Archive for July 2018
Lebanese Designers Know How to Empower Women
Lebanese designers Elie Saab, Zuhair Murad and Georges Hobeika presented Haute Couture Fall Winter 2018-2019 collection Lebanese designers Haute Couture Fashion Week is the opportunity for designers to show their creativity and passion for what they do. Having been working for months, a red carpet event is not complete without a celebrity or two in…
Read MoreDeath To Tennis Spring 2019
A call to the end of tyranny and convention! Also known as ‘Death to Tennis’ a fashion brand to watch and know founded by British designers Vincent Oshin and William Watson. The young men’s label has gained a fair amount of attention in the past few seasons, still stating that there is a ‘style war’…
Read MoreEva Minge Spring Summer 2019
Eva Minge presented a The Swan Lake themed fashion show which took place in the Westin Hotel in Paris. The show began with ballet dancers making an introduction setting a clear theme of the collection which was a mix of romance and drama. The designer mostly used pastel colours, conveying an over all rather soft…
Read MoreDeborah Kidd: The Return of an Icon
Awaiting for the arrival of the Seattle-born supermodel with my editor-in-chief. The delectable veteran 56-year young supermodel from the 80s, Deborah Kidd, walked in with grand style. Accompanied by many famous designers including Yves Saint Laurent, Givenchy, Kenzo, Weill, Plan Sud, Ted Lapidus, Dirk Bikkemberg, Balenciaga and La Perla. We got to sit down and…
Read More“Je Suis Couturier” 41 Dresses in Homage to the Great Azzedine Alaïa
IRK magazine was invited to the opening of Azzedine Alaïa’s exhibition held at the late designer’s home and studio. The opening was on the first day of Haute Couture Fashion Week. His close friends including Naomi Campbell and Carla Sozzani were there among the fashion elite to honor Azzedine Alaïa and to take a glimpse…
Read MoreEloise Labarbe-lafon “Bambi” Interview
At only 23 years old, Eloise Labarbe-lafon, a young artist and student of the Sorbonne University of Art History weaves a world of her own. She has an extraordinary technique that mixes photography and painting. She creates unique photos through an alliance that takes us into a dream like world by the choice of its…
Read MoreAlessandro Trincone Spring 2019
Gender is a frontier in the early twenty-first century. New York Fashion Week Men’s is not known for non-binary, gender fluid collections. The American spring summer look during the New York shows is fairly affixed to street wear, ripping, toned bodies and one to two steps to the left of Abercrombie and Fitch clutching at…
Read MoreTony Ward, FW18/19 Couture – Narrative Windows
Tony Ward Couture, for their Fall Winter 2018/19 collection of sculpted narratives, inspired by the art of stained glass. The collection, volumous and translucent, shined down the runway giving us a narrative of hard work and expertise. The creation of dresses and gowns that refract light on the body through shear materials sculpted with heavier…
Read MoreDescendant of Thieves Spring 2019
The new international set is a group of young people who lead their lives following DJs form city to city. Ibiza, Mykonos, Croatia and the Mayan Riviera specifically Tulum. This jet set crowd journey from NYC, London, Milan, Paris, and Barcelona. They travel to party and to unplug in a natural relaxed setting bringing their…
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