Elsa Schiaparelli
The view from the front row: a history of the fashion show – photo essay
Once, photographers were banned from fashion shows, with designers suspecting they were spies. Today, fashion shows are a multimillion-dollar global business. As London fashion week begins, we cart the evolution of the fashion show, from secret salons to the snap-happy Instagram era
Mitre is right: the Met Ball takes on Catholicism
Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination has been unveiled as the theme to next year’s fashion Oscars in New York
Haute Couture appellation awarded to the Schiaparelli and Julien Fournié Fashion Houses
Schiaparelli luxury fashion maison inducted to fashion’s elite pantheon. The “Commission De Classement Couture Création” of the French “Ministère de l’Industrie”, in its meeting held at the Fédération française de la Couture, awarded the Haute Couture appellation to the Julien Fournié & Schiaparelli Fashion Houses. The two luxury fashion brands joined Chanel, Christian Dior, Franck … Read more
Wonder of the vulgar: Barbican exhibition to delve into garish fashion
Autumn show with clothes by Vivienne Westwood and Jean Paul Gaultier will explore renaissance to present day
Why Botticelli’s Venus is still fashion’s favourite muse
Erotic, youthful, ethereal: the Botticelli beauty who, 500 years on, continues to inspires Lady Gaga, Andy Warhol and Dolce & Gabbana