This was a season that Lanvin explored extremes. From volume, fringing, feathers, fur to unfinished tweed, all were approached with equal measures of flamboyance and freedom on designer Alber Elbaz's part. Raw edges completed shaggy tweed coats, just as the designer's signature ruffles layered up three-quarter length skirts, and fringing danced off his cocktail dresses. Further upping the drama were the season's marabou plumage-laden hats, which possessed both the Edwardian era's elegance and stature - veiling models' eyes like Audrey Hepburn's Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady - even down to the show's semi-transparent opera gloves. Where Elbaz did hold back was on a draped strapless leather dress and a supple trench coat, followed by his procession of film noir bias-cut silk sheaths. Although it wasn't long before their edges were similarly finished with bugle beads as well as futuristic rounded-shoulder shapes that received the same jewelled treatment. But that's not to say there wasn't restraint for every flourish, most overtly seen in Elbaz's 1960s-style skirt-suiting, which was almost clean if you simply slipped off a fur shrug.
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Nina Runsdorf brings classic jewellery back to life to mark 20 yearsNew York-based jewellery designer Nina Runsdorf celebrates her eponymous brand’s anniversary with a new jewellery collection, ‘Archive’
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Enter the world of Cave Bureau, and its architectural and geological explorationsNairobi practice Cave Bureau explores architecture’s role in the geological afterlives of colonialism, as part of a team exhibiting at the British pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025
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All-In is the Paris-based label making full-force fashion for main character dressingPart of our monthly Uprising series, Wallpaper* meets Benjamin Barron and Bror August Vestbø of All-In, the LVMH Prize-nominated label which bases its collections on a riotous cast of characters – real and imagined
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Palace unites with Rapha to celebrate inaugural Tour de France FemmesMarking the first time women will compete in the historic cycling race since the late 1980s, this new collaboration sees Palace Skateboards and Rapha create uniforms for both on and off the bike – including an ‘outlandish’ pair of Crocs
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Paris Fashion Week A/W 2022: Chanel to Miu MiuIn this extended report, Wallpaper* updates you live from Paris Fashion Week A/W 2022 shows, with rolling coverage as runway events unfold
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Scene-stealing runway sets from S/S 2022 womenswear showsFrom giant roulette wheels to Olympic diving boards and multi-city synchronized extravaganzas – our pick of the best fashion show sets from S/S 2022 womenswear
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