
However deep the freeze came over New York Monday morning, great fashion warmed plenty of hearts on this chilly day at fashion week. Three designers showed plenty to love about their collections and spirits.
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However deep the freeze came over New York Monday morning, great fashion warmed plenty of hearts on this chilly day at fashion week. Three designers showed plenty to love about their collections and spirits.
Nobody could accuse Sir Paul Smith of slowing down, even in the year he celebrates his 50th anniversary: he has still managed to produce a series of men’s and women’s collections, and has just opened his own foundation.
“Raw, instinctive, arty and dangerous,” said Miuccia Prada with a naughty twinkle in her eye after a path-breaking Miu Miu show in Paris on Tuesday, the final day of the 30-day international runway season.
A key test of a designer is influence – and few have had so much influence this century as Hedi Slimane, creative director of Celine, who sent out a haut bobo collection on Friday with plenty of cosmopolitan good taste.
At the latest Milan fashion week, designers have expressed real ecological awareness for the first time in their shows, without sacrificing creativity, business or glamour, as in any fashion week worthy of its name.
Launched by the United Nations refugee agency in 2018, and named after the 1951 Refugee Convention, Made51 links refugee artisans with social enterprises, which help them create high-end products.
Andreas Kronthaler dreamt up an insouciant spring collection for the house of Vivienne Westwood on Saturday, which nonetheless opened the door to gentle subversion.
Sir Paul Smith is practically the last of the great indie designers. A gentleman who has built a global brand on style, cool clothes and a unique amount of energy; and still controls it himself.
Cheap, Chinese-made nylon burkas are flooding Afghanistan's north as consumers turn to affordable, mass-produced fabrics. But in Kabul a small, determined fashion house is fighting to preserve traditional textiles.
The Burberry Foundation has announced a five-year commitment with charity organisation Oxfam and PUR Project to support the Afghan cashmere industry.