The second day of the Asian Haute Couture Week continued designers from Japan. Defile of the three leading couture houses of the Country of the Rising Sun destroyed my European clichés of Japanese fashion design as something black and white, multilayered-shapeless and too conceptual. Bright and so different from each other collection were only united…
Singapore is often called the “Chinese Monaco.” It is home to the most affluent and accustomed to a high level of comfort members of the society of consumption. Expensive sports cars and luxury boutiques in Singapore are as natural as in its Mediterranean namesake. The difference is only in the scale of the luxury: in…
Our fashion editor Tatiana Stolyarova presents her selection of Spring – Summer trends inspired by pret-a-porter collections of the Paris fashion week SS2013. All photo credits belong to corresponding brands. Man’s suit Woman of the twenty-first century gets closer and closer to a man in her rights and a way of life. That is why at…
Paco Rabanne Spring-Summer 2013 collection, created by the new creative director of the House – Lydia Maurer – became a kind of tribute to a strong and confident woman. Her distinctive features are extravagance and “sex appeal”. Staying in neutral colors (blue, purple, black, gold and silver), the collection combines the rebellious spirit of the…