Guo Pei, SS20, Haute Couture, Paris. There are times where we want fashion to be a slightly elevated version of...
22 Jan 2020
Iris van Herpen, SS20, Haute Couture, Paris. There is a certain romanticised view of what haute couture entails - hard-working...
10 Oct 2019
Bias Binding at Valentino, Haute Couture, AW19, Paris. One dress that almost stood apart, thematically speaking, from the rest of...
01 Oct 2019
Valentino, Haute Couture, AW19, Paris. While it was a first look of sunflower yellow that set the scene, it was...
12 Sep 2019
Nina Ricci, SS20. You can see it in the Botter lookbooks, but it is especially evident in the photographs of...
01 Sep 2019
Image of the Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams Exhibition. Image courtesy of the V&A © Adrien Dirand 2019. For those lucky...
21 Aug 2015
Christian Dior, AW15, Haute Couture, Paris. The Autumn-Winter 2015 collection at Christian Dior was filled with bold, immediate design elements...
22 Apr 2015
Christian Dior, SS15, Haute Couture, Paris. In discussing some of the details from the Balenciaga Pre-Fall 2015 collection», we began...
10 Feb 2015
Christian Dior, Haute Couture, SS15, Paris. From a construction point of view, there are a number of beautiful and clever...
20 Aug 2014
Chanel, Haute Couture, AW14, Paris. There were a couple of interesting techniques that were used in the Chanel couture collection...
