With a runway centered around a squared ring with corseted women going at it in it’s middle, the theme for Jean Paul Gaultier this season was considerably easier to debunk, comparing to the denim corsets that took a while to digest in back in Spring 2010. Weaving the tail of a bruised and battered fighter [...]

Back in October, when Portuguese designer Felipe Oliveira Baptista showcased a Spring 2010 collection playing with the lighting bolt detailing and fine intricate draping of his Fall 2009 Couture collection, I instantly fell in love. So much so that you can easily say that his Fall 2010 showing was one of my most anticipated of [...]

As models walked the runway carrying miniature radios, Belgian designer Dries Van Noten steps away from the some of the dazing prints featured heavily in some of his more recent works. Instead, focusing more on stripes and trim lines. With everything from Snoop Dogg’s ‘Drop It Like It’s Hot’ to The Yeah Yeah Yeah’s ‘Heads [...]

Last season, Paul Helbers sought out inspiration from New York City, particularly bike messengers, for his collection as designer of the Louis Vuitton menswear label. A season later, we are now off to Vienna. Inspired by Vienna and it’s artists from the start of the 20th century, a marriage of two extremes are seen through [...]

Targeting a younger clientele, designer Youn Chong Bak fuses the traditional Smalto man with a man more rough around the edges. Yet, still manages to maintain the ‘timelessness-luxe’ sense of appeal that we have all come to expect from the house. In stark contrast from the Smalto man that we saw back in Fall 2008, [...]