By Sara Bright Every September, New York Fashion Week does more than preview what we shall wear in the months ahead – it reads the…
By Sara Bright When Matthieu Blazy first set foot in the couture salon at 31 Rue Cambon – the hallowed Paris address where Gabrielle “Coco”…
By Sara Bright “Fashion is Art,” proclaimed the Costume Institute. The celebrities, for the most part, heeded the message by becoming walking, sparkly and sometimes…
By Sara Bright Few luxury brands carry a name that doubles as a verb. To say you have lost a Choo – that breathless, almost…
By Sara Bright The canvas was never the point. Himani Dubey knew this before she could articulate it. At nine years old, growing up in…
By Sara Bright Nine months have passed since Giorgio Armani left the world he so meticulously dressed. The Italian fashion house he built from nothing…
By Sara Bright On the evening of 5 November 2024, roughly 2,000 guests ascended a 197-foot escalator at the Hong Kong Design Institute in Tseung…
By Sara Bright In February 2025, inside the wood-panelled chambers of Germany’s Federal Court of Justice in Karlsruhe, presiding judge Thomas Koch delivered a verdict…
By Sara Bright When Alma Cooper stepped on to the Peacock Theatre stage in Los Angeles on the evening of 4 August 2024, she carried…
By Sara Bright So, he’s gone. Valentino Garavani. The man who arguably invented the concept of the “lifestyle” designer before Instagram made it a chore,…