Oda Pausma’s installation There are only a couple of influential fashion schools in Europe, amongst them is the Dutch ArtEZ Institute of the Arts (aka Fashion Institute Arnhem) with an MA course that has developed industry leaders like Viktor & Rolf and Lucas Ossendrijver of Lanvin. This Fashion Week, the school introduced eight new graduates [...]
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Maria Luisa at Paris Fashion Week F/W10
March 15, 2010 – 9:56 am
Maria Luisa has been Paris’ retail reference for the best new international designers since 1988, introducing revolutionary names like Riccardo Tisci, Nicolas Ghesquière and Christopher Kane into the city’s fashion vocabulary. Now Maria Luisa Poumaillou, the woman behind the shop, has launched her own clothing line of reasonably priced (mostly) knitwear. The idea is to [...]
Christian Wijnants at Paris Fashion Week F/W10
March 15, 2010 – 8:42 am
Christian Wijnants’ presentation took place at an architecture gallery in the heart of the Marais, and despite the location there was not a structured look in site. Formulated in natural and saturated earth tones like saffron, caramel, camel and rust, the collection was a multi-layered dream of velvet, silk and wool sheer tops, hooded capes [...]
Junko Shimada at Paris Fashion Week F/W10
March 15, 2010 – 7:03 am
Junko Shimada is known as the most Parisian of the Japanese designers. She moved to the City of Light in the ’60s and created her eponymous line in 1981. Nearly 30 years later, Shimada’s F/W10 collection proved that she can still keep up with the best of them. Bright late ’60s-style graphics and geometric prints [...]
Backstage at Cerruti at Paris Fashion Week F/W10
March 14, 2010 – 6:08 pm
Images by Spela Kasal. From left: Anna de Ruk (Viva); Hanna Rundolf (Marilyn). F/W10 marked London-based Australian designer Richard Nicoll’s debut for the French Cerruti. Showing on the final day of Paris and all fashion weeks, Nicoll exemplified fall’s texture trend, featuring a series of tone-on-tone looks ranging from raspberry to grey and from petrol [...]
