Dior

Scene-stealing runway sets from the S/S 2019 menswear shows

Behind the set: Kim Jones’ erects a Kaws-designed effigy of M. Dior for his catwalk debut

From the toile de Jouy pattern fabrics which nodded to the wallpaper which lined M. Dior’s first boutique, to the men’s version of its signature John Galliano-designed Saddle bag, artistic director Kim Jones infused his debut menswear collection for Dior with...

Lanvin at Paris Fashion Week Men’s S/S 2019

Mood board: Minimal and sharp, these clothes had a city slickness to them, with no frills or highfalutin proposals on gender. The look was direct and masculine. ‘I wanted to go beyond streetwear, to find a new form of sophistication...

Viktor&Rolf celebrates its 25th anniversary in a new Rotterdam retrospective

‘Viktor&Rolf: Fashion Artists 25 Years’ has opened at the Kunsthal Rotterdam, the second destination of the celebratory retrospective of the Dutch fashion house’s silver anniversary. Viktor Horsting and Rolf Snoeren, who were both born in 1969, started their professional...

Diller Scofidio + Renfro on the divine design of the MET’s ‘Heavenly Bodies’ exhibition

Given its track record for staging fashion spectaculars, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute does not shy away from controversy by any means. Its latest effort, ‘Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination’, which examines the influence of Roman...

A new perfumer is reclaiming the ‘broken’ fragrance industry

A.N. OTHER is the new perfume brand refusing to hit the nail on the nose. It runs behind a very simple concept: to provide the blank canvas for famous perfumers to express – without limits – their creative force...

Set superstar Alexandre de Betak’s Paris apartment interiors go under the hammer

For 30 years French art director, scenographer and designer Alexandre de Betak has pulled off some the fashion world’s most outstanding catwalk shows. Who could forget the 59 ft mountain of blue delphiniums he constructed in the courtyard of the...

Dior’s collage-inspired A/W 2018 show set is a real sticking point

In recent years, Maria Grazia Chiuri has covered Dior’s show set at the Musée Rodin with twinkling shards of mosaic and graphic strips of mirror. For A/W 2018, the artistic director took a more cut-and-paste approach, covering its exterior and...

Block buster: New York architect Peter Marino on delivering the luxury goods

Nobody else on the Place Vendôme looks even remotely like Peter Marino. Standing in front of the square’s landmark column, he is dressed in his habitual head-to-toe black leather, dark shades covering his eyes. Around his neck hang silver blade-like...

Paolo Roversi captures the history of Dior in the folds of a new book

‘I aways say that the designer is the composer of the music and the photographer plays the instrument – or is the interpreter of the piece,’ says Paolo Roversi, in the introduction to Dior Images, a new Rizzoli-published masterpiece...

Best in shows: our standouts of the spring/summer 2018 collections

Photography: Melaine + Ramon. Fashion: Isabelle Kountoure and Jérôme André. Writer: Laura Hawkins

In praise of the extraordinary: our pick of the 2017 high jewellery collections