Fashion
Episodes
Spring-summer 2026 ready-to-wear: Free, independent and proud
17 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This special report zooms in on the smaller fashion houses that sparkled during Paris Fashion Week. Vincent Pressiat, like Victor Weinsanto, looked to...
Haute Couture seeks to save the planet, with Iris van Herpen leading the charge
29 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Raising awareness about the fragility of our oceans, our land and our Indigenous heritage is the challenge facing a new generation of couturiers. For ...
Men's fashion for spring-summer 2026? It's political!
18 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Whether it involves making space for the trans community, raising awareness about conflicts in Ukraine and Palestine, expressing their distrust of con...
Ready-to-wear, fall-winter 2025: The art of always being right
09 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To create a fashion collection, you need three key elements: silhouette, colour, material – be it for clothes or accessories. Yet these ingredients...
Togo's international fashion festival fights for a world without cancer
18 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Togo's International Fashion Festival has chosen a topical theme for its twelfth edition: the fight against cancer. The issue may not appear glamorous...
Ready-to-wear, autumn-winter 2025: Creativity and disruption
21 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The collective show from the international students of the Institut Français de la Mode kicks off the autumn-winter 2025/26 presentations and asks c...
Haute couture collections, summer 2025: Playful modernisation
28 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What do designers Olivier Saillard, Kevin Germanier, Stéphane Rolland, Khol by Hamza Guelmouss and Valentin Nicot as well as Julien Fournié all have...
Menswear collections, winter 2025: Strong messages and a poetic feel
21 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Designers Jeanne Friot, Walter Van Beirendonck and Louis Gabriel Nouchi have taken a stand to defend gender-neutral fashion, calling for inclusion rat...
Haute Couture collections, summer 2025: Antidotes to tense times
07 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 2025's uncertain climate and amid international crises, luxury industries are questioning their model: how to meet ever more ambitious financial ta...
Menswear & couture collections 2024/25: New inclusive communication strategies
25 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Luxury fashion is big business. To stay relevant, big luxury houses and independent labels alike know to constantly refresh their communication strate...
Ready-to-wear, summer 2025: Paris, the ideal stage for Asian and African designers
15 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
At more than 80 years old, Yohji Yamamoto still enjoys reassembling fabric like a child. At Issey Miyake, Satoshi Kondo offers a collection inspired b...
Summer 2025 ready-to-wear collections: An invigorated avant garde
25 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Fashion's avant garde is at its most creative when it looks to the outside world for inspiration. For next summer's ready-to wear-looks, Victor Weinsa...
Ready-to-wear collections, summer 2025: The new Amazons
04 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A celebration of the body, dance, art and sport! At Dior, Maria Grazia Chiuri installs Italian archer-artist Sagg Napoli in a long glass cage. Her col...
Ready-to-wear, autumn-winter 2024/25: Art or not?
06 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
At the Rodin Museum Dior presents its latest collection against a décor comprised of mosaics by the New York-based feminist artist Faith Ringgold. At...
Ready-to-wear, autumn-winter 2024/25: Can fashion transform reality?
03 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Can fashion transform reality, or is it more a question of how the real world influences fashion? Dior's response lies in a deeply feminist collection...
Ready-to-wear, autumn-winter 2024/25: Freedom of thinking and being
05 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
At the campus of the French Fashion Institute, 27 design students from 13 different countries are gearing up to present their year's work before a hig...
Ready-to-wear, autumn-winter 2024/25: Time to fight for change
15 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Stella McCartney, Marine Serre and Lilia Litkovska are three designers united in their belief that fashion, a notoriously polluting industry that oft...
Inside the minds of Yohji Yamamoto, Jeanne Friot, Stéphane Rolland and Julien Fournié
08 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What exactly goes on in designers’ heads? Wim Wenders claims that Yohji Yamamoto has the power to heal people without the need for a therapist’s c...
Haute couture, spring-summer 2024: A pillar of French soft power
02 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Haute couture represents the apotheosis of fashion. Thousands of hours of work can go into a single item, destined to be worn just once. Couture offer...
Ready-to-wear, spring-summer 2024: Four women designers at the top of their game
22 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Stella McCartney, Laurence Airline, Vaillant Studio and Litkovska are four fashion labels founded and run by women. Inspired by a desire to always str...
Ready-to-wear, spring-summer 2024: Japanese masters of fashion
08 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Japanese stylists have been making their mark on the Paris fashion scene since the 1980s, and continue to prove their mastery of the art of merging fo...
Is Africa the world's next global fashion hub?
24 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Togo's International Fashion Festival (FIMO), which recently celebrated its tenth anniversary in Lomé, has organised a catwalk show in Paris to promo...
Ready-to-wear, spring/summer 2024: Three young designers capture the zeitgeist
10 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this edition we meet three up-and-coming fashion designers. Victor Weinsanto studied fashion in Paris before going on to work with Jean-Paul Gaulti...
Opera performance celebrates 100 years of France's iconic Villa Noailles
27 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"Ressusciter la rose" (Revive the rose) is an original musical tribute, a marriage of fashion, music and design, to celebrate the centenary of the Vil...