The Business of Fashion
Agenda-setting intelligence, analysis and advice for the global fashion community.
Agenda-setting intelligence, analysis and advice for the global fashion community.
NEW YORK, United States — Rosie Assoulin doesn't like citing specific references. She's a research junkie, but her mind goes off on tangents. That's the beauty — and fun — of her work. However, the artist Taryn Simon and the notion of "impossible arrangements" did come up in a stream-of-consciousness conversation. It's an idea to which she alluded not only in the presentation set — filled with plastic palm trees and covered in fake snow — but also in the digitised neon florals and the mountains-meet-sand motif screen printed onto a loose white button up.
There were too many prints and patterns to mention, but the beach-chair-inspired slouchy trousers and notched-denim peasant skirt illustrated her perennial interest in relaxed, pleasurable-to-wear clothes.
Tim Blanks and Imran Amed discuss the highlights of the Autumn/Winter 2023 collections, including Daniel Lee’s debut at Burberry, a transitional show at Gucci and Balenciaga’s first brand statement in the wake of the advertising scandal.
Hollywood has always been close to the designer’s heart, so it was pure kismet that Donatella showed her latest collection in Los Angeles three days before the Oscars.
In an age of clickbait fashion, it was acts of reduction that, paradoxically, stood out most, reports Angelo Flaccavento.