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Mary's Magical Kingdom

Mary Katrantzou may be doomed to be dogged by her early success. But here, at least, there were clothes whose peculiar beauty stood on their own.


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Let's Reimagine 'Fashion Month'

With more and more designers showing beyond the traditional womenswear weeks and experimenting with new presentation formats, what does the future hold for 'fashion month'?


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Marching Roses at Simone Rocha

It’s not the first time Rocha has plumbed such depths of emotion. But her balance of dark and light has never been more acute.


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Vogue’s Race Problem Is Bigger Than Karlie Kloss

"Even if the model featured in the magazine’s latest controversial spread had been Asian, it would still have been offensive."


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Tim's Take | J.W. Anderson Autumn/Winter 2017

Tim Blanks talks to J.W. Anderson to decode the creative thinking behind his latest collection. Watch now.


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Gareth Pugh’s Macabre Cabaret

The show felt unsettling in a good way — bleak in its outlook and sharply in tune with how many of us feel about the near future, it struck a chord close to home.


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Versus’ New Generation

Donatella Versace injected the hard rock’n’roll edge of the Versus of old with a transfusion of high performance sportswear to create a successful contemporary hybrid.


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J.W. Anderson’s Style Odyssey

“Ease and coolness,” said Jonathan Anderson of his collection, “It’s more digestible. I wasn’t trying to provoke myself.”


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Guido Palau, an Eye in the Fashion Week Hurricane

Fashion's most sought-after hairdresser opens up to BoF about his creative process and staying calm amidst the storm of New York Fashion Week.


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At Marc Jacobs, Respect on the Streets

It was a genuine fashion moment, part celebration, part elegy. Marc Jacobs stands alone in New York in providing that depth of frisson.


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Alien or American at Thom Browne

Thom Browne dubbed his presentation a Gesamtkunstwerk, a total work of art, but there was an unexpected commerciality to his collection.


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Is Brand Consolidation Working?

Marc Jacobs, Burberry, Dolce & Gabbana and others have cleaned up their brand architecture, unifying multiple sub-labels under a single name — with uncertain results.