Category: Fashion

Alexander McQueen Seán McGirr’s second outing at Alexander McQueen took inspiration from McQueen’s own second collection from AW94, called Banshee. Folk stories of Banshees spoke to McGirr’s Celtic heritage. The once infamous bumster trousers were revisited and presented with a mesh panel below the waistband to show a flash of bottom cleavage. A strong finale […]

It’s been a whirlwind four weeks of shows, celebrities and competitive street style peacocking. The season kicked off with US first lady Jill Biden swinging by the Ralph Lauren extravaganza in the Hamptons in New York, and wrapped up with Kylie Jenner closing the Coperni show at Disneyland Paris. But while ready-to-wear collections won’t enter […]

The model Naomi Campbell’s Fashion for Relief project was the subject of a “serious incident” report filed with the Charity Commission after it claimed to be a fundraising partner of Unicef, it has emerged. Fashion for Relief put on a spectacular star-studded fashion show and charity auction held at the British Museum in 2019 at […]

When we first met Emily in Paris’s Sylvie Grateau in 2020, the high-powered marketing manager looked set to represent everything the show’s protagonist was not. Emily was bright-eyed, American and gratingly chirpy; Sylvie was cool, French and had cigarettes for lunch. Emily dressed in vivid colours and clashing prints and wore berets and bucket hats; […]

Mary Fleming was on holiday in Kenya when she saw it: a mound of secondhand clothes heaped by a river, the pile so vast and unruly it was spilling into the water. The sight shocked her. At home in Ireland she was a passionate shopper and bought a new outfit almost every weekend. Now in […]

Nicolas Ghesquière, the designer of the biggest luxury brand in the world, says that what he does is time travel, not fashion. Louis Vuitton is 170 years old but fashion only works when it is about the future, which makes time travel an essential part of the job description. Also, fancy travel is what Louis […]

The birdcage on the Chanel catwalk was empty, its door swung open. A metaphor for a house that is without a designer after Virginie Viard’s recent departure – the bird has flown – and a Chanel Easter egg, a wink to a teenage Vanessa Paradis swinging in a birdcage in a 1991 advertisement for Coco […]

The British handbag maker Mulberry has rejected an £83m takeover proposal from Mike Ashley’s Frasers Group as too low, insisting instead that it would push on with a planned fundraising to support a turnaround. The luxury brand said it had considered the approach carefully and consulted its 56.1% majority shareholder Challice, controlled by the Singaporean […]

Elizabeth Olsen on how she conquered her anxiety and embraced the roller-coaster ride of being a Hollywood star. Read the full article here Fashion editor Helen Seamons Photographer Zoe McConnell Main image: Elizabeth Olsen wears draped dress with scarf and feather sling back shoes, both erdem.com Photograph: Zoe McConnell/The Observer Tue 1 Oct 2024 08.00 CEST […]

Mike Ashley’s Frasers Group has filed a possible £83m offer to buy the luxury brand Mulberry as it expressed concerns about the future of the British handbag maker. Frasers – the owner of Sports Direct, Evans Cycles, the House of Fraser department store, luxury streetwear chain Flannels and multiple brands from Slazenger to Jack Wills […]