Raffaello Napoleone, CEO of Pitti Immagine, talked to FashioNetwork about Pitti Bimbo, underlining how, with 60% of exhibitors from outside Italy, it is becoming increasingly international.
One hesitates to consider the budget for flights this season for the Kenzo runway show, seeing as the half the cast of some 80 all-Asian models, were flown in from the east especially for this men’s and women’s show.
The return to Paris of the house of Alexander McQueen to present its menswear collection after a break of several years was a major victory for the runway season here.
“We had three models cancel on me and I thought the millennial generation was the one open to everything,” marveled Thom Browne after an epic menswear show, where every man walked in high heels.
His shopping habits, private archives, old record collections and trips to fish markets were some of the inspirations for Sir Paul Smith’s latest collection, and that turned out to be a very good thing.
Classical workwear met classy tailoring in a memorable show by Lucas Ossjendrijver for the house of Lanvin, as the designer mixed, zapped and fused different types of garments.
Loops, stencils and stitching all combined in a hyper graphic collection from Hermès – as the house revelled in its signature DNA for men – insouciant elegance.
There are few hotter designers in the world today than Olivier Rousteing, whose latest show for Balmain was a tour de force of rock-n-roll men’s couture.
Kris Van Assche celebrated his 10th anniversary as creative director of Dior Homme with a highly commercial yet always cool collection that trumpeted his own menswear atelier in Paris.
Subtle, sleek, slick summer style with a sporty twist at Berluti, in a brilliantly staged show before a high-powered audience and the heirs to luxury’s greatest fortune.
