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GIORGIO ARMANI AUTUMN/WINTER 2015-16 READY-TO-WEAR MILAN FASHION WEEK There is always a mini essay waiting on your seat at a Giorgio Armani show, an explanation of the whats and whys of the latest collection. But today there was nothing. Armani wanted his guests to come to their own conclusions. In 2015, the 40th anniversary of his ...

TER ET BANTINE AUTUMN/WINTER 2015-16 READY-TO-WEAR MILAN FASHION WEEK For his debut collection at Ter et Bantine, Kostas Murkudis took the life of Sarla Thakral, India's first female aviator, as a loose starting point—so loose that her name was spelled incorrectly on the press notes. More broadly, this was a paean to feminine professionalism, Murkudis said. ...

LOUIS VUITTON AUTUMN/WINTER 2015-16 READY-TO-WEAR PARIS FASHION WEEK It's been a year now since Nicolas Ghesquière's Louis Vuitton debut. Sitting in the geodesic domes set up in the shadow of the Fondation Louis Vuitton at his show this morning, what struck you most was just how comfortable Ghesquière seems with this gig. It can't be straightforward ...

MONCLER GAMME ROUGE AUTUMN/WINTER 2015-16 READY-TO-WEAR PARIS FASHION WEEK The Moncler Gamme Rouge show ended with a parade of models in red riding coats escorted by dancers dressed as Queen's Guard soldiers. It was the type of campy grand finale that, on the final day of Paris fashion week, could have been a hallucination (Instagram, thankfully, ...

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LONGCHAMP AUTUMN/WINTER 2015-16 READY-TO-WEAR PARIS FASHION WEEK In 2006 Sophie Delafontaine, creative director at Longchamp, rustled up a few coats to put onto mannequins in-store. The idea was that her family company's handbags looked rather fetching hanging off the crook of their plastic arms. Then, a few seasons later, she started delving into ready-to-wear proper. Now ...