As Haute Couture Week draws to a close and Menswear begins its digitised alternative, it comes as no surprise that brands have been battling to find ways to stand out from their competitors in the most ingenious ways on various video streaming platforms.   One of these is Amazon's Twitch, a video-streaming platform that started with gamers and now...

For the first day of Paris Fashion Week Online, British luxury brand JW Anderson decided to premiere an exclusive short video in black and white. “The idea is that you can tell and experience the story in your own way. At your own pace. It’s about going back to making and telling stories,” explained the designer. With this idea of exploration and storytelling in mind, photographer Lewis Ronald...

After just two years of launching his eponymous brand, French-Cambodian designer Boramy Viguier launches his SS21 collection today with a 3D Digital Lookbook Video during the Paris Fashion Week® Online on the Federation platform.   The Paris-based creative has rapidly established himself in the industry with his modern take on utilitarian...

Kicking off the Digital Couture Week today was Maison Margiela with the first instalment of the brand’s Artisanal Co-ed Collection for Autumn Winter 2020. Showcased as moving imagery over four ascending stages, the collection will conclude in a final revelation on 16 July 2020. Much like Margiela, Lebanese fashion designer Elie Saab opted for...

French Designer Jean Paul Gaultier is known for his theatrics and his innovative and exciting ways of surprising his fans. And after showing for the last time last January, with a thrilling, unexpected move the House of Gaultier has announced a new chapter in its history. The House has announced that each season a new designer will be invited to interpret the codes of the House. The first...

From Sophisticated to Eccentric: Meet Chanel’s Punk Princesses Today, Chanel kicked off the second day of Haute Couture Week by unveiling its Fall/Winter 2020-2021 collection. Captured by Mikael Jansson, the collection is marked by a desire for shimmering opulence and sophistication. “I was thinking about a punk princess coming out of ‘Le Palace’ at...

Debuting her first-ever collection in Moscow less than ten years ago, Russian designer Ulyana Sergeenko has been receiving a lot of media attention due to her meticulous handcraft representing her native heritage.  Taking inspiration from antique markets and vintage boutiques, her previous ready-to-wear collections feature eclectic clothes, bags,...

For the past four months, the global pandemic we’ve been living in has been disrupting our daily lives, forcing industries to re-invent their plans for the year. Amongst them, the Fédération de la Haute Couture et de la Mode decided to schedule its usual Haute Couture Week digitally, on an exclusive online platform.   Nostalgic surrealism meets...

Italian luxury brand Moncler rolled out today a new collection designed in collaboration with globally influential streetwear designer and Japanese hip hop DJ Hiroshi Fujiwara."I wanted to create a new standard, delivering the message that Moncler loves the mountain, which is where the story started," said Fujiwara about the 7 Moncler Fragment Hiroshi Fujiwara collection. This message is...

Global luxury group Kering has announced a dedicated biodiversity strategy with a series of new targets in order to achieve a 'net positive' impact on biodiversity by 2025.Aligned with its long-term commitment to sustainability, the group’s new biodiversity strategy outlines steps to not only minimize biodiversity loss across its global supply chains but also to support nature and create net...

Family affairs are known to be a tradition amongst Italian fashion brands. The Missoni's, the Fendi's, the Ferragamo's and the Castiglioni's, are just a few of the renown names that come to mind when thinking of the fashion empires that keep it in the family. One of these is Aliita, the jewellery brand established by Venezuelan-born and Milan-based designer Cynthia Vilchez Castiglioni with the...

Loewe has released its limited-edition Divine collection, honouring drag queen and actor Divine. “[Divine] was absolutely out of the ordinary. He lived an intense life as a man, performer, character and as a body. For me, it is the embodiment of the principle of self-determination,” explained Jonathan Anderson, creative director of the house.The collection consists primarily of three t-shirts...

H&M has announced a collaboration with Stockholm-based eyewear brand CHIMI for a summer menswear collection. The CHIMI x H&M collection, which became exclusively available on the H&M website earlier this month, marks CHIMI’s first venture into menswear, after gaining success among the Insta-generation for their “inclusive, fun, progressive” sunglasses designs, in the words of Creative Director...

The new three-week long fundraising project denounces white queer racism and black queer antagonism through photography, literature and film.  Jamaican-born creative Jordan Anderson has long felt concern for the worryingly stagnant direction of the fashion and arts industries and the lack of black LGBTQ+ representation within them, hence deciding to take matters into his own hands. “My Queer...

If there is one thing 2020 has taught us so far is that the show must go on. Even within the fashion industry, months of lockdown and uncertainty haven’t stopped designers and creatives alike to share their work and talent with the world. That's exactly why, on a sunny June afternoon, Glenn Martens gave me a personal preview of his latest SS21 collection...