Yui Chen Wins Hyerès Festival’s Top Fashion Prize
The Chinese designer won the grand prize for her airy, sculptural pieces at the 41st edition of the festival, which is undergoing a revamp under new leadership.

While the collection will undoubtedly maintain the brand’s upward impetus in streetwear circles, it lacked the historical musings that have peppered Y/Project’s recent shows.

The relentless basic normalcy of the clothes, however much they were twisted, stood out in Virgil Abloh's business attire inspired collection.

The collection the designer showed today was one of his most accomplished, probably because his love of roughness triumphed over his love of decadence.

There was a dark and curious seam of medievalism in the collection, which asked big questions about mass migration, dignity and elegance.

This season, the schedule was slimmer than ever and the remaining mega-brands reasserted their respective codes for young customers supposedly starving for history. But playing with nostalgia is a dangerous game.

Rocco Iannone did not opt for a radical makeover, but instead rediscovered one of the pillars of the house — colour — and worked around it with remarkable subtlety.

Armani strikes so many fashion cognoscenti as someone who exists outside time, a designer to be given his drily respectful due rather than praise, but there was plenty to enjoy in this collection.

Silvia Venturini Fendi has always delighted in toying with preconception, and her restlessness means she’ll never buckle under the weight of legacy.

Alessandro Dell'Acqua's twisted classics — suited for the urban jungle — may not be groundbreaking, but are nonetheless consistently fresh and smart.

Miuccia Prada turned her latest outing into a comprehensive and riveting education in the history of her house, juxtaposing graphics from previous collections and making mutant combinations.

The Caten twins' Americana-themed collection will sell, that's for sure, but the time is ripe to give this label a refresh.

Massimo Giorgetti has a wonderful sensibility for the zeitgeist, but he sometimes lacks the guts to follow his own route and reverts to popular fashion references.
The Chinese designer won the grand prize for her airy, sculptural pieces at the 41st edition of the festival, which is undergoing a revamp under new leadership.
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