No Good for Me (Free subscription) | 02/20/2008
Milan, Milan, Milan: it's not as commercial as New York, not as theatrical as London, nor imaginative as Paris. So goes the common wisdom about Milan's Fashion Week. Milan: very much about a general bourgeois discretion and a sense of...
The Beautifully Damned (Free subscription) | 09/30/2007
Versace Well it was another shock for me at Versace, gone was the vulgarity, the brashness and in it's place a more, well, cooler vision. Donatella appears to have come into her own of late, clean cut chic camel pieces, silk pants, simple flesh jumpsuits, my image of the label has been changed. Well there were [...]
The Beautifully Damned (Free subscription) | 09/28/2007
Jil Sander Raf Simons has been breathing new life into this once tried fashion house, he has injected some colour and has a more feminine touch to his still architectural style. Using metres of fine silk organza, layered to give a light barely there feel to the most complex of designs. He is taking the house [...]
