Month: February 2020

Galleries Beauty Collection Burberry is burnishing its green credentials, staging its first carbon-neutral show under the soaring Victorian arches of Olympia London and planning to reforest areas of Australia destroyed by the bush fires, among other environmental moves. The fall show set — a mix of the elegant and the raw — reflected this new […]

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Galleries Collection Up-and-coming designer Eftychia Karamolegkou carved a niche for herself from the get-go, by delivering tight collections of expertly tailored women’s suits. As her brand gains momentum — she was nominated for the LVMH Prize last year and Phoebe Philo is reportedly a big fan — she is keeping a sharp focus on tailoring […]

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Galleries Collection Sure, there’s “The Crown,” but designer Hannah Weiland would argue that she has always been fascinated by all aspects of Queen Elizabeth. For fall, the brand’s signature sustainable faux fur was channeled into chubbies dotted with rosettes; leopard-print coats and toppers adorned with chunky statement buttons, or strewn with a pink flower print. […]

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Galleries Collection This was a tale of two collections: Lovely leather pieces, outerwear and knits shared a runway with sheer, skintight printed trousers and flimsy dresses that resembled scraps of fabric. There is no doubt that Alexandre Arsenault and Charlotte Knowles are dab hands at design, but the whole underwear-as-outerwear aesthetic is tricky territory as […]

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Galleries Collection Held in the empty lot next to the BFC show space, the venue spanned the entire ground level, but could hardly accommodate all the guests eager to see the result of the avant-garde house’s work with the outerwear brand. “We wanted to get across the idea that we’re a ready-to-wear brand and a […]

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Galleries Collection Huishan Zhang is among the lucky few who managed to get his collection done before the Chinese New Year and fly back to London in time for fashion week before travel restrictions were imposed. For fall, he moved away from his usual Chinese movie references, and dived into the glamorous city life of […]

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Galleries Beauty This ho-hum season has been short on fresh silhouettes and fashion thrills. Enter Jonathan Anderson, who churned out new shapes and eye-catching embellishment with the ease of crumpling an aluminum beer can — incidentally, one of the more offbeat references in his fabulous fall collection. “Making an entrance” was the benchmark Anderson set […]

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