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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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Celine

At Celine, Hedi Slimane’s ‘Portrait of a Generation’

26 October 2020 • By Angelo Flaccavento

The designer’s latest ode to youth lacked vitality. Take away the Celine logos and it could have been anything, but there was plenty of tempting merchandise, writes Angelo Flaccavento.

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At Celine, Hedi Slimane’s ‘Portrait of a Generation’

The designer’s latest ode to youth lacked vitality. Take away the Celine logos and it could have been anything, but there was plenty of tempting merchandise, writes Angelo Flaccavento.

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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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Independent Women Brought Hope to Fashion’s Virtual Spring

19 October 2020 • By Tim Blanks

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Independent Women Brought Hope to Fashion’s Virtual Spring

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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Louis Vuitton

At Louis Vuitton, Between Masculine and Feminine

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.

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At Louis Vuitton, Between Masculine and Feminine

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.

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Maison Margiela

No Going Back at 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.

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No Going Back at Margiela

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.

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At Paris Fashion Week, Real Life and Liberation

6 October 2020 • By Angelo Flaccavento

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At Paris Fashion Week, Real Life and Liberation

Reality was front and centre at Paris Fashion Week, but this season’s winners both addressed and transcended our current state of affairs, reports Angelo Flaccavento, who beamed into Paris from his base in Italy.

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Chanel

Chanel in Hollywood

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.

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Chanel in Hollywood

Virginie Viard’s latest collection was a salute to cinema, but it could have done with a bit more magic.

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Giambattista Valli

Giambattista Valli’s Mediterranean Stroll

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.’

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Giambattista Valli

Giambattista Valli’s Mediterranean Stroll

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Thom Browne

The Monumental and Minimal at 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.

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Thom Browne

The Monumental and Minimal at Thom Browne

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.

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