The former designer for Dior will lead the Roman house, where she previously worked in the 1990s.
On Wednesday, Balenciaga will launch its first contemporary fine fragrance collection.
Designer Phillip Lim is stepping down as creative director of 3.1 Phillip Lim, the New York-based contemporary brand he co-founded in 2005 alongside chief executive Wen Zhou, who will take sole control of the brand.
Michelle Rhee will be the head of design for 3.1 Phillip Lim, the brand confirmed on Tuesday.
Intimacy and illusion add different levels of tantalisation as fashion tries its best to engage the senses, writes Tim Blanks.
From Mugler to The Row, corsetry and its abstractions were front and centre on the fourth day of Paris Fashion Week, writes Angelo Flaccavento.
Anthony Vaccarello guarantees that what you see is not the whole truth, writes Tim Blanks.
The sportswear giant has toned down communications around its sustainability efforts, replacing its glossy annual impact report with hard-to-find data sheets. Meanwhile, Rolex is cosying up to Trump and the EU’s push to clean up fashion waste is getting real.
Simone Bellotti beautifully captures the essence of fashion’s ultimate purist, writes Tim Blanks.
Kering said on Wednesday that it will not fully buy Italian fashion brand Valentino until at least 2028, its first major move under new CEO Luca de Meo, pushing back the execution of an expensive deal that has been weighing on the heavily indebted group.
Armani leaves a legacy of radical lightness, an all-encompassing vision for Italian elegance. Remaining independent will require his successors to restore that iconoclastic, globally minded approach at every level of the company.
Chanel couture is in its 110th year. Giorgio Armani turns 91 on Friday. Weighty numbers which might seem like a bulwark against the sense of pell-mell change that is sweeping fashion at the moment, except, of course, Chanel welcomes a new designer in September (only the fourth in eleven decades). And, for the first time in the 20 years he has been showing his couture presentation in Paris, Armani didn’t make it to his new one, on the advice of his doctors in Milan.
NEW YORK - It was perhaps a powerful gripping nostalgia that got every serious editor out on a sultry summer evening to see Marc Jacobs present his latest collection, a bi-annual off-calendar event that always seems to take place outside space and time.
PARIS - Daniel Roseberry insists that he has swerved the Schiaparelli archives, until now. “I just wasn’t interested,” he confessed on Monday morning, after his latest couture show for the house.
A look book and a movie were all it took to propel Gucci back into the fashion conversation. But Demna already has his sights set on a February show inflected with ‘a new minimalism,’ the designer told Tim Blanks in an in-depth interview.
PARIS - Eighteen months ago, John Galliano showed his last Artisanal collection for Maison Margiela.
In celebration of what would’ve been Vivienne Westwood’s 84th birthday on April 8, we’re looking back at the red carpet legacy of a designer who rewrote the rules of fashion. Known for her punk-infused aesthetics and masterful corsetry, Westwood’s designs have long been a favourite on the red carpet.
