Young and fearless – Olivier Rousteing knows how to stage a good show. Ever since he took the reins of Balmain in 2011, when he was barely 25-years-old, Rousteing has had a sky-rocketing career, so much so that he became a celebrity on his own, having Balmain hungry teenagers lining up for hours in order to get their hands on his now infamous collection for H&M – and going completely nuts while...

Riccardo Tisci is a trouble-maker. Since his appointment at the creative helm of Givenchy in 2005, Tisci has been turning the codes and standards of the French heritage house upside down, making Givenchy his own with his culturally loaded women's and men's ready-to-wear collections.     But Couture is also important in Tisci's world, and the sophisticated yet edgy numbers that he...

Day 2 of the Paris Fall/Winter 2016 menswear season was all about staging a good show – quite literally.     “Dries Van Noten's Night at the Opera” Dries Van Noten, who is the master of contemporary subtleness and sensuality when it comes to both men's and women's wear, invited his guests to join his models on stage for a night at the Opera Garnier in Paris. “It was really...

As observed in NOWFASHION's look at independent designer brands, the Fall/Winter 2016 menswear shows in Paris have barely kicked off, but the quest for youth is already palpable on the runways – and even established fashion labels such as Lemaire, Valentino, Haider Ackermann, and Raf Simons got a fair share of the youth pie.     "I have so much time now," Raf Simons gushed...

Independent designers are talking about their generation “Supreme is my Louis Vuitton” – Virgil Abloh’s statement echoes throughout his latest menswear offering in Paris – and this catchy phrase says a lot about the designer himself, his brand, and the current status quo of the fashion industry. In times where expensive and showy fashion labels are no longer available to a fashion-savvy...

From Dolce & Gabbana's spaguetti western and Prada's fashionable autodafé to the success of Dundas at Roberto Cavalli and Alessandro Michele at Gucci, Milan menswear Fall/Winter 2016 fashion week has been rich in fashion moments. Here are ten more of them selected by NOWFASHION:   FENDI There was something reassuring and sexy at same time in this Fall/Winter menswear collection by...

At men's fashion week here, there were few burgeoning stars on show, but the ones who were strove hard to mirror the vanguard heavyweights like Giorgio Armani and Salvatore Ferragamo who have the financial power to purchase the best yarns and textiles available on the market today.   At the end of the day, leaders here said buyers look to emerging Italian designers because of their proximity...

A testament to the sporty casual trend sweeping through Italy's traditional menswear sector, Giorgio Armani's namesake and junior line are where we witnessed firsthand just how rampant the casualization of menswear is taking hold of Italy's traditional fashion sector.     At the the designer's junior label, puffa scarves were paired with velvet blazers and funky ski leggings,...

What does one expect while waiting for a fashion show to start? The lights to go down, the music to start playing and the models to come out from backstage. Well, that is not all that happened yesterday at County of Milan’s. The show started with a strong and sacred moment, a real shamanistic ceremony, performed by Marcelo Burlon himself. It took two weeks of training, as he explained during...

In his latest Fall/Winter 2016 collection, Gucci Creative Director Alessandro Michele drew his inspiration from the past, reaching into the house's 1970s memory vault to create pieces that were infused with what the show notes called Poetic Reactivation.       Plunging the audience into a dense, red, almost pulp-like atmosphere, he brought to the catwalk a well-thought out ensemble...

Our present history shown through Miuccia Prada’s menswear collection at Milan fashion week. It is not easy to digest Prada’s latest Fall/Winter show. The very first taste it leaves in your mouth is of extraordinary beauty and a great sense of modernity. You feel that there is something incredibly mysterious and romantic about it, yet you are not sure if the message you got is clear enough...

A Sicilian interpretation of Sergio Leone’s “A Fistful of Dollars.” Sicily and its many historical beauties were way off the topic at the Dolce & Gabbana Fall/Winter show. This time the designers have turned to a much subtler subject and if everyone thought we would see Sicilian-looking cowboys on the catwalk, well, we were all wrong.     Even if the invitation itself suggested...

On the first day of Milan's men's fashion week, the industry's top editors filled the baroque armchairs and brocade divans of Milan's Napoleon-era Palazzo Crespi to catch a glimpse of what would mark Peter Dundas' first menswear collection – made under the auspices of the Roberto Cavalli label. After a lukewarm reception from the industry after his first women's wear show for the label in...

Over the four days of London’s menswear shows, there’s been no shortage of patriotic tub-thumping. Brands trumpet their roots with pride: Made In Britain, Best of British. The BFC’s showrooms, here and abroad, now welcome buyers and press from over forty countries. And schedule stalwarts like Burberry and Paul Smith have bottled the essence of Britishness itself, expertly packaged to sell...

As London Collections: Men draw to a close, the NEWGEN designers emerge at the forefront of the Fall/Winter 2016 season despite the odds. Current prospects in fashion are indeed bleak. The uncertainty in the wake of Raf Simons’ departure from Christian Dior, which was closely followed by Alber Elbaz’s from Lanvin, is still keenly felt. And, of course, the unprecedented and equally foreboding...