Well, this is kind of depressing. Amy Winehouse had an ongoing collaboration with Fred Perry to produce womenswear based on her personal style. You can see the previous collection here, modeled by Amy herself. In the wake of her death, Fred Perry has decided to continue with the release of...

It’s become designer Riccardo Tisci’s practice in recent seasons to tone down the theatricality and let the clothes do the talking. Continuing in that vein, this collection was presented in three separate rooms entitled, “Angels,” “Bird of Paradise,” and...

With John Galliano relegated to the sidelines on account of being an asshat, the designing duties for the Dior couture collection  fell to his former assistant, Bill Gaytten. The debut was not exactly a triumph. In fact, it was roundly panned, and rightly so. Gaytten defined his inspirations...

Having featured the H&M Womenswear lookbook several days ago, we are way behind on getting the boyclothes out there for discussion and/or the formation of shopping lists and the counting of pennies. Because we don’t know about you guys, but we love this collection. While it...

We realize that the first week of June is not normally a time when most of us want to look at sweaters, but such is the strange calendar by which the fashion world operates. Crank up the AC if you have to, because we think this is an amazingly chic-looking collection coming out of H &...

Project Runway Season 8 finalist Mondo Guerra presented his fall 2011 collection at Fashion Week El Paseo in California. In many ways, it’s simply a continuation of his Project Runway finale collection, utilizing exactly the same motifs, shapes and design elements. That’s probably...

Talk about your proverbial treat for the eyes. It’s always interesting to see what Manish Arora is going to present every season. His collections are always colorful, rich in details, and offer just enough of a twist on forms and shapes as to always make it interesting. This collection...

The inspiration for this collection was a contemporary take on Vermeer’s famous “Girl with a Pearl Earring,” and Flemish still life paintings. It took a bit of squinting but we finally got the connection with the strong lines and the play of light and dark occasionally...

Once again, Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pier Paolo Piccoli put their own touches on the Valentino line while reaching at the same time into the house archive for inspiration. We love the result. There’s a feeling of tension in these designs, a pulling in opposite directions; romantic and...

Titled “The Ice Queen and her Court,” the latest McQueen collection from Sarah Burton wallowed in some of the references McQueen himself was known for – wild fantasy coupled with a sort of European regalism – while managing not to look like it was treading paths already...

The word of the day, unfortunately, is lackluster. Ever the Clown Prince of Fashion, Jean Paul Gaultier seems to have paid short shrift to the fashion part this time around and got a little too caught up in the clown part. We’ve always loved his lighthearted approach to things in an...

Project Runway Season 8 winner (and easily the most controversial win in the show’s history) Gretchen Jones debuted her fall collection. We’ll let Gretchen have the floor:  “Gretchen Jones’ FW2011 Collection, “Black Tears and Strange Dream,” is named after a...

It’s rare, when a designer says their inspiration was armor, for the clothes to actually evoke armor in any but the most esoteric of way, because conventional wisdom would have it that you can’t make clothes for the 21st Century woman that look too much like real armor. Well,...

In light of John Galliano’s recent troubles, the Christian Dior show was a toned-down presentation, less dramatic than one would normally expect. This time, the theatricality that characterized Galliano’s shows was banned, and the proceedings were much more focused on the clothes....

With all the ’80s looks walking the runways lately, it was only a matter of time before someone had the nerve to make Duckie from Pretty in Pink into a fashion icon in 2011. And why not? Jon Cryer’s character inspired an entire generation of sexually confused boys to button their...

Not that she ever really strayed too far from the Versace aesthetic of attention-getting clothes for party girls, celebrities and the occasional rebellious socialite, but with this collection Donatella is making a firm and solid declaration of what Versace has always been about. With its...

Tired of the ’70s retreads on the runway? Well, good news. Stefano and Domenico are all about the ’80s right now. And not the New Wave ’80s that other designers are dabbling in; no, Dolce and Gabbana went for the late ’80s, neon and candy-colored, high-top sneakers and...

David Neville and Marcus Wainwright of Rag & Bone turned to Edward, Duke of Windsor to inspire their menswear collection and the result is a tweedy, plaidy, array of old school gentlemen’s clothing. And in the best gentleman’s tradition, the clothes are rich and woven with...

Frida Giannini hasn’t left the ’70s for this collection but since this is the 1970s by way of the 1940s (in other words, the truly chic and timeless part of the ’70s), we can’t complain. In fact, complaining seems completely inappropriate when we’re faced with...

Diane von Furstenberg took the trends for this season; reds and blacks, vivid blues and teals, an overall sense of glamour and luxury, and interpreted them through the DVF lens. It’s, as usual, an urban sort of chic with a touch of the international and more than a touch of disco. DVF...

Thakoon Panichgul says he took inspiration for this collection when he noticed the similarities between the costumes of Versailles and the garments worn by Kenyan tribes. Even for the world of fashion, that’s a pretty eclectic mix. He’s known for mixing prints, and does so here,...