Sunday was a good day to be a British girl in Paris–or an Italian guy with eight sisters. Critics concurred that Celine, Chloé, and Givenchy offered a triumverate of strong visions of empowered femininity.
The coats. It was all about the coats.
For Fall 2013, Chloé’s Clare Waight Keller channeled a school girl in the most rebellious sense. In her show notes, the list of inspirations read “night buses, independent spirit, bare legs, dorm rooms…tough girls,” and so on. The references were fairly literal: Duffle coats, a red and black pinafore and plenty of white-collar shirts.
This girl was most certainly taking utility dressing into her own hands—a good thing, obviously. But the coats… the coats were on another level.
There’s something special—something truly appealing—about Chloé’s new SoHo outpost at 93 Greene Street. It’s Manhattan’s second Chloé store, but the first to be designed under the watch of creative director Clare Waight Keller. (The Madison Avenue location will be remodeled in the fall to better reflect her tastes.)
What makes this spot so intriguing? Well, unlike most boutiques—cool or not—it’s the kind of place you want to live in, not just visit.
Pre-Fall 2013 has wrapped!…or has it?…Nobody can quite say for sure, but with the Fall 2013 shows quickly approaching in mid-February, we figured now was as good a time as any to take inventory of our favorites from “the season between seasons.”
Stella McCartney’s double-win at last night’s British Fashion Awards, where she was awarded both Designer of the Year and the Designer Brand of the Year, capped off a year of non-stop success for her eponymous label.
Success that probably made McCartney’s former boss at Chloé eat his words. According to McCartney, he was pretty positive she, being a woman and all, wouldn’t make it on her own.
We rounded up the 25 best dressed from all the fashion weeks. You’re welcome.
Click through to see what trends heated up this season–and start planning your spring wardrobe accordingly.
After all the hype surrounding Raf Simons’ and Hedi Slimane’s debuts for Dior and Saint Laurent respectively, and all the backlash and name-calling following Hedi Slimane’s Saint Laurent show, it’s easy to forget there were some really lovely collections shown this week. Click through for a little reminder, plus our picks for the 10 best collections from the week.
These designers all prove that ruffles don’t necessarily have to be over-the-top.
Clare Waight Keller has really hit her stride at Chloé.
This weekend in Paris, Chloe celebrated its 60th birthday with the opening of a retrospective exhibit called Chloé.ATTITUDES at the Palais de Tokyo.
Having only a sense of what Chloe looks like under the creative direction of ’70s-leaning minimalist cool girls–from Stella McCartney to to Phoebe Philo to Hannah MacGibbon to Clare Waight Keller–I was surprised to see how whimsical and how much of a sense of humor the label had under earlier designers like Karl Lagerfeld and Maxime de La Falaise. A white v-neck bathing suit with a pineapple on the crotch? Why not?
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