Fashion month is officially back. After a year of mostly digital and online shows, fashion week in New York, London, Milan, and Paris returned with in-person events, lively street style, and celebrity-studded front rows. With this type of high anticipation, designers pulled out all the stops, whether it was throwing a full-on festival like Balmain to celebrate Olivier Rousteing’s 10th anniversary with the brand, or rethinking the fashion show format as a whole, such as Telfar holding a press conference to launch its community-focused TV program or Balenciaga hosting a red carpet for its short film with The Simpsons. Entertainment antics aside, the fashion crowd showed up for the clothes, after all. For Spring 2022, expect a lot more Y2K styles, thanks to...

In a dark, creepy forest, something special sits buried in the undergrowth of the mossy floor—an Alexander McQueen bag, protected by the natural critters of the dark setting. The incongruous visual comes from Alexander McQueen’s gifting 2021 collection, with a campaign film and sequence of stills by animation director Isabel Garrett, who draws us into the world of McQueen through stop motion and puppetry. Garrett is also a resident artist at The Sarabande Foundation, established by Lee Alexander McQueen to support creativity. The edgy yet luxurious codes of the house are woven into a short film advertising the holiday gifting collection, with thick moss, spindly birds, creepy beetles, spiders and snakes weaving in and around McQueen’s Curve Mini, Small Skull bag and Jewelled Flat...

On Tuesday evening in Los Angeles, Alessandro Michele turned Hollywood Boulevard into the runway of his dreams. For his latest show, the Gucci creative director put on a massive fashion extravaganza called Love Parade, presenting over 100 looks to a crowd of 500 all-front-row guests, including Miley Cyrus, Gwyneth Paltrow (who wore her iconic red velvet Gucci suit from 1996,) Dakota Johnson, Lizzo, and Tracee Ellis Ross. He transformed the Walk of Fame—a stretch known for its celebrity impersonators and buskers—into a venue for star power, casting huge searchlights into the sky and lighting up the El Capitan Theatre’s marquee with the words “Gucci Love Parade.” From the stacked cast of surprise models to a guest list that screams Hollywood Hills and,...

Bottega Veneta bag. Saint Laurent by Anthony Vaccarello bag. Chanel boot. Celine by Hedi Slimane bag. Hermès sandal. Fendi bag. Dior bag. Louis Vuitton shoe. Prada bag. Miu Miu boot. Paco Rabanne hood. Burberry bag. Retouching: DTouch London. . . Originally posted from "W Magazine"...

Everyone has a front-row seat to Mugler’s Fall/Winter 2021 runway show. For the second season in a row, the house’s creative director, Casey Cadwallader, opted to ditch the traditional catwalk-based show for a video presentation, one that puts viewers in the middle of the spectacle, and the result is uniquely Mugler. Bella Hadid, Lourdes “Lola” Leon, Amber Valletta, and more models pound down the runway to intense beats in tight-fitting bodysuits, illusion tops, and chain-draped dresses. At times, the models are seen with a white morphsuit posse behind them, mimicking the models movements or showing off their own looks. Other times, those shadow figures catch the models as they suddenly fall, only to be mysteriously lifted back up again. “There was just...

Little is known about the life of Louis Vuitton. The man whose initials have become synonymous with luxury made his living as the French aristocracy’s preferred trunk-maker and packer, after leaving home at 13 years old to master the craft. Beyond that, many of the specifics have been lost to the sands of time. But we do know that he was born on August 4, 1821, at 3 a.m., in Anchay, France, a hamlet in the Jura Valley, which is enough information for Susan Miller, the Internet’s favorite astrologer, to draw up his birth chart: Mr. Vuitton was a Leo, with a Cancer rising and a moon in Libra. “Leos want uniqueness. They want something different. They never want to...