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Fashion week underlined the need for brands to stoke the appetites of young, first-time luxury buyers in Asia
As social restrictions are set to lift, a premium is being put on clothes that combine comfort and luxury and bring joy
The autumn/winter 2021 collections offer a preview of post-pandemic dressing as designers warn that British brands are at risk of going under
A sense of optimism pervaded the autumn/winter 2021 collections, despite a curtailed schedule
At another all-digital couture week, designers offered competing visions for high dressmaking as Kim Jones made his debut at Fendi
Kim Jones says his Dior collection is ‘about ceremony in the everyday’, as Louis Vuitton, Loewe and more move beyond sweatshirts and sweatpants
While looser fittings and comfortable fabrics abound, designers have an eye on a more outgoing future
On the final days of Paris Fashion Week, brands from Givenchy to Hermès grappled with differing demands from global clients
Digital catwalks are just ‘not the same for our customers’, says Chanel fashion president Bruno Pavlovsky
Meanwhile, ‘eco-futurist’ Marine Serre wows with a short film at hybrid Fashion Week
LVMH is out in force with an elaborately staged Dior show, as under half the fashion houses opt for live events
The Italian-Haitian designer mixes activism and an arresting aesthetic
Fewer live events meant more attention for the designers who showed their clothes on the catwalk
Our guide to the best of the new season’s collections
Pragmatism prevailed, with designers under pressure to guess global consumers’ new needs
The designer presents her last solo women’s collection for the house her grandparents founded
A mostly digital week was enlivened by some live shows — and new ways of designing
The British luxury brand live-streamed an outdoor show that responded to the pandemic with performance art
With Covid-19 infections rising, design houses brace for an unpredictable show season
How to wear this season’s boldest accessory
Artist Makoto Azuma and designer Kei Ninomiya describe their showstopping floral collaborations
As the designer launches MTO Donna for women, he reflects on his impact on the world’s working wardrobe
Business leggings, WFH pants, leather corsets – the pre-collections have offered us a taste of trends to come
From hotel courtyards to a bucolic wheat field, a photogenic backdrop proved too tempting for several menswear brands
Familiarity breeds not contempt, but contentment, in these straitened times
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