2010's Defining Moments

Milanese style Prada The best of estethica The D&G show The Giorgio Armani show The Moschino showcourtesy of guardian.co.uk

Milan fashion week: 50 years young

The Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana (National Chamber for Italian Fashion) is an Association of top Italian fashion types which disciplines, co-ordinates and promotes the development of Italian Fashion (note the capitals there). Essentially it conceived of, and now runs, Milan fashion week. This year it sees its 50th anniversary with, strangely, very little trumpet-blowing. So we decided to

Why Everything French Is Hot Again?

BubbliciousParis designers have drawn inspiration from the four corners of the globe and even outer space. But for Fall, many of them stayed closer to home, mining that ineffable chic that can only be described as Parisian. Or to put it another way, Lacroix wasn't the only designer doing Lacroix on the runways. At Louis Vuitton—all ruffles, ruches, and poufs—Marc Jacobs name-checked Marie Seznec,

Dior Universe

The French House celebrates 60 years of fashion photographyWhen Carmen Snow, editor of Harper's Bazaar magazine, said Christian Dior back to 1947: "What a revolution, dear! Your clothing has opened a New Look", and diminished post-war Paris emerged with a new light. Dior then became a living legend, and her needle, in the most desired.The French House celebrates 60 years of pictures, full of

Glory days

Vogue discussed in the April number of sublime haute couture collections that were in the last edition. With the world questioning their survival, Couture uncovered 'jar' essences. Collections sublime became the city of Paris in Wonderland, analyzed in detail by the magazine Vogue.For example, Christian Dior, in Paris, a depressed and lacking in resources after the Second World War, became an