Imitation sable fur, shaggy suede, smooth satin and unusual textures - in the fall-winter 2024/2025 season, fashion brands offer a new look at old materials. In this review, I have collected for you the 7 main textures of this winter and I am ready to bet that next season they will only change places in…

In the absence of an artistic director, the house team decided to hold the Métiers d'Art Chanel show on a lake in Hangzhou, China, and invited more than four hundred guests to the event. Coco Chanel had never been to Hangzhou, but the landscapes of this lake adorned one of her 32 screens in her apartment at…

Issey Miyake's spring 2025 show was all about paper. Audiences sat on round stools made from compressed paper cylinders (ready to be recycled), and the collection featured looks created using paper. To the sound of dripping water, dresses with veils covering the head appeared on the catwalk: the flowing curves of the drapery and the…

Carolina Herrera creative director Wes Gordon staged his resort show at Mexico City's famed Anacahualli Museum, designed by Diego Rivera to house his extensive collection of pre-Columbian and pre-Hispanic artifacts. "I knew from the beginning that we were performing in Anacahualli. Color is something I always start my process with, and the idea of ​​the sunset colors…

I continue my guide to the spring-summer 2025 collections with a story about the main palette of the season. This time on the catwalks there was a real fight between pastel and active, energetic colors, which ended in a draw. How is this possible, you ask, if we are talking about 5 colors? It's all…

Bally creative director Simone Bellotti created his spring collection with the refined grace that has become his calling card. The collection was called Counterpoint (from the Latin punctus contra punctum – point against point). In music, this is the simultaneous combination of two or more independent melodic lines in different voices. Bellotti, like a seasoned conductor, tried…

Donatella Versace's starting point for Spring 2025 was 1997 and the spring show of Versus , a diffusion line that Donatella designed in her own image. "I was drawn to the spring of 1997 because it was a joyful moment. In the 90s there was freedom, happiness, not too much thought and a more relaxed attitude towards…

As children, we all dreamed of becoming adults as soon as possible. When my mother was not at home, I often tried on her dresses and high heels and happily slammed them loudly around the apartment. From a young age, I understood that fashion could transform me into a grown-up lady, and all that was…

Alaïa's spring 2025 show took place at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, an iconic building designed by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright. It should be noted that this building has never hosted a fashion show before. The Guggenheim served not just as a location, but as a real source of inspiration – “the curves of…

"I think the recipe for fashion is not to be fashionable. The recipe for fashion is to be yourself," said Balmain creative director Olivier Rousteing, commenting on the spring-summer 2025 collection. In addition, the designer noted that Balmain has returned to the broadest luxury category of all: beauty . Which brings the brand back to its roots, codes and,…