Walter Van Beirendonck's show title, Owls Whisper, was cryptic, to say the least, but his inspirations seemed pretty obvious.
The heat sure was all over Paris today, with sweaty editors fanning madly at the shows. But the kind of heat one can expect from such a hyped brand as Y/Project couldn't be felt at its spring 2018 show.
No doubt about it, young dads are hot. There's just something about the dad jeans, ill-fitting parkas, slightly nerdy demeanor, and the everyday-is-laundry-day incoordination.
They're intended to shock, and shock they do. Here, our WTF picks from the London men's shows...
If ever there were a time that begged for Vivienne Westwood's eco-political posturing, as nation after nation is confronted with existential crisis, this would be it.
In late May, the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) in the great state of Georgia staged its much-anticipated 2017 grad show in the open-air courtyard of the SCAD Museum of Art. True to form for an elite design university, the year-end thesis collections brimmed with both whimsy and concept, creative prowess and technical savoir faire. To a wildly enthusiastic crowd of beaming faculty, friends, and family, a total of 120 looks from 43 graduating seniors took the catwalk, capping off four years of scholastic achievement and offering a glimpse of fashion's future.
Louis Vuitton's resort 2018 collection, shown yesterday at Miho Museum near Kyoto, burst with historical Japanese references. As Vogue's Nicole Phelps pointed out, designer and Japanophile Nicolas Ghesquière has been traveling to the island country for two decades, enthralled by its "samurai armor, Kurosawa’s colors, Kabuki makeup, traditional prints of fishermen, and the obscure 1970s Japanese film series Stray Cat Rock."
At the request of her partner, designer Andreas Kronthaler, Vivienne Westwood happily modeled two looks in her own show, a punk-tinged nod to the avant-garde art scene of 1920s Vienna...
Sometimes the only way to appreciate a Comme des Garçons collection is through the lens of singularity. Typically, and particularly for fall 2017, it seems as if there is neither beginning nor end, neither time nor place. Attempts to discern meaning usually prove futile — although clearly a statement is being made.
