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Sacai S/S 2019 Paris Fashion Week Women’s

Mood Board: Sartorial hybridation has been Chitose Abe’s raison d’être ever since she founded Sacai back in 1999. In the past 19 years, the Japanese designer has consistently explored the myriad ways in which two garments can be assembled to create a...

Blurred lines: there are no boundaries for girls who are boys who like boys to be girls

Italian artist (and longtime Wallpaper* collaborator) Brigitte Niedermair’s latest exhibition ‘Eccehomo’, showcases photographic works of Europe’s oldest known natural human mummy Ötzi (or the ‘Ice Man’), in Castel Tirolo in Italy. In celebration of the show’s opening, here we present...

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

Sacai A/W 2018

Scene setting: The Sacai fashion show at number 11, rue Béranger took place in what appeared to be an abandoned six-storey car park in the middle of Le Marais, but this 1970s-designed building used to be the headquarters of Libération, one of France’s...

Prime numbers: 41 Alaïa masterpieces go on display at the couturier’s Paris headquarters

‘I got fired over that dress!’ says Carla Sozzani, pointing at a sculpted strapless black gown from Azzedine Alaïa’s 1988 collection. Sozzani and Alaïa’s partner, the artist Christophe von Weyhe (both founders of the Association Azzedine Alaïa), opened an exquisite show...

Sacai A/W 2018

Mood board: The back of a sweatshirt in Chitose Abe’s A/W18 collection came with a warning. Printed onto it was the rousing declaration published in The New York Times on 26 Feb 2017: ‘Truth is more important now than ever...

Sacai S/S 2018

Mood board: Chitose Abe’s style is to re-code the familiar. For her S/S 2018 Sacai collection – staged in a pastel, stepped wing of Christian de Portzamparc’s Cité de la Musique – she unpacked how the wearer attaches his own...

Chitose Abe brings her hybrid aesthetic to military silhouettes and ski-focused outerwear

Mood board: For A/W 2017, Chitose Abe was preoccupied with the archetypal pieces of a woman’s wardrobe. Renowned for her hybrid take on design, combining silhouettes into new and distinctive forms, the designer reworked these traditional shapes spanning day to...

Sacai A/W 2017

Mood board: Since launching in 2009, Sacai’s men’s line has established its signature style. Designer Chitose Abe is an alumna of Rei Kawakubo and Junya Watanabe, and their influence is clearly signposted in her work. What Abe does, however, is tailor...

Sacai S/S 2017

Mood board: A lot always happens on a Sacai runway but Spring was particularly packed with choice options for the woman who loves to hybrid dress. Things began with a tribal motif and ended on a Jimi Hendrix Black Panther...

Rounding up the top show venues for the men’s S/S 2017 season

Paris Fashion Week S/S 2017 menswear editor’s picks