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Léa Daaboul, the Lebanese-American founder of Léa the Label, moved to Dubai a decade ago; a decision which she describes as a “mix of business and love’’. As it turns out, she relocated to be with her now husband, Michel Hakim, but also to sow the seeds for her eponymous…
I am waiting for Michael Kors in an all-white room backstage before his Spring/Summer 2024 Collection catwalk show in New York. I hear him before I see him but, when he does appear, I see he’s dressed in his signature head to toe black, accessorised with his all-season suntan. “This…
IT’S ALMOST SEVEN YEARS SINCE YOU FOUNDED LA REVÊCHE, WHAT DID YOU WANT TO CHANGE THROUGH YOUR BRAND? [Sara Melis, Owner & Creative Director of La Revêche] I wanted to create a new concept of swimwear that goes beyond a simple garment used for swimming. My aim was to introduce…
So Penélope Cruz wore a Chanel Haute Couture dress to the Los Angeles premiere of ‘Ferrari’ by Michael Mann on December 12th and we wanted to know more about. It seems that, in exactly the same way that the biggest car companies like to flex their creative muscles and show…
On the day the fashion designer Glenn Martens was announced as the new creative director at Diesel, no one was more excited than his big brother. “He was a megafan long before I got there,” says the Belgian designer of his elder sibling, a fireman. “His Instagram is dedicated to…
Ruby Rose Korver created Arnie Swim as a passion project but it also serves as an ode to her late father, Arnie Korver. “My father shaped me as a person and taught me so many life lessons. I wanted to create something that makes people feel good, and gives them…
PIERPAOLO PICCIOLI, YOU HAVE A WIFE, CHILDREN, A DOG. YOUR WORK IS VERY GLAMOROUS BUT YOU DON’T EVEN LIVE IN ROME. WHAT KIND OF LIFE DO YOU LIVE? I don’t want to change my simple life in Nettuno, the place where my wife Simona and I grew up, and the…
Bahaar is a lifestyle brand you’re going to want to get familiar with. Centred around dresses, beachwear, tops and skirts, it was founded two years ago by Sofya Benzakour, a Paris-based architect turned fashion blogger, as a tribute to her Moroccan heritage. “My grandmother used to sew kaftans, and I…
YOU’RE FROM COMO IN ITALY. YOU STARTED YOUR CAREER IN YOUR FATHER GIANFRANCO’S CLOTHING COMPANY IN THE US THEN CAME BACK TO ITALY AND CREATED YOUR OWN BRAND, NEW ENGLAND, WHICH YOU SOLD IN 2000. WHEN DID YOU BECOME THE CREATIVE DIRECTOR OF MONCLER? [Remo Ruffini] In 2000. MONCLER WAS…
The Swiss-born Lebanese designer Sandra Mansour says she had aspired to become an artist long before she ever made the shift to fashion. And you can see as much in her work, which carries dreamy, romantic elements, as well as characterful prints that betray her passion for painting. Yet, in…
