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Dior's first female artistic director turns a play on words into a movement, and her debut flap bag marries hip-hop attitude, brutalist hardware and Florentine craftsmanship into one quietly desirable piece.
Sitting in his small shop in the buzzing Mar Mikhael neighbourhood of Beirut, Ralph Masri seems awfully humble. It’s a sleek space, mostly black with little window vignettes that showcase his sparkly designs. Even the location is unassuming. Tucked between a trendy restaurant and anothe…
For the woman who cannot decide between a practical day bag and a chic evening clutch, Bottega Veneta's audacious City Knot, introduced with the Spring/Summer 2017 collection, offers the elegance and versatility of both.
From a new Beirut flagship, Lebanese label LaLaQueen unveils its crystal-inspired Geometric collection of handmade leather bags, pairing designer Sally Sarieddine's spiritual ethos with a promise of ethical, sustainable craft.
As Luca Rubinacci tells it, his family’s eponymous menswear label was selling aspirational Italian lifestyle decades before it was a thing. It just so happens that the whole concept is very desirable right now. “Luxury today is all about uniqueness,” says the tailor and style icon who s…
There are so many talented designers coming out of the Middle East these days, fashion design is practically a regional specialty, kind of like what hockey is to Canada or football is to Brazil. As a matter of fact, red carpets all over the world are routinely graced with the sultry gow…
For his second collection at the French house, Anthony Vaccarello showed in its half-built Rue de Bellechasse headquarters, remixing ultra-luxe tailoring with a brute romanticism that signalled a confident new attitude.
The Kooples made fashion history with daring campaigns featuring real-life couples revealing how long they had been together. Last autumn, for the first time since 2008, the French label introduced a striking change to the formula.
You’d be hard pressed to find a truly unique prêt-à-porter piece of clothing these days. Between mass production and an insatiable thirst for the latest trend that pervades our modern world, retail fashion has become a gargantuan cookie-cutter industry. It’s also one of few sectors that…
It’s been nearly two decades since I first met Karl Lagerfeld, and over the years, I have come to realise that the only certainty in any conversation with him is that he’s likely to avoid the obvious, and there will be many diversions along the way. And so it is that when I met him [&he…
Poise Design Creative Director Emma Boutros gives women more than must-have footwear. Balancing a nod to Arab culture with her unrestrained design philosophy, she’s creating shoes that make an unabashed statement. The kaffiya pattern that’s on heavy rotation and has been the brand’s cla…
At twenty, Colorado native Taylor Hill landed an ambassadorship at French beauty giant Lancome, joining a social-media-savvy generation of models, from Bella Hadid at Dior to Kendall Jenner at Estee Lauder, claiming lucrative beauty contracts.