PARIS — It’s not yet game over in the City of Lights. On Wednesday evening, the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games will open with “Paradoxe,” a show that will take place on the Champs-Elysées and Place de la Concorde. Some 150 dancers, including some with disabilities, will take part in the performance imagined with Swedish ballet … Read more
For Taakk designer Takuya Morikawa, the Japanese philosophy of reinterpreting foreign elements rather than adopting them wholesale is something he hopes to perpetuate. After all, that’s how Japan’s fashion luminaries of the 1980s and ‘90s wowed the world, in his opinion. One of Morikawa’s signatures is textile manipulation and he was in fine form with … Read more
As is tradition at Ernest W. Baker, Reid Baker and Inês Amorim layered design elements from former seasons into their garments for spring 2025. But this collection for men and women also served as an homage to Baker’s grandfather, after whom the brand was named, since he recently passed away at age 95. It served as an homage … Read more
Design duo Josef Lazo and Andreas Schmidl of Lazoschmidl went with a bare minimalist take on baring the maximum, debuting a short film during an art gallery presentation. The film, a tongue-in-cheek take on fragrance ads, showcased their mesh undergarments and plenty of flesh, while the clothes were cleverly hidden in drawers. Key pieces of … Read more
PARIS — South Korean brand System is setting down stakes in Paris with its first flagship in the Marais. It’s all part of the brand’s big global ambitions. System, which has been showing on the Paris Fashion Week calendar since 2017, is part of Handsome Corp., itself a subsidiary of Hyundai Group, the country’s third-largest … Read more
Instead of jumping through the Olympic hoops of staging a runway in Paris this season, EgonLab’s Florentin Glémarec and Kevin Nompeix absconded to London to shoot a lookbook, which was unveiled digitally. “There was this imposed calendar for the Games where some of our buyers, members of our community and even press couldn’t come,” Nompeix … Read more
Chitose Abe is cracking the books — and packing them, too. Inspired by the James Dean quote “The prime reason … for living in this world is discovery,” she studied her history and set out to find fresh sartorial techniques. She also took inspiration from Dean’s Fifties-era collegiate style, sending out models with little stacks … Read more
Jonathan Anderson’s spring men’s show for Loewe was all about restraint, a feeling you picked up the minute you arrived at the vast, seemingly empty show space, security guards encircling tiny black metal sculptures of mice on the floor, and a copy of Susan Sontag’s “Against Interpretation” splayed on the hardwood. Paraded to one of … Read more
Have you thought about hospitals recently? Neither had most people, from the look of editors backstage when Kiko Kostadinov explained the inspiration for his spring 2025 collection. “You forget how much you’re relating to these institutions post-COVID,” he said. But the designer wasn’t thinking about the pandemic or grim connotations. His train of thought started … Read more
Star soccer players Garrett Wilson, Naomi Feller, Fuka Nagano and Joel Chima, and skateboarder Marco Montoya walked Y-3’s catwalk set atop the stage of Paris’ Salle Pleyel theater. It marked the brand’s return to a fashion show format after five-and-a-half years. The timing of a big-bang production was fitting for Y-3, conceived jointly by Yohji … Read more
