Saint Laurent

Saint Laurent stages twinkling S/S 2019 menswear show on New York’s Liberty Island

In the upper echelons of conservative, haute couture-wearing circles in Paris in the early Seventies, New York City was viewed as a mecca of glamour, disco and decadence. Nightclubs, like Max’s Kansas City on Park Avenue South, pulsed to vibrant...

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...

Scene-stealing runway sets from the A/W 2018 womenswear shows

Saint Laurent A/W 2018

Scene setting: On a sub-zero night in Paris, guests piled into a cavernous showspace next to the Fontaine du Trocadéro, a vast hangar illuminated on the inside and outside by row upon row of spotlights (providing warmth for freezing fashion editors)...

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

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

Shape shifting: making moves with photographer Roos Quakernaat

Roos Quakernaat caught our eye at the latest Hyères Festival of Fashion and Photography. So we did the patronly thing and tasked her with artfully tangling new Dutch design and this season’s key looks, as she explains here in her...

Fan mail: the greatest S/S 2018 fashion week invitations

Military detail: our platoon of swashbuckling young guns stand to attention

Solid foundations: the Yves Saint Laurent museum opens in Marrakech

Wrapped with terracotta brick and earthen-coloured terrazzo, the new and much-anticipated Yves Saint Laurent museum in Marrakech melds effortlessly into its ochre surrounds. Its understated façade, with its blend of swooping curves and straight lines, is a fitting tribute to the...

Gold and other offerings: how Yves Saint Laurent reinvented the humble accessory

‘I like dresses to be sober and accessories to be wild,’ Yves Saint Laurent told Elle in 1977. Now, a new Phaidon-published tome, Yves Saint Laurent Accessories, by Patrick Mauriès – author of Jewellery by Chanel (2012) and Maison...

Saint Laurent S/S 2018

Scene setting: In the sixties and seventies, Yves Saint Laurent became synonymous with Left Bank chic. The maison’s mark on fashion history – one which democratised ready-to-wear and revolutionised the fashion scene with safari suits, art-inspired dresses and Le Smoking, gained...

A monumental Dior retrospective opens at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris

‘Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams’ at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, is nothing shy of monumental. Spanning nearly 3,000 sq m of prime space, it first unfolds as a rich, thematic journey throughout the two floors of permanent fashion...