In a week of radical resort collections, Dior spoke the feminist language, but conventional beauty prevailed Resort/Cruise has been sensational this year. From its status as platform for expanded capsule shows, it’s produced outliers and wildcards this time. Shouldn’t all fashion aspire to this? Chiuri’s heart-felt influences For Maria Grazia Chiuri’s Dior, …
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Gucci Cruise 2024 – Great Art in the Interim
Between one designer’s departure and another’s arrival, Gucci hit a rich futuristic vein in Seoul. Creative Designer Alessandro Michel’s departure from Gucci last November has left a hole at Gucci that won’t be properly filled until Sabato de Sarno takes over for Spring ’24. In the interim was an Autumn/Winter ’23 collection …
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Chanel’s Resort 2024 collection binged on 90’s TV Resort can offer a more relaxed break from A/W/S/S’s cycle of collections. Dial down the serious and up the short skirts’ length for short break fun. Chanel’s angle is always to be as Chanel as possible, realized here in blonde bombshell looks, because Chanel’s holiday was …
AI is Taking Over Fashion? Why choose a Modelling Career?
Is It Game Over? If you listen to Vogue or other mainstream sources, you should probably forget a modelling career! DataGrid and other big tech companies have moved in, and they’re staying. They create realistic, fully adaptable AI models that brands like Nike and Balmain use in their ads, putting models out of work quicker …
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Pucci S/S ’23 – Beauty for Who?
Pucci’s swirly and sporty clothes were particularly impactful on May 07th at Società Canottieri Firenze – an historic Italian rowing club on Florence’s River Arno. The show was a reminder – after Coronation weekend in the UK – that fashion can speak to the future; that less formal clothing can …
Louis Vuitton PREFALL 2023 – A Bridge Too Far?
Louis Vuitton Pre-Fall 2023 aroused some of the same Arabian moods prominent from Nicolas Ghesquière’s Fall RTW collection in Paris in March, but had so much more to ply, especially in the early stretch. And what a stretch! A cold, blustery, and interminably long section of Jamsugyo Bridge in Seoul. …
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