PFW AW22: Louis Vuitton
ENCAPSULATING the beauty of freedom, the Louis Vuitton AW22 collection explored the boundaries of convention, refusing resistance to expand into a new world of adolescence, free of restrictions.
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PFW AW22: Balenciaga
WHAT had intended to be a Balenciaga collection focused on climate change became a defiant message for all those in Ukraine, “a dedication to fearlessness, to resistance, and to the victory of love and peace”.
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PFW AW22: Saint Laurent by Anthony Vaccarello
ECHOING the Parisian winter’s sky that it was set beneath, the Saint Laurent AW22 collection was coated in black, accentuated only by glittering metals that reflected the stars, or one could argue, the Eiffel T...
MFW AW22: Bottega Veneta
“IT IS style over fashion in its timelessness. That is part of its quiet power,” the Creative Director of Bottega Veneta, Matthieu Blazy, said when exploring the fundamentals of the brand for his debut collecti...
The Mondrian Shoreditch. Revamped, revitalised and ready for London
FOLLOWING a major overhaul and complete redesign by award-winning London interior design studio Goddard Littlefair, the latest addition to the Accor group and east London's corner of boutique luxury, the Mondri...
LFW AW22: Robyn Lynch
ARMED with a dedicated and continuous move toward sustainability, the Dublin-born menswear designer Robyn Lynch and her collections have evolved to become a symbol of fashion with purpose. Since founding her ep...
PFW SS22 Haute Couture: Valentino
WITH videos of Creative Director, Pierpaolo Piccioli, in floods of tears leaving the runway and being embraced by his army of models swarming social media shortly after his Valentino Haute Couture show, it quic...
The Glass Wardrobe Files – we interview Jefferson Ihenacho, founder of One of a Kind Archive
DESCRIBED as the secret weapon behind many of the most iconic celebrity and model fashion moments of the past two decades, Jefferson Ihenacho and his One of a Kind store that opened in 1997 are well-lov...
PFWM AW22: Nigo makes his debut at Kenzo
TAKING the helm of Kenzo in September 2021, the streetwear artist Nigo has made his entry into the luxury fashion market a memorable one. In the week ahead of his catwalk debut, the Kenzo Instagram was cleared,...
The Glass Wardrobe Files – we interview Alex, otherwise known as @margielacollector
ASKING to remain anonymous for this interview, the Maison Margiela collector – who goes simply by the name of Alex – appeared on Instagram in 2018 under the handle @margielacollector.
The accou...
The Glass Wardrobe Files – we meet Steven Phillip, owner of Mr Steven Phillip Studio
KNOWN for co-founding the west London vintage emporium, Rellik, in 1999, Steven Philip is a master of vintage fashion with a network of contacts that most sellers yearn for. In 2018, Philip sold his sha...
The Glass Wardrobe Files – we interview Gill Linton, CEO of Byronesque Vintage
FUELLED by a passion to preserve and promote the great designs of the past for the 21st century consumer, Gill Linton, CEO of vintage e-commerce platform Byronesque, cares deeply about nurturing the best of fas...
The Dior Men’s AW22 collection
IN a groundbreaking move, Kim Jones took the show for his latest Dior collection to his home town of London. It is a bold yet understandable manoeuvre for Dior, a brand rich with cultural ties to the country; D...
Virgil Was Here. Louis Vuitton pays tribute to Abloh in Miami show
CROSSING lines, climbing hills, entering unknown gates, looping downwards, into the expanse, to fly in the air. Echoing the course of a paper plane, the clip that opens Virgil Abloh’s last show for Louis Vuitto...
The Glass Wardrobe Files – we interview Johnny Valencia the founder of Pechuga Vintage
SELF-diagnosed as addicted to vintage fashion, Johnny Valencia acknowledges his extraordinary shopping habits. Nevertheless, what may be a hindrance to others has become a business model for Valencia...
The Glass Wardrobe Files – we interview Etienne Bolduc the founder of My Clothing Archive
WITH an inimitable intent to fill in the many unfortunate gaps in menswear fashion history, Etienne Bolduc began My Clothing Archive in a hope to set a new precedent within the community for documenting archiva...
PFW SS22: Miu Miu
USHERING in a new Miu Miu woman, the SS22 collection by Miuccia Prada reshuffled the foundations of everyday dress to create new appreciations of womenswear, free from the restrictions it so often is confined t...
PFW SS22: Acne Studios
MARKING their return to the runway since the pandemic began, the Acne Studios SS22 collection homed in on the brand’s signature of experimenting, clashing historic and futuristic reference points in the process...
PFW SS22: Ottolinger
“HI! We’re Ottolinger!” reads the opening page of the Ottolinger SS22 press release. It’s a bold welcome. The double exclamation mark is widely understood as a professional no no, but Ottolinger are hardly the ...
PFW SS22: Marine Serre
“FASHION is about more than draping fabric and making a profit, it can be a place where we are free to take meaningful action,” Marine Serre noted in the show notes for her SS22 collection titled Fichu pour Fic...
Glass reviews the Vivienne Westwood: Catwalk book
“WESTWOOD’s clothes force you to think,” says Alexander Fury in the introduction to the Vivienne Westwood Catwalk book. And oh how I thought when flicking through its glorious pages. It's a magical feeling to b...