Ready-to-Wear - Spring 2021
Raf Simons
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.
19 October 2020 • By Tim Blanks
Louis Vuitton
7 October 2020 • By Angelo Flaccavento
While not particularly convincing in conceptual terms, the collection was well suited to real life, making for one of Nicolas Ghesquière’s strongest outings for the French megabrand.
Maison Margiela
7 October 2020 • By Tim Blanks
John Galliano has never been afraid of excess, but there’s something about the language he has developed at Margiela that simultaneously, paradoxically releases and tames it.
6 October 2020 • By Angelo Flaccavento
Chanel
6 October 2020 • By Tim Blanks
Virginie Viard’s latest collection was a salute to cinema, but it could have done with a bit more magic.
Giambattista Valli
5 October 2020 • By Angelo Flaccavento
The collection was quintessentially Valli with its elegance, attention to detail and well-coiffed Parisian femininity, but it came with the ease of a sketch, or as the designer put it ‘a stroll on the Mediterranean.’
Thom Browne
5 October 2020 • By Tim Blanks
For all the grandiosity of the setting and the difficulties of realising such a production under strict pandemic restrictions, it felt surprisingly breezy for Browne.
Balenciaga
4 October 2020 • By Tim Blanks
For Pre-Collection Summer 2021, Demna Gvasalia refreshed his signature fusion of sport, street and salon with a play on WFH-wear and a sharp focus on sustainability.
Givenchy
4 October 2020 • By Angelo Flaccavento
The new designer is clearly on a mission to project the French house into the future with his fierce urban sensibility, but at times the results looked a little rigid, even icy.
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