Browsing Category Pairs Fashion Week

Rochas Spring 2017 Ready-to-Wear Paris Fashion Week Since signing on to Rochas in 2013, Alessandro Dell’Acqua has put the accent on whimsy. A quick sweep of the e-commerce sites that stock the brand reveals duchesse satin floral-print skirts, gold lamé pants, and sequined Mary Janes, with the odd coat or two for ballast. For Spring, Dell’Acqua ...

Guy Laroche Spring 2017 Ready-to-Wear Paris Fashion Week It is Adam Andrascik’s fourth season at the helm of Guy Laroche and, boy, can he cut a great pant. It may not always be in the fabric that you’d prefer—dark sparkly denim, say, or a sheer plasticky nylon—but it is of optimal proportions, long of leg and ...

A.F. Vandevorst Spring 2017 Ready-to-Wear Paris Fashion Week For A.F. Vandevorst’s Spring collection, An Vandevorst and Filip Arickx worked with artist Dirk Braeckman on a short film to bring their designs to life—departing from their usual runway show format. The clip, which features a trio of recalcitrant misfits ranging around the Belgian music festival Pukkelpop, opens ...

Maticevski Spring 2017 Ready-to-Wear Paris Fashion Week For Spring, there’s a rising tide of chatter around volume in clothing—and the wearability of revived forms and unconventional silhouettes in the day-to-day. We’ve seen it at Marni with gigantic cargo pockets; Jil Sander with statement shoulders; and at last night’s buzzy Jacquemus show with exaggerated shoulders and sleeves. ...

Dries Van Noten Spring 2017 Ready-to-Wear Paris Fashion Week “We wanted a more brutal way of doing things,” declared Dries Van Noten, who must be the least brutalist designer on earth. “We just started to chop up garments and throw flower prints on. Everything contrasting!” But you got what he was talking about. Spontaneity, the energy ...

Yang Li Spring 2017 Ready-to-Wear Paris Fashion Week Is it too soon to start pulling out fashion month trends? From Milan to Paris, already we have a series of similarities among the clothes—or is it the lack of clothes? From Anthony Vaccarello’s 1980s-inspired decadence (and diamanté pastie!) for his debut at Saint Laurent to the sheer ...