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You could say Yves Saint Laurent started it all in the 1960s with his Le Smoking but Racil, an elegantly honed London-based label launched last year by Lebanese fashion designer, Racil Chalhoub, takes the rebellious female tuxedo as a starting point, and then reinterprets it with a char…
Designer Bin Drai channels her dual cultural heritage into a spring/summer collection of evening gowns, drawing on the monochromatic beauty of the winter desert and the sweeping silhouettes of its dunes.
It has been an eventful year for Dior's Belgian designers. Suzy Menkes hailed Raf Simons and Kris Van Assche as a Belgian conquest of a French house, only for Simons to resign after three and a half years.
Living in the limelight is never easy, yet Kuwaiti fashion-blogging couple Ascia Al-Faraj and Ahmad Al Bloushi, known as the Hybrids, take it in their stride. Daring to look different, they have become social-media style icons.
Synonymous with discreet Italian luxury, Bottega Veneta shuns logos for its signature intrecciato weave. Opulent yet rigorous, sumptuous yet sober, the technique runs through its leather goods, ready-to-wear and an ever-expanding home line begun almost by accident in 2006.
Provocative film roles notwithstanding, actress Stacy Martin is the pretty face of Miu Miu's eagerly awaited debut perfume. Shot with a black-and-white cat named Truman and the powder-blue quilted bottle, she lends the scene gentle intrigue.
Balmain’s latest men’s collection is both chic and decidedly sexy, a kind of hip-hop street culture meets high-society sophistication. And, it pulls it all off. With its thoughtful masculine look, it mixes up different styles without losing any of the brand’s signature refinement or att…
Designer entrepreneur Jeffrey Rüdes has a stellar track record you may not know, though you will know J Brand. He launched it in 2004, having watched jeans evolve from modest staples into something altogether more elevated.
Replaying her recorded midsummer visit to Ralph & Russo in London, our writer cringes at her own gushing exclamations. Yet the couture house's exquisite silhouettes, she admits, fully warranted every breathless oh là là and oh, wow.
A one-off high-jewellery watch that channels the swirl of a couture ball gown, the Envol pairs scarab-wing marquetry and tsavorite garnets with the inverted Dior Inversé movement.
Hermès ventures well beyond leather and shawls, partnering with French framebuilder Time on the elegant, understated Le Flâneur. Far more than a fashion statement, this carbon-fibre machine is engineered to be ridden.
For Dior's autumn/winter 2015-16 haute couture show, Raf Simons conjured a garden of innocence and decadence, filtering simplicity and luxury through the eyes of Flemish and French masters of art and craft.