It's Time to Board the Carven Caravan in Paris: Autumn Winter 2012 Show Report
In its 21st Century incarnation the Parisian fashion label Carven - currently Alexa Chung’s “dream label” - is only three years old. But you’d never know it looking at the line-up of cool-girls and...
View ArticleBalmain: Paris Fashion Week Autumn Winter 2012 Show Report
The Balmain show in Paris this afternoon was a spectacle, bringing traffic to a standstill and causing a crowd go gather, and that was outside the venue! Inside the grand ballroom of Hotel...
View ArticleWho needs a new Creative Director? Christian Dior Autumn Winter 2012 Show Report
Outside Christian Dior's show venue this afternoon it was all aggression: the ever increasing mob of street style photographers jostled to get photos of arrivals in a not very friendly way; policemen...
View ArticleKaty Perry at Viktor & Rolf in Paris: Autumn Winter 2012 Show Report
It is the Saturday of Paris Fashion Week, and all of Paris's most eccentric and alternative designers are on show today. There was the Japanese conceptualist Junya Watanabe this morning, followed by...
View ArticleStella McCartney: Paris Fashion Week Autumn Winter 2012 Show Report
Athletics, Rococo, modern tailoring and riffs on ice skating outfits, not to mention a startling colour statement of cobalt blue and hot pink: that is what Stella McCartney is made of for Autumn Winter...
View ArticleKenzo & Karlie Kloss’ Escalator Spectacular: Paris Fashion Week Autumn Winter...
Yesterday evening a rather soggy (the rain has unfortunately also been attending pfw) heavy weight fash pack (and P. Diddy!) piled into a huge university building in Paris and almost instantly the...
View ArticleStefano Pilati's Swan Song: Yves Saint Laurent Autumn Winter 2012 Show Report
Could Stefano Pilati ever win? It has seemed, over the last 12 months that the mounting odds stacked against him made his departure a done deal regardless of what he did. And tonight, the designer who...
View ArticleChanel: Autumn Winter 2012 Show Report
With so many crystal stalagmites shooting up from the floor of the Grand Palais, anyone could have been forgiven for expecting a guest appearance from Superman and Lex Luthor at the Chanel show. We got...
View ArticleValentino: Autumn Winter 2012 Show Report
Given the agonies that a fashion house can go through as it transitions through the years after the departure of its founding designer, the success of Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pier Paolo Piccioli at the...
View ArticleAlexander McQueen: Autumn Winter 2012 Show Report
In two relatively short years, Sarah Burton has gone from being the right hand woman of one of Britain's most talented and controversial designers to being something of a national treasure. Her talent...
View ArticleBurberry Prorsum Autumn Winter 2013: Animal Love
Animal love was the story at Burberry Prorsum, London Fashion Week's biggest and most well-attended show. Leopard, zebra and giraffe prints were stamped onto sweaters, bags, wedgette heeled shoes and...
View ArticleFashion East Autumn Winter 2013: Claire Barrow, Ryan Lo And Ashley Williams
What a good old British riot the Fashion East show was this afternoon! With a front row as enthusiastic as the clothes – you couldn’t help but fall in love all over again with the eccentricity and...
View ArticleErdem Autumn Winter 2013: A Turn To The Dark Side
When we heard the opening notes of the symphonic score to Hitchcock's The Birds we realised we weren't in for a typical Erdem show. King of so-sweet-it-hurts ladylike chic, the Canadian designer is...
View ArticleGiles Autumn Winter 2013: Virgin Queens
"Blackadder!" said Giles Deacon of the inspiration behind his London Fashion Week show. Held at The Stationers Hall and featuring many a puffed Elizabethan sleeve and boxy tunic, this was an entirely...
View ArticleTom Ford Autumn Winter 2013: Super Sparkle
"Cross cultural, multi-ethnic, happy," said Tom Ford of his London Fashion Week collection, bestowing kisses on guests as they filed out. More than a few of them won't wash for a week. He was as...
View ArticleJ.W. Anderson Autumn Winter 2013: Austerity Measured
J.W. Anderson's most popular pieces can cause the biggest of scuffles on the shop floor, and he's keen to see the J.W. brand go globally mass market (hence why he never used his first name, Jonathan,...
View ArticleGrazigram At London Fashion Week: See The Latest Action From The Shows
London Fashion Week is here! It's been a busy weekend for Grazia Daily as we've been running around London to catch all the catwalk action. We've been draining our batteries instagraming every few...
View ArticleMeadham Kirchhoff Autumn Winter 2013: Monochrome And Melancholy Make Fashion...
Instagrams: @lulayyyyy backstage and @iD_magazine close-up on the 'Louis' heels Before today’s Meadham Kirchhoff show, the Grazia fashion team were chat-happy over what the boys’ extravagant set would...
View ArticleSimone Rocha Autumn/Winter ‘13: Respect Your Elders
Inspired by her grandmothers: Irish granny Margaret Gleeson, and Chinese grandmother Cecelia Rocha, Simone’s Rocha’s fourth collection showing at London Fashion Week was described by the young...
View ArticleGucci Autumn Winter 2013: Dangerous Femininity
If strong women dominated the London shows then Gucci's Frida Giannini, the first big name of the Milan season, took that theme and ran - or in fact sprinted - with it. The heavily pregnant designer -...
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