This season Moncler Gamme Rouge took a different tack creatively, starting with its show set, which was stripped of its former life-sized ski chair lifts and James Bond-esque action heroes. Like the more reserved set, the clothes also looked different. Giambattista Valli normally brings his couture-like techniques and elaborate constructions to this Milan-based outerwear brand, but this season, he eschewed almost all of the highbrow gloss and instead looked to the street. The outerwear silhouettes were boxy but basic, deflated from their normally voluminous shapes as if pricked by a pin. Lycra leggings, flat slip-on rubber-soled shoes and sweatshirt dresses and jackets gave the looks a decisively sporty air. And although Valli dabbled in rich astrakhan, leather and fox panelling, many of the coats were trimmed in dashed block lines, typically reserved for the street pavement. The overall effect was one of practicality. In fact, the runway at Moncler Gamme Rouge all of a sudden started to look a lot like the real-way. Of course, there were still several items to lose one's head in, like the two-piece camouflage sweat suits crusted entirely in sparkling micro paillettes, or the sweatshirt dress crusted in silver nail-like studding.
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Wallpaper* checks in at MACAM Hotel: a night at the museumPortugal’s first hotel-museum is home to 600 pieces of modern and contemporary art and 64 rooms for the ultimate artistic immersion
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This joyful Henri Matisse pottery collection is your new summer entertaining essentialAfter years at the helm of American ceramics company East Fork, the artist’s great-grandson is ready to embrace his family name
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This knitwear collaboration is a playful exploration of the role of the fashion criticWaste Yarn Project has collaborated with Wallpaper* contributing editor Dal Chodha on a sweater adorned with extracts from his 2020 book ‘Show Notes’, collated while reviewing the menswear shows for Wallpaper*
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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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Inside JW Anderson’s dreamy, colour-soaked collaboration with MonclerMade to ‘entertain the eye’, Jonathan Anderson’s third collaboration with Moncler is a dreamlike outing defined by the designer’s deft use of colour
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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 S/S 2022 womenswear showsFrom giant roulette wheels to Olympic diving boards and multi-city synchronized extravaganzas – our pick of the best fashion show sets from S/S 2022 womenswear
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