This women’s season, tampered by debilitating cold, held few surprises. Designers by and large stuck to what they do, but they did it so well that those of us who prefer to dig deep were satisfied.
We would like to present to you Ann Demeulemeester’s Fall/Winter 2018 Women’s Paris collection.
Photography by Matthew Reeves.
We would like to present to you Ann Demeulemeester’s Fall/Winter 2018 Men’s Paris collection backstage.
Photography by Julien Boudet.
My first showroom visit was to Boris Bidjan Saberi, where I got to examine closely those tubelike garments that he put on the runway two days prior.
Paris was its usual gray and cold, a kind of weather for which “discomforting” is the best word. They are still short on comfort in Paris, 21st Century be damned, and maybe there is a kind of purpose in that, lest we humans get too self-satisfied.
We would like to present to you Ann Demeulemeester’s Fall/Winter 2018 Men’s Paris collection.
Photography by Matthew Reeves.
It was with great trepidation that I first walked into the Ann Demeulemeester flagship store in Antwerp in 2001. It was on my first trip to Europe. I was twenty-five, and I was backpacking, reclaiming my American right of passage, about seven years too late, but I had no money before that. It’s safe to say that I was probably the only backpacker this summer to stop over in Antwerp to go shopping for fashion. But it was the highlight of my trip. I stuffed my backpack into a locker at the magnificent Antwerp train station, and made a beeline for Louis, followed by Dries Van Noten, and then a long walk down Nationalstraat to Ann Demeulemeester, saving the best for last. I don’t remember why, but I only bought a belt there, which I still wear. “Just the belt?” the salesperson ask, probably not meaning to embarrass me.
Photographer – Yana Bardadim
Stylist – Karlo Steel
Model – Nastya Siten @ Wilhelmina
Stylist Assistant – Patrick LaDuke
We would like to present to you Ann Demeulemeester’s Spring/Summer 2018 Women’s Paris collection backstage.
Photography by Julien Boudet.
New York Fashion Week has become such a dispiriting spectacle of banality and celebrity entertainment that I did not go a single show. So, on to Paris, the home of real design, or, more accurately, a place where real design is shown.