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Confronting reality with an irreverent attitude, Paco Rabanne Fall/Winter ’21 collection is an affirmation of decadence. This season, Julien Dossena revisits the exquisite, exploring conspicuous embellishment as a form of empowerment. Familiar bourgeois and aristocratic codes possess a noticeable subversive streak.
“I have always started each collection by revisiting my memories. This season I began by revisiting the story of Rokh. The multi-cultural nature of my past—having been born in Korea, raised in America, studied and worked in London and Paris—made me who I am.”
For Altuzarra, Fall conveys the simultaneously wonderous and challenging process of rebirth. Imagining the collection through literature and storytelling, the season’s narrative reveals a woman at home, alternating between states of rest and anticipation..
See Giambattista Valli Fall/Winter 2021 full collection.
“75 years ago, after the incredible triumph of his house’s first couture presentation, what did Pierre Balmain do? He packed up his bags and started traveling..”
ValentinoFall/Winter 2021 Reopening a theater, even though only for the span of a show, is a bold, almost punk gesture: an invitation to aggregation and sharing when these activities are denied.
Issey Miyake Fall/Winter 2021 collection looks at the colors and shapes found in nature and grapples with them in the context of a piece of rectangular cloth, thereby bringing forward a sense of organic beauty and strength.
“Simplifying expression through complex thinking.”
The furniture may have moved, the wallpaper may have stripped down to wood — but the Kwaidan Editions woman from 6 months ago still resides in her “Psychic House”.
“I have realized that this is the future, the new way of communicating collections.” — Donatella Versace
Jonny Johansson: “Like everyone, we’ve made this collection in isolation, living a very different life to what seems normal to us. Living in isolation can often feel like a dreamscape and I wanted to express that in this collection.”
Nicolas Di Felice’s first collection for Courrèges, “I can feel your heartbeat”, is an ode to youth, looking back at a young André Courrèges and his “workshop era” beginnings when his vocabulary began to take shape.
The Alchemy AW21 collection by South African fashion designer Thebe Magugu is one that explores African Spirituality as a central premise.
A dance between purity and passion, masculine and feminine, genders fused and embraced.
See Patou Fall/Winter 2021 full collection.
“Be Humble, Sit Down, the song says. I have had these words in my head for months: think about what you do, how you really feel, how the world around you is. And do it with your eyes wide open.”
Bianca Saunders presents Superimposed, a collection for Autumn/Winter 21 that looks at positive and negative spaces, always pushing forwards the signature cuts and silhouettes of the brand.
For her final Fashion East collection, GOOMHEO peers deeper into the darkness, falling headlong into the realm of horror.
“A fanfare, a drum roll, a salute; a cavalcade, a jubilee, a coronation. Triumphant and unstoppable, striding through the festive, flag-lined city streets, the Max Mara woman is a self-made queen.”
Salvatore Ferragamo leaps forward to shape a new now. Inspired by the limitless conceptual freedom of science fiction and the house’s heritage of technical innovation, creative director Paul Andrew projects into the future to craft an alternative vision for the present.