Tim Blanks

Is There a New Gucci Brewing?

Tim Blanks talks in-depth to Alessandro Michele about his multi-day ‘GucciFest’ and desire to transcend ‘the old world’ before the pandemic.

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Kim Jones

Tim Blanks’ Top Fashion Shows of All-Time: Kim Jones Autumn/Winter 2005

19 November 2020 • By Tim Blanks

BoF’s editor at large remembers one of Jones’ earliest collections, ‘a celebration of youth’ where the future took a sharp edge.

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Tim Blanks’ Top Fashion Shows of All-Time: Kim Jones Autumn/Winter 2005

BoF’s editor at large remembers one of Jones’ earliest collections, ‘a celebration of youth’ where the future took a sharp edge.

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Undercover

Tim Blanks’ Top Fashion Shows of All-Time: Undercover Autumn/ Winter 2020

6 November 2020 • By Tim Blanks

BoF’s Editor-at-Large goes back to Jun Takahashi’s dark, idiosyncratic obsessions with his 'Fallen Man' show.

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Tim Blanks’ Top Fashion Shows of All-Time: Undercover Autumn/ Winter 2020

BoF’s Editor-at-Large goes back to Jun Takahashi’s dark, idiosyncratic obsessions with his 'Fallen Man' show.

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Craig Green

Craig Green’s Eerie Beauty

30 October 2020 • By Tim Blanks

The designer’s clothes-first attitude made for a restricted, mostly monochrome Spring/Summer 2021 collection that appeared to be dressing people for serious times ahead, writes Tim Blanks.

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Craig Green’s Eerie Beauty

The designer’s clothes-first attitude made for a restricted, mostly monochrome Spring/Summer 2021 collection that appeared to be dressing people for serious times ahead, writes Tim Blanks.

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Umit Benan

Tim Blanks’ Top Fashion Shows of All-Time: Umit Benan Autumn/Winter 2012, January 16, 2012

30 October 2020 • By Tim Blanks

BoF's editor-at-large travels back in time to January 2012, when the menswear designer made his stellar debut on the Milan runway, taking the suit back to its sartorial roots in the military.

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Tim Blanks’ Top Fashion Shows of All-Time: Umit Benan Autumn/Winter 2012, January 16, 2012

BoF's editor-at-large travels back in time to January 2012, when the menswear designer made his stellar debut on the Milan runway, taking the suit back to its sartorial roots in the military.

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Raf Simons

At Raf Simons, Children of the Coronavirus

24 October 2020 • By Tim Blanks

The designer’s Spring 2021 collection for his namesake label, the first to include womenswear, offered an ominous meditation on coming of age in the time of Covid-19.

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At Raf Simons, Children of the Coronavirus

The designer’s Spring 2021 collection for his namesake label, the first to include womenswear, offered an ominous meditation on coming of age in the time of Covid-19.

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Jean Paul Gaultier

Tim Blanks’ Top Fashion Shows of All Time | Jean Paul Gaultier, Spring/Summer 1994, October 1993

23 October 2020 • By Tim Blanks

BoF’s Editor-at-Large journeys back to a show that fused Indian mysticism, 18th century silhouettes, 13th century martyrdom, haute couture, punk, fetish wear, denim and the body — tattoo-ed, scarified, pushed on and on to the ‘(un)limits’ of Gaultier’s imagination.

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Jean Paul Gaultier

Tim Blanks’ Top Fashion Shows of All Time | Jean Paul Gaultier, Spring/Summer 1994, October 1993

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Independent Women Brought Hope to Fashion’s Virtual Spring

19 October 2020 • By Tim Blanks

Women designers, from Stella McCartney to Sacai’s Chitose Abe to Tory Burch, brought a sense of hope and purpose to the Spring shows, writes Tim Blanks.

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Comme des Garçons

Tim Blanks’ Top Fashion Shows of All Time | Comme des Garçons Autumn/Winter 2012, March 3, 2012

15 October 2020 • By Tim Blanks

BoF’s Editor-at-Large revisits a Rei Kawakubo riddle that took years to decode.

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Comme des Garçons

Tim Blanks’ Top Fashion Shows of All Time | Comme des Garçons Autumn/Winter 2012, March 3, 2012

BoF’s Editor-at-Large revisits a Rei Kawakubo riddle that took years to decode.

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Balenciaga

Tim Blanks’ Top Fashion Shows of All-Time: Balenciaga Autumn/Winter 2006, 28 February, 2006

9 October 2020 • By Tim Blanks

BoF’s editor at large looks back at one of Nicolas Ghesquière's most memorable collections for the house — one that would influence fashion for years to come.

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