A Video Interview with the Fashion Designer Jean Paul Gaultier

Here is a video I produced of my colleague Suzy Menkes interviewing Jean Paul Gaultier. And I have to say I am pretty proud of how it turned out. Right now Gaultier might just be the busiest man in fashion. Having just launched a retrospective exhibition in Montreal Canada, produced a inventive menswear show and [...]

Review of the Franck Sorbier haute couture collection

Franck Sorbier actually did take the fashion world to a circus. The Cirque d’Hiver was the venue for the story of a sleeping beauty (in the form of the French pop singer Shy’m) who dreamed of woodland nymphs and gnomes. This rather repetitive collection of autumnal shaded ensembles, crafted mostly out of compressed and handpainted [...]

Review of the Worth haute couture collection

The designer Giovanni Bedin had a bit of a surprise in store at his Worth presentation: He finally added some long skirts to his usual mico-mini corseted creations. This season Mr. Bedin also decided to emphasize a corset’s underpinnings, transforming the boning structure into elaborate lace-up belts. “I let myself go and exaggerate the concepts [...]

Review of the Maxime Simoens haute couture show

Maxime Simone dubbed his fall/winter show “Nosferatu” but thankfully the only fangs alluded to on the runway came in the form of graphic color block dresses that saw bold patterns and embellishments honed down to points. The 27 year old designer created a textural collection that used swinging beaded fringe, feather puff sleeves, pointed metal [...]

Review of the Elie Saab haute couture show

For Elie Saab , the choice of a show’s inspiration — be it fairy tales, artists or this season’s starting point, skyscrapers — is just a pretext for the designer to once again do what he does best: make feminine frocks that shimmer and sparkle. The hours it must have taken to embellish every tulle, [...]