Versace

Silk route: foulard’s complex pattern systems mirror intricate high jewellery design

Scene-stealing runway sets of S/S 2019 womenswear

Versace S/S 2019 Milan Fashion Week Women’s

Scene setting: In recent seasons Donatella Versace has favoured intimate runway shows, but for S/S 2019 she upped up the ante with an enormous showspace inside Milan’s Palazzo delle scintille. Guests for the evening-time show opened up a rubber-wristband-come-invitation emblazoned...

Versace S/S 2019 Milan Fashion Week Men’s

Mood board: There’s a knowing chutzpah to Donatella Versace. In everything she does, from her tongue-in-cheek postings on social media with her Jack Russell, Audrey, to her peppy catwalk shows with their glitz, sex and gloss, she is marching the house...

Course of nature: V&A dissects fashion’s relationship with the living world

Four years ago, when curator Edwina Ehrman started thinking about the Victoria & Albert Museum’s latest exhibition, ‘Fashioned From Nature’, she envisaged exploring how fashion designers had been inspired by the natural world over time – how, for example, they...

Versace A/W 2018

Mood board: it would be a daunting proposition planning a catwalk show after the runway spectacle of last season’s S/S 2018 Versace show – easily the most talked-about and Instagrammed show of fashion week, packed with supermodels old and new, lashings...

Santoni’s Marco Zanini on plotting a small revolution at Piero Portaluppi’s home in Milan

‘The smallest things are always the most precious,’ says Marco Zanini. He is used to thinking big, engineering a string of successful brand relaunches, but in late 2016, Zanini downsized to design for artisanal shoemaker Santoni. On a sunless...

Milan Fashion Week A/W 2018 menswear editor’s picks

In its first foray into fashion in 73 years, MoMA honours world-changing wardrobe

In 1944, the Museum of Modern Art in New York staged its first fashion exhibition, ‘Are Clothes Modern?’. Put together by architect and curator Bernard Rudofsky, the show explored attitudes towards clothes at a time when soon-to-be-outmoded traditions still...

Versace S/S 2018

Mood board: It’s been 20 years since the death of Gianni Versace, who was murdered outside his Miami Beach home at the age of 50. Donatella Versace’s collection – one that has dominated Instagram feeds – was a tribute to...

Versace S/S 2018

Mood board: The mood at Versace was ... pure Versace. It has been 20 years since Gianni Versace’s death, and his sister Donatella chose to revisit some of the house’s earlier statements. Reflecting on the history of the house, S/S 2018...

Fashion brands leave their sartorial mark on Salone del Mobile 2017