Hermès Paris Fashion Week 2014

When describing his fall collection for Hermès, Christophe Lemaire kept using the word wild. Which only goes to show you how deeply entrenched in the Hermès culture he is. He defines wild as tone-on-tone printed silk daytime pajamas with a toffee-colored fur coat thrown on top. Others might call it elegant, rich, classic, indulgent, or discreet. But regardless of…

Louis Vuitton Paris Fashion Week 2014

NICOLAS GHESQUIÈRE’S inaugural collection for Louis Vuitton had all the fashion expectation of waking up on Christmas day, excitement brewing ever since black leather wallet invitations had started to arrive in Paris last week. And it’s something that Ghesquière knew too – welcoming us to the show with a typed-up note on each seat that expressed his…

Alexander McQueen Paris Fashion Week 2014

A telling vignette backstage at Alexander McQueen: Sarah Burton was standing there, fielding the crowd, dressed in an antique-white eyelet blouse and black pants. She had a velvet pincushion still strapped to her upper arm—visible proof that this is a hands-on, working designer, intimately involved, down to the very last detail, with everything she puts on a runway….