Retail

Tommy Hilfiger Hasn't Been Cool in Years. Is a Supermodel the Fix?

The extravaganza of Tommy x Gigi was part of a hype train meant to woo younger shoppers and imbue the Hilfiger name with the coolness it once enjoyed.


Fashion Week

Dion Lee's Athletic Ease

The designer put thankful pause to the figure-hugging, slashed satin gowns that had crept into his cerebral oeuvre of late.


Fashion Week

OC's Politics and Pageantry

Carol Lim and Humberto Leon used their time slot at New York Fashion Week to talk about more than just clothes.


Fashion Week

A Mixed Bag at Prabal

Bias cuts and spaghetti straps played to Gurung’s strengths, however, the pleated, floor-trailing wizard sleeves did no favours to an otherwise pretty collection


Fashion Week

At Altuzarra, The Excitement of Bad Taste

It’s Joseph Altuzarra’s art to balance the bad girl and the belle, the sexy pencil skirt and the gingham shirt dress. And he just gets better at it.   


Fashion Week

No Compromises at Victoria Beckham

When Beckham made a big investment in crushed velvet for Spring, she knew she was taking a risk. Will it pay off?