How can anyone think about a dress when a virus is spreading and people are being quarantined around the world, trading all manner of freedoms for loafing around in pajamas instead? “The hardest part is to keep calm in the eye of the storm,” said Marine Serre, a designer who has found boundless inspiration in the darkness of this world, backstage at her fall 2020 show.
“Aggressive”, “testosterone-fuelled”, “intimidating” – all have been deployed to describe the atmosphere on the trading floor at the world’s major banks. For Vanessa Barboni Hallik, who spent 15 years at Morgan Stanley, however, the experience was “fabulous”.
Back at the Palais de Tokyo, Rick Owens hopped off his specially designed Moncler bus to debut his latest collection in the midst of PFW’s ongoing chaos. Unable to make the show? Here’s what you missed.
“Everyone is obsessed with ‘storytelling’, and, I must say, I’m really bad at that,” Chloé’s creative director Natacha Ramsay-Levi tells Vogue, her apathy for modern-day marketing speak collapsing into self-deprecating laughter.
Is Rianne Van Rompaey the most fun and most fab model in the world? We think so. Well, we can’t think of anyone better, to be honest. She’s a beguiling mix of delicate beauty and fantastic joy.
There were a lot of ideas floating around in the 100 or so looks that Riccardo Tisci sent down the mirrored disco ball catwalk, centred around two grand pianos with Arca overseeing musical proceedings.