On Culture: Considering Alexander McQueen and Givenchy

1620. The Mayflower wighed anchor from Plymouth, England, near the Cornish border, to take the first pilgrim fathers to the New World. That was the first moment when the North European culture was meeting the North American one. During the centuries these two visions...

Into a cartoon

Fashion can talk about today’s issues in so many different ways. With seriousness and dark hues, with optimism and looking at the future, using words on the garments to shout out important messages. Colorful and stylised figures of animals and sexual organs is...

Chaos and Order: Milan Fashion Week

The line between order and chaos is both very thin and very strictly shaped. Sometimes it takes a puff to detroy the house of cards and a scrawl to give dynamism to a piece of cloth. Daniela Gregis is a designer who uses her gut. The Fall-Winter 17 collection rises...

Let’s get in formation

Military inspirations have been the big thing of the Fall-Winter 17 collections. From camo to black berets, from uniforms to strict lines, what we spotted on the runways is going to be a worldwide trend next season. After a first political collection for Dior, Maria...

Dark Shadows

Dark times, dark hues. On the runways we spotted creations, make-up and hairstyle choises reflecting our challenging contemporaneity and using dark colors to emphasize the message, sometimes in a very theatrical way. Early XX century references on Ann Demelemeester...