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Lebanon's Elie Saab and the UAE's DAS Collection have conquered international fashion, but only one shoe designer claims this region as home. We meet Camilla Skovgaard, a footwear talent breaking the mould.
The world may credit Coco Chanel with changing the face of fashion and introducing us to the little black dress, the pea jacket and trousers for women but she also played an integral role in transforming our appreciation of jewellery. The opening salvo of Coco Chanel’s war on jewellery …
Chopard may not have changed their name when they switched family ownership but a lot did change when artistic director and co-president, Caroline Scheufele set up her haute jewellery collections, expanding the company’s reach from ladies’ watches to eco-jewellery. Everything about Caro…
During a visit to Tod's Brancadoro factory in the Italian village of Casette d'Ete, we discover how the shoemaker persuaded the world that leather shoes with gommino soles were chic, in a building more gallery than factory.
Kiton's Manhattan flagship is a marble fortress, its altars awash with pastel confections of luxury. Ties lie scattered on richly tinted tables and mannequins flank the staircase; it is a clothing store, yet feels like so much more.
The department-store pilgrimage for spring/summer collections is over. From Burberry's reimagined Regent Street flagship to inventive campaigns, fashion houses are dissolving the boundary between reality and technology to enter the twenty-first century.
Half-Kuwaiti, half-Indian and at home across three continents, Tahir Sultan brings an architect's training to a fashion career. Govind Dhar meets a rising designer in his New Delhi home, marked for success and household fame.
Bodies betray us in countless small ways, from uneven shoulders to a tilted pelvis. Warren Singh-Bartlett explains why Apsley, which tailors a bespoke suit in three affordable weeks, has earned our Ultimate Tailor award.
Fashion and architecture have long expressed the personal, social and cultural. Lately, both have moved beyond status towards complex questions of identity, as computer-aided design carries ever more intricate surfaces and unusual forms from the drawing board.
With a mischievous glint, rolled-up jeans and yellow suede shoes, Sarkis Dersahagian declares fashion irresistibly theatrical. He never imagined another life, and his playful conviction lights up our conversation about creativity, instinct and self-expression.
The Lanvin man, created by Alber Elbaz and matured by Lucas Ossendrijver, swings between opposites: boxy then slim, structured then deconstructed. It is about the productive tension, they say, between the traditional and the futuristic.
In art, as in fashion, one must learn the rules before breaking them. That is precisely what master tailor Nazareno Fonticoli did in 1945, founding Brioni and fusing relaxed Mediterranean silhouettes with peerless Savile Row technique.