On my site, « Haute Couture: the eighth art, » I love to decipher those moments when fashion transcends clothing to touch the artistic. Elie Saab’s Haute Couture Spring/Summer 2025 collection, titled « Portrait of a Dream », is precisely one of those magical instances. What Saab offers us here is a total immersion in an « Impressionist garden. » I …
Late January 2025, the renovated Grand Palais pulsed with the rhythm of the CHANEL Haute Couture Spring/Summer 2025 show. A doubly symbolic moment, I find: not only celebrating the house’s 110 years in this supreme art form that is Haute Couture, but also a collection born in the interim, designed by the in-house studio while …
Paris, late January. Haute Couture Week is in full swing, and all eyes are on Dior. On January 27th , Maria Grazia Chiuri unveiled her vision for Spring/Summer 2025, a collection conceived as a deep dive into « sartorial memory. » Far from a simple retrospective, the ambition was to create a dialogue between eras, to « disrupt …
