Prada Autumn/Winter 2024

At Milan Fashion Week, Prada showed its Autumn/Winter 2024 collection. In the latest episode of Backstage Pass, Imran Amed talks to industry insiders to decode why Prada has been such consistently influential brand. Imran spoke to Cathy Horyn, Katie Grand, Tracee Ellis Ross, Somi and many others.

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Bottega Veneta Autumn/Winter 2024

Imran Amed talks to industry insiders to understand how Matthieu Blazy’s uses the power of craft and innovation at Bottega Veneta. At one of the most impactful shows of Autumn/Winter 2024 season, Imran spoke to artists, designers and entertainers including Asap Rocky, Simone Marchetti, Kelly Wearstler and Anita Elizabeth Bitton to understand how Blazy creates fashion moments.

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Etro Autumn/Winter 2024

At Milan Fashion Week, Etro showed its Autumn/Winter 2024 collection. Imran spoke to creative director Marco de Vincenzo, as well as Gabriella Karefa-Johnson, Alek Wek, Suzy Menkes, Bryan Boy and others to decode what Etro is all about.

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Tom Ford Autumn/Winter 2024

Watch the latest episode of BoF’s Backstage Pass where Tim Blanks meets Peter Hawkings to learn about his sophomore collection for Tom Ford.Resist or embrace? Iconoclast or understudy? Peter Hawkings clearly loves being in control at Tom Ford after 25 years working as Ford’s right hand. “I’m creating my woman, my man,” he said emphatically before his show in Milan

Hawkings insisted there was no archive-diving. It’s all forward with Ford. If the shadow cast by his old boss was as long as the spotlight-dappled catwalk in the outré revelation of clinging mesh or near-nude net confections, Hawkings’ experience as Ford’s menswear designer suggested he was probably more at ease with the gold-buttoned navy looks or the pin-sharp tailoring of three-piece suits, worn shirtless by all genders. When he showed see-through flasher’s macs in latex, they were primly buttoned to the throat.

But Hawkings insisted the inspirational creature he had in mind for his collection — his powerhouse wife Whitney aside — was actually the Pola Woman, the strong-shouldered dominatrix archetype who ruled photographer Helmut Newton’s fetishistic universe. “Powerful, glamorous, free to be as dressed or undressed as she chooses,” was how he described her. Hawkings imagined his tailoring as a kind of armour, elevating her, keeping her standing tall.

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Marni Autumn/Winter 2024

For Francesco Risso’s first Marni show back in Milan after traveling shows in New York, Tokyo and Paris he created a venue like a blank slate, covered with white paper. Everything in the collection was made by hand, painted, crafted, pieced together. A Marni show feels like being transported into a different universe, and so different from the manufactured and polished tents of the mega brands.

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Versace Autumn/Winter 2024

Imran Amed talks to industry insiders to understand what makes the Versace woman. On Saturday the brand showed its Autumn/Winter 2024 collection, Imran spoke to the show’s makeup artist Pat McGrath and hair stylist Guido Palau, as well as Gigi Hadid, Imaan Hammam, and others to decode what Versace is all about.

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Ferragamo Autumn/Winter 2024

“You can have an evolution without having a revolution.”

In the latest episode of Backstage Pass, Imran Amed talks to Ferragamo’s show producer Etienne Russo, Liu Wen, Mona Tougaard and other insiders about the brand’s evolution through creative director Maximilian Davis.

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