Haider Ackermann
Designer: Haider Ackermann

• “After several seasons of dazzling us with his artistic vision and total look, Ackermann got down to the business of creating pieces that can be more easily integrated into a woman’s wardrobe, namely beautiful outerwear, jackets and pants.” [All The Rage/Los Angeles Times]
• “The tricksily-ornamented jacquard suits were, as ever, impressive and elegant.” [The Daily Telegraph]
• “The languid and sometimes lethargic speed of Haider Ackermann’s shows in recent seasons, suddenly had a newfound urgency yesterday.” [Dazed Digital]
• “Yes, there was all the drama, romance and strength one would normally associate with Haider Ackermann, but he seemed to have made a concerted effort to strip back and simplify his designs–less of the binding of waists and the jackets with flaring hip panels and more of the straight and narrow.” [ELLEuk.com]
• “Knowing that said Monroe song was part of her rather sinister film Niagara, in which the bombshell played a deadly seductress out to drown her husband in the Niagara Falls, the many-sidedness to Ackermann’s autumn/winter 13 woman became all the more enthralling.” [i-D Online]
• “It was all about the two F’s of womenswear for Haider Ackermann this season–force and fragility. The designer brought those two diametrically opposite ideas together in one fantastic fall/winter 2013 show.” [NOWFASHION]
• “The collection looked less pretentious in attitude than previous seasons, but still full of smoke.” [On The Runway/The New York Times]
• “Tough, powerful, and sublimely elegant.” [POPSUGAR Fashion]
• “Fragility and strength–fashion loves to throw those two in the same pit to see what happens and in the trusted hands of Ackermann strength won but barely so.” [SHOWSTUDIO]
• “From a designer famous for straps spilling off shoulders, twisting seams, and trailing hems, the smoky gray panne velvet column gown here was notable for its spare simplicity.” [Style.com]
• “A bias-cut slither of gray velvet, baring one shoulder and looped around the neck to finish in a scarf tie was the sole grand evening statement and reminded us of the softer side of this protean talent.” [Vogue.com]
• “There’s something so pure and beautiful about what French designer Haider Ackermann (the man once heavily rumoured to succeed Galliano at Dior), does. And today’s collection was a wholly new, fresh and beautiful take on that.” [Vogue.com UK]
• “He’s got guts.” [WWD]