Last season, one couldn’t squeeze into a show without being knocked around by a pair of expensive shoulders. Though the Balmain or Margiela or any shoulder interpretation of the two have stuck around here and there, SS10′s featured a healthy crop of anti-shoulders so far. Designers ranging from Richard Nicoll to the team at Topshop, Read more →
Julien MacDonald used to be known at the UK’s answer to Bob Mackie – Naomi Cambpell or Geri Halliwell could be depended on to open and and close his shows with furs, feathers and sequins – which meant we were surprised when Jamey Hargreaves, one of the Matalan chiefs (think the U.K Target) handpicked MacDonald Read more →
Those Balmain shoulders, the sharp eighties silhouette Christophe Decarnin so successfully reinvented last season, popped up on almost every runway, from Behnaz to Topshop, from Herve to Pringle. But a few designers weren’t satisfied with mere shoulder pads and actually ballooned their silks into real life leg-of-mutton sleeves. Roksanda Ilincic‘s silver, almost angular sleeves added Read more →
