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Agenda-setting intelligence, analysis and advice for the global fashion community.
Agenda-setting intelligence, analysis and advice for the global fashion community.
LONDON, United Kingdom — Another fashion month has drawn to a close. Here, BoF picks the top ten shows of the Autumn/Winter 2018 season.
1. Undercover — designed by Jun Takahashi, PFW
Undercover Autumn/Winter 2018 | Source: InDigital
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The collection was an extraordinary, fetishistic fashion journey into the depths of the American teen psyche as idealised by a Japanese outsider.
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2. Alexander McQueen — designed by Sarah Burton, PFW
Alexander McQueen Autumn/Winter 2018 | Source: InDigital
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The attention to detail, breadth of vision and grasp of the mood of the moment combined to create a fashion force of nature.
3. Sacai — designed by Chitose Abe, PFW
Sacai Autumn/Winter 2018 | Source: InDigital
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Chitose Abe elevated her mission of hybridisation to new heights, bringing a sly wit that tricked the eye with deliberate mismatches.
4. Gucci — designed by Alessandro Michele, MFW
Gucci Autumn/Winter 2018 | Source: InDigital
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It was Alessandro Michele's most confounding excursion yet, one that made connections between the distant past, troubled present and a future in which the designer insists on optimism.
5. Calvin Klein — designed by Raf Simons, NYFW
Calvin Klein Autumn/Winter 2018 | Source: InDigital
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Raf Simons sounded a hopeful note while once again proving his mastery of an unsettling mood of menace. The threat risk was high.
6. Versace — designed by Donatella Versace, MFW
Versace Autumn/Winter 2018 | Source: InDigital
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Colour and drape united the disparate strands on display — tartan armies, African graphism — and suggested new paths of exploration for the house.
7. Balenciaga — designed by Demna Gvasalia, PFW
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Balenciaga Autumn/Winter 2018 | Source: InDigital
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Demna Gvasalia has a refreshing imperturbable point of view. If this collection is any indication, he will only find more interesting ways to exercise it.
8. Erdem — designed by Erdem Moralioglu, LFW
Erdem Autumn/Winter 2018 | Source: InDigital
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The designer was practically guaranteed a star collection when he turned to the glamorous life of Adele Astaire for inspiration, bringing a new substance to his world.
9. Loewe — designed by Jonathan Anderson, PFW
Loewe Autumn/Winter 2018 | Source: InDigital
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There was a harmony in the alluring, shruggy casualness of the collection — a quality that Jonathan Anderson should be able to take all the way to the bank.
10. Coach — designed by Stuart Vevers, NYFW
Coach Autumn/Winter 2018 | Source: InDigital
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If Coach has been America's house of leather for 76 years, this collection was its evolution into an American luxury brand.
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