Fashion designers

See every look from last night’s Valentino ‪#‎couture‬ show in Rome here:

IT won’t come as a huge surprise that the starting point for Pierpaolo Piccioli and Maria Grazia Chiuri’s couture collection was their beloved Rome. They mine the treasures of this city regularly, even the “rockstud” – those little metal pyramids stamped to Valentino’s best-selling bags and shoes – can be found here, nailed to almost every grand doorway one passes on Via Veneto and beyond. Continue Reading…

See the CHANEL Couture show from every angle:

THERE were two shows going on at this morning’s Chanel couture offering. The first was a demonstration of fine jewellery of the kind only Karl Lagerfeld could pull off. The second was his couture collection.

In the centre of the room was placed the Chanel Casino where a very select group of gamblers made their bets on the roulette wheel and Blackjack. Continue Reading…

One of the most interesting Collections presented this summer.

The British couture house showed its latest collection in Paris.

FOLLOWING last season’s abundance of flowers, feathers were the order of the day at Ralph & Russo  – presented a similarly organic but more grown-up sensibility for the house’s many hundreds of clients. Having found success in offering couture lovers a more classic aesthetic than the increasingly modern major houses, designer Tamara Ralph was ready to add a sophisticatedly sensual gown to her woman’s collection – and famous fans including Angelina Jolie and Cheryl Cole will no doubt be thrilled. Continue Reading…

PITY the poor orchid: all 25,000 of them locked under Perspex for the Versace couture catwalk that opened the Paris Haute Couture season yesterday evening. Their vivid but sensual colour mirrored in the outline of a Medusa head at the entrance reflected the softer side of Donatella’s couture vision. Continue Reading…