There's always so much to feel good about at a Michael Kors show. Not only do we get Mr Michael Kors in all his post show glory, smiling and running like a nine year-old down the runway, but we regularly get treated to great music, and A-lister models we've actually heard of. This time we got all that and more, as Kors added the quadruple pleasure of consistently terrific clothes, making this a quadra-fecta fashion moment. With the Mamas and the Papas 'California Dreaming' on the soundtrack and clean light pouring through Spring Street Studios, Kors delivered a collection of louche looking luxury. Against a cast of truly beautiful women like Carolyn Murphy, Karen Elson, Jacquetta Wheeler and Frankie Rayder, Kors' cosy cool clothes in a warm palette of flecked oatmeal and tobacco looked even richer. The designer called this collection the 'Big Easy' and he was spot on. Wide-leg trousers in supple buttery cashmere and oversized mega-ply sweaters all enveloped the body like a warm cocoon, while speckled furs bounced with light volume over tailored daywear. Kors cuts a mean pair of double-faced cashmere sweatpants, but this season we were more moved by the delicate craft details such as bird feathers, leather flower embroideries, or the metal rivet holes that were dusted across prim grey wool dresses and coats.
Photography: Jason Lloyd-Evans
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A photographic study of a family hi-fi store is a vivid portrait of a small businessFashion photographer Nik Hartley looked behind the scenes at Wilkinson’s Hi-Fi, a longstanding part of its Lancashire community.
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Sarah Moon brings painterly fashion and dark fantasy to Fotografiska New YorkOctogenarian French photographer and filmmaker Sarah Moon shows 30 years of work at Fotografiska New York – spanning fashion and fantasy, mystery and the macabre, it’s dark, painterly and compelling
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‘In America: A Lexicon of American Fashion' is coming to The MetThe first of a two-part, year-long extravaganza, ‘In America: A Lexicon of American Fashion’ is organised into 12 sections that seek to define the emotional qualities in American style
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Saint Laurent celebrates 40 years of Memphis GroupMemphis Group's milestone birthday is celebrated with a series of colourful furniture installations across the French maison's concept boutiques
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Es Devlin-designed time-travelling exhibition opens at The Met’s Costume Institute‘Our aim is to communicate the phenomenon of time as it is expressed through the female form,’ says Devlin of the exhibition she has designed alongside curator Andrew Bolton
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