Matthieu Blazy comes out of the shadows.   Mattheui Blazy, couture designer at Martin Margiela with Raf Simons With a touch of the exotic in the fabrics and a tinge of the erotic in flesh-revealing patchworks, an exceptional collection at Maison Martin Margiela brought the designer Matthieu Blazy out of the shadows. It is rare […]

© InDigital ‘I created all my own fabrics, mixing Lesage embroidery with leather – it really is couture,’ said Bouchra Jarrar, who has been building her line of streamlined clothes with a sporty edge, laced with intricate handwork. The tranquil beauty of a cloistered garden was a romantic background to knitted tweed on glazed leather […]

© InDigital The backdrop of a giant swan, inspired by a famous Russian painting, gave a new, harder edge to the Russian fairy story style of Ulyana Sergeenko. Here was a Soviet take on her native country, with a military black leather coat opening the show and striking mohair sweaters with the graphic patterns of constructivist […]

Real clothes with a touch of whimsy. © InDigital ‘Sometimes a nuance is enough.’ – Giorgio Armani It seemed like an early celebration for Friday’s 80th birthday, when Giorgio Armani received the famous backstage: hugging his faithful actress friend Sophia Loren, flamboyant in scarlet; greeting Kate Hudson, in a diamond weave dress; and posing with […]

Lightning strike jewellery from Eugenie Niarchos Venyx World collection The lightning strikes, the torrential rains, the current wild and stormy weather from Europe to Japan – all that was foretold in Venyx World, the jewellery line of Eugenie Niarchos. Ear cuffs by Eugenie Niarchos for Venyx World Wearing her electric storm yellow gold and diamond […]

Couture as a blend of Baroque and Modernism. © InDigital ‘It’s Baroque meets Le Corbusier’ – Karl Lagerfeld © InDigital Like the dying embers of a baroque world, a gilded mirror hung in a modernist white space above a digitally-flamed fire, Bill Viola style, as seen in the video artist’s Paris exhibition at the Grand Palais. […]

‘It’s always a love story,’ says Giambattista Valli   © InDigital ‘It’s always a love story,’ said Giambattista Valli backstage. He was referring not to his adoring clients flinging their arms around him, thanking him for their beloved wedding gowns, but to the tale he had concocted for his autumn couture collection. ‘I was thinking […]

 A balance between Raf Simons and the legacy of Christian Dior. © InDigital  ‘I never thought I would be looking at Marie Antoinette as a 20th-century astronaut!’ – Raf Simons © InDigital Charlize Theron, in a silvered, bare-back dress, her partner Sean Penn in tow, fought her way backstage at the Dior show on Monday, […]

Squirrels and rats scurry through a revitalised Schiaparelli.   It was against all the rules: huge shoulders on fragile figures; puffed up sleeves of fox or sable; prints of lowly creatures like moths, rats and squirrels; and off-kilter colours for slithering silken dresses, with a dash of shocking pink velvet. This was Elsa Schiaparelli revitalised […]

Versace: a modern take on couture’s golden era. Donatella Versace, backstage  ‘I was inspired by 1950s couture: tailoring, structure, perfection.’ – Donatella Versace    Versace Haute Couture Looks 30, 18 & 08 © InDigital With Versace, the Paris haute couture season sparked to life. Make that the Italian couture shows, for the French seem to be letting […]