As creative director for Gucci, Alessandro Michele’s glittery, mismatched ensembles are fit for a nerdy, eccentric granny. We know what an accessory under his eye looks like: a jokey fanny pack, a velvet bow neck-tie, a monstrously high ’70s platform shoe. And now we can add decapitated heads and baby dragons to the…
Milan fashion week’s wrapping up, and over the weekend designers like Dolce & Gabbana and Marni advocated for a melange of colorful clothing for spring. But Jil Sander, as envisioned by new creative directors Lucie Meier and Luke Meier, decided on a statement about the absence of hue, showing Klimt-style shirt-dresses…
July 15 marked the 20th anniversary of Gianni Versace’s death, and the label’s Spring/Summer 2018 show was a moving homage to the late designer.
Miuccia Prada, at 68, is consistently the most on-point cultural barometer of any of the major designers, and her latest collection is no different. While other fashion houses have tried to embody the current moment of woman energy in the form of slogan tees and pussy hats, Prada got right to the spirit of it.
The “don’t look at me” hoodie is an important part of celebrity culture, but recently, while discussing the costume design of The Handmaid’s Tale, Jezebel history expert Kelly Faircloth posed an interesting question: why hasn’t the bonnet made a comeback?
Alessandro Michele grew up in the ’80s—the celebrated Gucci designer was born in 1972—so surely he remembers well the gaudiness people had to endure in the form of baubled sweaters and Max Headroom futurism. But this is a dude who never met a gaudy he didn’t like, so welcome to the Spring season of Gucci, which reads…
Most of the reports about Dolce & Gabbana’s Fall 2017 show have to do with the casting—that largely, in lieu of typical models, the designers had an assortment of people like Lady Kitty Spencer (niece of Princess Diana), Sofia Richie, and Austin Mahone walk the runway, not-total randos with large social followings who…
Let’s be honest—expectations are not that high when it comes to Emilio Pucci, or Milan Fashion Week in general. But I have to say I was still pretty shocked when this orange Cousin It marched down the runway, maybe because Pucci is an establishment brand that is clearly trying to appear innovative and failing…
Miuccia Prada always tells a story with her extravagant looks, and tonight in Milan the set gave away the plot: a runway organized into individual cubicles furnished by neatly made single beds and decorated with posters and collages, just like the shared rooms at some finely appointed boarding school.
Designer Alessandro Michele continues to do the same damn thing at Gucci, although it’s enjoyable enough. This season, Gucci’s first combined men’s and women’s show brought another overwhelmingly varied collection—dubbed “The Alchemist’s Garden” in show notes—made up of pleasantly clashing layers of vintage-inspired…
Here’s the footwear Donatella sent down the runway for Versace’s Spring 2017 collection in Milan today. I’m so, so tired, guys. It’s Friday. Take the weekend to think about it, no?
Fergie and Fat Joe opened and closed Philipp Plein’s Spring 2017 runway show in Milan, which I suppose is something like a cosign of his nu-Moschino-lite, washed-ass 2002 stereotype of what hip-hop fashion looks like. Titled “Alice in Ghettoland,” he staged models (including Paris Hilton) mean-mugging and draped in…
Gucci’s Spring/Summer 2017 runway presentation in Milan, as seen from an elaborate livestream, was over-the-top from the start. The crowd filtered into a huge mirrored room filled with smoke (get it?) and just barely lit with rose-colored light; the runway was one long, carpeted trademark Gucci stripe.
Miuccia Prada makes such cultish clothes due to her eye for detail and always-unique sensibilities, but it is also because her feminist instincts always seem to square with what super-smart women want to be wearing right now. That, and her lefty sense of humor, which manifested for Fall in corsets on almost every…
This morning, WWD ran a great piece about how Gucci creative director Alessandro Michele tapped GucciGhost—aka musician and professional snowboarder Trouble Andrew, husband of Santigold—to lend an authentic street feel to his latest collection. Andrew, who’s been masquerading as GucciGhost for several years now, lent…
The thesis of Versace’s Spring 2016 line, shown in Milan this week, was explicit before the lights even turned on. “This song is dedicated to women everywhere, regardless of color, religion, sexuality or what sex they were born with,” intoned a voice over the soundsystem. “Make it happen.”
Milan Fashion Week is kind of the disapproving grandmother of Fashion Month, a throwback realm in an otherwise obsessively future-oriented industry in which the Italian legacy brands flounce about in a puddle of elderly egos and beautiful tailoring.
Canadian design duo, identical twin brothers Dean and Dan Caten, aka DSquared2, showed their latest line at Milan Fashion Week on Monday. In what can only be described as a desperate plea for attention, instead of coming up with an original idea or concept, they decided to misappropriate Native designs and patterns,…
There's been a lot of soul-searching in recent years about what a fashion show even means in the internet era, and whether we even need them. This video from the ever reliable Elle España makes a compelling argument pro: there's something intangible about a designer's intent with her clothes that's missing when you…
For the past few seasons, noted tax evaders Dolce & Gabbana have been touring around Olde Europe for inspiration, sometimes to beautiful effect, sometimes to racist disaster. They've already Carmen Sandiego'd their way around Italia, Sicily, France, Greece and London, so this time around they took a little trip to…
