Under a ceiling of 'electric flowering' designed to echo urban lights, artistic director Raf Simons opened his show, devoted to 'city silhouettes', with a procession of masculine tailoring and power-wielding coats, cropped at the elbow as though pushed up and ready for business. This season even Simons' heels were on the go, morphing a training shoe into an ankle-strapped platform, complete with a fluorescent sports stripe. Ushering in the new workforce were sleek, peaked lapel pantsuits in maroon, bottle green and black, with each Dior employee carrying a hyper-hued coat over her forearm. Although it was soon time to dial in the flou: originating from men's business shirts, dresses came fluted, rather than ruffled, with swinging asymmetrical hemlines. Moving into cocktail hour, electric-hued, scoop front evening looks used 1990s-style side splits to dramatic effect when paired with floral embroidery. Then came the designer's brogue lacings that stitched up form-fitting dresses and coats in the place of corsetry, followed by elegant quilted duvet dresses for the work-weary, seductively cropped in the front. Dior's dream sequence, described by the tour de force designer as 'an idea of the romantic and the real, a world of possibilities', restfully finished with sheer embroidered columns, worn over homely tees.
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JW Anderson and Pleasing design a balloon-inspired collection of nail polishes and moreJW Anderson and Pleasing launch an uplifting new capsule collection featuring balloon-inspired metallic nail polishes and a take on the viral rainbow cardigan
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Bottega Veneta drafts Venetian artisans for its unique ‘Bottega for Bottegas’ project, a gift list of local craftItalian fashion house Bottega Veneta has sought out six craftspeople from in and around Venice to create precious objects – from playing cards to jigsaw puzzles – which arrive just in time for festive gift-giving
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Agnès Varda, Luca Guadagnino and Wim Wenders: why Aesop’s love affair with cinema is more than skin-deepAesop’s new 2024 Christmas campaign celebrates its long love affair with cinema. Laura Havlin speaks with the brand’s head of global store design Marianne Lardilleux to discover why film is inherent to its DNA
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Summer games, from pétanque to pool floats, get a fashionable spinFrom a luxurious pétanque set to pool floats and playing cards, summer games and toys from the world’s best-known fashion houses
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‘Modern beauty’: Pieter Mulier on his new vision for AlaïaAs creative director of Alaïa, Belgian designer Pieter Mulier honours the timeless vision of the maison’s founder while rewriting the past anew. Here, speaking to Jack Moss, he tells the story behind his first year at the house
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Palace unites with Rapha to celebrate inaugural Tour de France FemmesMarking the first time women will compete in the historic cycling race since the late 1980s, this new collaboration sees Palace Skateboards and Rapha create uniforms for both on and off the bike – including an ‘outlandish’ pair of Crocs
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NYC fashion exhibitions to see right nowNew York City fashion exhibitions to add to your cultural calendar, as style stages a stunning takeover at The Met and more
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Mariella Bettineschi’s feminist artworks survey guests at Dior A/W 2022 showAs guests gathered at Dior’s A/W 2022 womenswear show venue in Paris, sets of duplicated eyes stared down at them from the artworks of Mariella Bettineschi
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Paris Fashion Week A/W 2022: Chanel to Miu MiuIn this extended report, Wallpaper* updates you live from Paris Fashion Week A/W 2022 shows, with rolling coverage as runway events unfold
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Scene-stealing runway sets from A/W 2022 menswear showsA Kubrickian space odyssey at Prada; a recreation of the Pont Alexandre III in Paris at Dior; and colourful, artist-created flags at Loewe: explore the best runway sets from the A/W 2022 menswear shows
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Dior recreates Paris bridge, Pont Alexandre III, for A/W 2022 showDior recreated Paris’ landmark bridge, Pont Alexandre III, for its A/W 2022 menswear show, which took place on 21 January 2022, the date of Christian Dior’s birthday
