Briony Wright

In 1952, Elsa Schiaparelli ventured to Fiera de Santana in Brazil, where she described being “dressed in a cowboy outfit embroidered with white butterflies... in [her] hands held a lasso to catch an invisible cow!” Shortly after the cattle drive, the Vaquieros, or cowboys, rode with Schiaparelli back to the corral. It was here that she was awarded the ‘Order of the Vaquieros,’ something she likened to a primitive rite. Why the cowboy discussion?

0 $0.00 0 items At the mark of a quarter-century, Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons negotiate what beauty and femininity mean at Prada. If we were to take a sweeping survey of the Western beauty ideal and the concept of the feminine, it would include a surgical menu of procedures and modifications.

The Comme des Garçons office in Tokyo, with its unflinching pale light, feels more like an art gallery. Tao Kurihara would not want you to think that her Spring/Summer collection is a work of art, though. As a member of the Comme crew, Kurihara's pieces reject commerciality in favour of individual expressionism, subversive silhouettes and handmade application.