Before his show today, designer Adam Lippes confessed that he found the recent movie The City of Your Final Destination a bit of a snorer. Apparently, though, he stayed awake long enough to glean some quality inspiration, because he cited the film’s images of Charlotte Gainsbourg pottering around a remote estate in Uruguay as the [...]
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Mona Kowalska launched A Détacher out of her Nolita shop of the same name in 1998, and for about ten years the buzz on her brand was so quiet it could be mistaken for silence. But if you listened closely to the right people, like the stylists and editors who frequented her store, you could [...]
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It’s hard to conceive of a more thankless task in fashion than taking over from a designer as galvanizing as Alexander “Lee” McQueen, but Sarah Burton is precisely the kind of quiet powerhouse who has what it takes to grab hold of his legacy and drag it where it needs to go to survive and [...]
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Like some of his more established Milanese peers, Albino D’Amato found his muse in Yves Saint Laurent this season. The first model’s big, floppy straw hat was a giveaway, and the second look sealed it: a strapless onesie in spicy YSL colors, gathered in the front and with an airy, blouson shape in the back. [...]
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Jonny Johansson sent a mixed message with today’s show of Acne Studio’s womenswear. “Nothing retro, no references,” he said of the clothes, after a presentation that had taken place in Apartment 1A, Princess Margaret’s old digs at Kensington Palace, about as retro a location as the Establishment allows. Photographs of old-school glamour-puss Margaret by then-husband [...]
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