Fall 2020 Trends From The Runway Gasp! Sigh! The OMG moments just kept coming from Oscar de la Renta’s fall 2020 RTW collection. Spearheaded by the great design duo Laura Kim and Fernando Garcia, these two ooze luxury in everything they do. Compliments to them for carrying on the ODLR brand. Rich faille, smooth merino […]
Saturated Color Is King at Paris Fashion Week Fall 2019 Bruno Sialelli has the daunting task of bringing The House of Lanvin to relevancy into today’s fickle market. His 2019 fall RTW was a brave- bordering on trying too hard- attempt to reach an audience. While the quality was on par with the brand’s luxe […]
We’re off to an interesting start with the London Fashion Week Fall 2019 Collections with no clear trends in sight. As with the New York shows, natural leather and supple leathers seem to be a clear front runner in the bunch. Uncharacteristic of English sensibilities, we are seeing bursts of vibrant colors that have us […]
Fashion for fall 2019 New York Fashion Week RTW has, for sure, taken a seat at the grown up table this season. Less about casual, throw away fashion and more toward investment dressing for the savvy, sensible shopper, the collections reflect a more cultivated and curated taste for a sophisticated woman who knows her body […]
Sex and Sizzle. Innovation and creativity. Glamour and sophistication. Milan Fashion Week is hitting the high notes of fashion for fall 2018 with exciting looks that will have consumers handing over their credit cards. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyUu7yOowg4&ab_channel=WGSN Bolo hats, spectator shoes, crimson floral brocades and appliqués made for a his-and-her’s 1893 World’s Fair kind of jubilee of […]
Designers are continuing to focus on a more feminine appeal for pre-fall 2018 with a range of styles from Victorian to urban sophisticate. The focus is on luxury with silks, cashmeres, leathers, mohair and, of course, plenty of shearling and fur. Details make all the difference and accessories are putting the final punctuation on collections […]
As the London Spring Summer 2018 shows started we felt a renewed sense of excitement. The runways here are known for bold creativity, often bordering on the eccentric, as well as extraordinary tailoring and luxurious fabrics. Fashion here can be wild and unexpected or steeped in rich sartorial traditions. Will we see a departure from […]
More from the Spring/ Summer 2018 runways of New York… Finale of Marc Jacobs’s spring/summer 2018 show Spring/ Summer 2018 Takes Shape Victoria Beckham, in her spring/summer 2018 RTW collection, riffed on a men’s wear theme. Boxy, oversize shirts, blazers with large lapel collars, and three piece suited styles dominated her collection but Beckham softened […]
The Spring/ Summer 2018 collections have begun their march down the runways and across the venues of New York and from the hefty fashion calendar; it looks to be quite a week! And if you believe, as we do, that fashion is more than just clothes on a model, the fashions shown during these Spring/Summer […]
Overall, refined trademarks touches dominated the Cruise 2018 collections delivering strong signature pieces and and cohesive collection themes throughout. Refinement Personified in the Cruise 2018 Collections Few designers have a better understanding of the high points of luxury fashion than Carolina Herrera. Impeccable tailoring, luxe fabrics and elegant detailing are the highlights of her collections […]
If you’ve been following us on Facebook for the past few days then you know we’ve been working it at the 2017 ILOE Show, the International Luxury Outerwear Expo in Chicago. The key trends that were established on the runways of New York, London, Paris and Milan provide the inspiration for the exhibitors here as […]
The Paris Fashion Week Fall 2017 collections are reminding us that one of fashion’s key challenges is to re-imagine the old to create the new and extraordinary. Designers look to the fashion archives, pulling favorite references from decades past to determine shapes, tailoring and details. They then add new twists and unexpected treatments to create […]