Article Archive for September 2011
“Very French and very chic,” is how Peter Copping summed up his Spring/Summer 2012 collection for Nina Ricci .
Do you know what Fridays need? A little bit of pretty, courtesy of a brand new weekly feature here on CQ – Friday Frocks.
It is the customer service story that has made headlines around the world. Aussie dress retailer GASP has literally left one shopper gasping after she received a case of the Pretty Womans following a shopping …
Fashion fans have followed Emma Watson’s career from cute kid to style icon with great interest, but it’s been a while since we last took a look at her red carpet moments. Now her life as a Harry Potter star has come to a close (the final piece of the…
Roland Mouret’s collections almost always have a hint of the 1940s about them. His vintage style silhouette of choice, a curve-enhacing mid length dress, often with cap or short sleeves, is never far away, and this collection was no exception with plenty of options for the die hard fan,…
Dries Van Noten came across James Reeve’s work in 2010 when he was president of the jury at the fashion festival in Hy
“Freedom.” That was Felipe Oliveira Baptista ‘s starting point for this season, which he attributed to everything from the Arab Spring to just being plain thankful to have the freedom to do what he does. On the runway, it translated into models breezing by with streaming hair in sporty pull-on dresses and sleek motorcycle pants. Both were punched up with contrast zips, which ran up and down dresses and snaked around legs
“Like a journey through the vortex of cinema.” That’s how Marco Zanini summed up his Spring collection before listing a string of references including sci-fi kitchen-sink dramas, Hitchcock, Tim Burton, and John Waters. “It’s very personal,” he added. That means it wasn’t short on quirkiness.
The planets aligned for Gareth Pugh tonight. He got to show his clothes just the way he’d always wanted—with his longtime collaborators Matthew Stone and Ruth Hogben providing, respectively, brilliant sound and vision to enhance his collection.
Martine Sitbon has enough years in the game to never work a reference too literally. Though her magpie travel inspiration plucked from Morocco, China, Mexico, and Mitteleuropa, you’d be hard-pressed to categorize the results. It made for Rue du Mail ‘s softest and most romantic collection in years.
