Kate Moss Takes To The Bottega Veneta Catwalk

Bottega Veneta is known for its high-profile following, ranging from Kendall Jenner to Rihanna. But a rather unexpected name took to the catwalk for the brand’s spring/summer 2023 show: the one and only Kate Moss. The supermodel wore a checked shirt, white tank top and loose-fitting jeans as part of creative director Matthieu Blazy’s sophomore collection.

Given that Moss’s runway appearances are somewhat of a rarity (her last one being at the Fendace extravaganza in September 2021), any outing on the catwalk is sure to be a moment. Her look epitomised Blazy’s understated day wear – something we got a taste of in his debut collection last season – as well as harking back to Moss’s effortlessly cool Calvin Klein ads from the ’90s.

While Moss wasn’t previously known to be a Bottega Veneta fan, could this be the start of a brand new partnership? Here’s hoping we see the model with one of the brand’s classic intrecciato bags slung over her shoulder soon.

There Was A ’90's Supermodel Reunion In Milan

Nearly 30 years after storming the runways together back in the ’90s, OG supermodels Helena Christensen and Eva Herzigova were reunited on the front row of the Dolce & Gabbana show at Milan Fashion Week today.

The pair sported matching black ensembles for the occasion: Christensen opted for a lingerie-inspired number, finished off with a bold red lip, while Herzigova went for a tailored minidress from Dolce & Gabbana’s autumn/winter 2022 collection.

Appropriately, given that the supers both walked for Dolce & Gabbana during the ’90s, this season’s collection – curated by Kim Kardashian – comprised re-editions from the Italian fashion house’s vast archives. “There’s a story behind every outfit,” Stefano Gabbana told British Vogue’s fashion critic Anders Christian Madsen. ”Somebody will remember the moment, the model, the actress, pop star.”

It’s not the first time that Christensen and Herzigova have reunited for the brand. Back in 2018, the models took to the runway for Dolce & Gabbana’s spring/summer 2019 show, which also featured the likes of Monica Bellucci and Carla Bruni.

Dolce & Gabbana’s S/S'23 Show Curated By Kim Kardashian

For its spring/summer 2023 collection, Dolce & Gabbana asked Kim Kardashian to play the role of curator; here, British Vogue’s fashion critic Anders Christian Madsen breaks down the five biggest takeaways from the ’90s- and ’00s-inspired show.

The collection was curated by Kim Kardashian

When she stepped off her private jet in Milan three days ago, the cat was out of the bag: Kim Kardashian was working on the Dolce & Gabbana show. It wasn’t a collaboration but a curation. The designers asked the superstar – who has an extensive private collection of their archive pieces – to select her favourite looks from their own archives between 1987 and 2007. Then, they remade them, flew to Los Angeles, and started putting together the collection with Kardashian. “About 80 per cent of the clothes are exactly the same [as the original pieces], we just corrected them a little bit,” Domenico Dolce explained during a preview. Kardashian said she was most drawn to pieces from the ’90s and early ’00s. “The simplicity and tailoring, for me, has always been so important. Obviously, I love the glitz and you see some of that in the show, but when something is tailored properly, it changes everything, no matter how simple or ornate it is.”

Kardashian paid tribute to ’90s and early ’00s Dolce & Gabbana

The show played out like a dream scenario for any original Dolce & Gabbana fan. With a brilliantly cheeky film of Kardashian eating a bowl of spaghetti in slow motion as backdrop, her affinity for the ’90s and Y2K epochs of the brand – something anyone who grew up in that era will relate to – manifested in black, grey and beige silhouettes. There were nostalgic icons like bandage dresses, ripped denim trousers, metal bustiers, crystal-encrusted dresses and tops, diamanté bras and belts and chokers, low-riding rodeo jeans, and plenty of leopard-on-leopard. Nods to Kardashian’s current wardrobe included boots that morphed into leggings and the kind of lightweight bodycon dresses that paved the way for her brand Skims. “This conversation has been so interesting because it opened up our memories of Linda Evangelista, Isabella Rossellini, Monica Bellucci wearing these clothes,” Dolce reflected. “There’s a story behind every outfit. Somebody will remember the moment, the model, the actress, pop star…” Gabbana said. Describing the quintessential Italian sensuality that defines that era of the brand, Kardashian said it was about empowerment.

It all started with Kourtney Kardashian’s wedding

It was thanks to Kardashian’s sister Kourtney that the cur-labo-ration came about in the first place. When Dolce & Gabbana offered to dress the bride, her husband Travis Barker and all their guests for their wedding in Portofino in May this year, her sister Kim approached the dress code a little differently. “Everyone was getting these amazing ornate looks done,” she said, “but I brought the archive looks I had been collecting. Every night we had dinners and [Domenico and Stefano] would say, ‘Oh my God, this is from 1997! We don’t even have this in our archives!’ It sparked the idea of reimagining the pieces from the archive that really spoke to me,” Kardashian explained. “This process has been a dream come true. To see everything remade, and to see the originals come in… After all these years, this is the stuff we want to wear today. As a designer, I would think that was so cool when you see people emulating that. We wear it so similarly today to how it was shot and worn back then.”

Kardashian grew up with Dolce & Gabbana

The partnership was an instinctive match for Kardashian, who was familiar with the Dolce & Gabbana genetics from an early age. “I remember my mom’s very specific Dolce & Gabbana dresses that she’d wear when she’d go on date nights with my stepdad. She always looked so smart and so strong,” she reminisced. “One year, all I wanted to do was borrow my mom’s Dolce & Gabbana dress and wear it in one of our Christmas cards, and I did a full photo shoot in front of her garage wearing this black dress with a built-in bra and a choker attached to it. I’ll never forget that look.” As a teenager, Kardashian worked in a store that carried D&G. “All I wanted was D&G dresses. I would use all my pay cheques to buy these dresses and the jeans and the belts. I remember using my dad’s credit card because I didn’t get my pay cheque yet, so I got an advance from my dad. For Christmas, he paid off my D&G bill,” she laughed. “I still have the dresses to this day.” So strong was the Kardashian devotion to the designers that they paid tribute through man’s best friend. “I mean, our dogs were named Dolce and Gabbana! When one Gabbana passed away we got another one and named him Gabbana, too. He was a black lab and Dolce was a little chihuahua,” she said. “It’s very close to the reality,” Gabbana quipped.

It was about diversity, inclusivity and wearability

Asked how she would like the history books to remember her impact on fashion, Kardashian said her objectives were always founded in broadening its appeal. “I hope that they will recognise how important to me it is to be inclusive and diverse with all body types.” She imbued her curation with the same values. “There will definitely be something for everyone in this collection. It’s very wearable. The one thing I feel that I’ve gotten my confidence in is finding something that can look intimidating – like a crystal dress – but if you simplify it, more people can feel comfortable wearing it, and I think we really achieved that. There are pieces that fit all different body types. Age diversity is really important to me. I know my grandmother is gonna call me begging for some pieces, and so are my friends,” she said. “I want to see all women wearing this. My younger sisters are gonna die when they see our 2000s references.”

Versace’s “Dark Gothic Goddess” S/S'23 Show

For its spring/summer 2023 offering, Versace put on a gothic spectacle in Milan. Here, British Vogue’s fashion critic Anders Christian Madsen recaps the darkly glamorous highlights.

It was a gothic dream

Teasing a gothic experience, the Versace invitation came wrapped around a bundle of black candles gold-stamped with the house’s logo. Upon arrival in one of the vast outskirt-y show spaces increasingly favoured by the designers of Milan, the candles multiplied a thousand-fold. Lined up and lit inside a glass box on a purple runway like a wedding in a mausoleum, they set the mood for Donatella Versace’s “Dark Gothic Goddess” show, which opened with a holy trinity: Gigi Hadid, Mona Tougaard and Rianne Van Rompaey clad in black asymmetrically-cut dresses, some with priestly hoods, others with assertive slashes across the front. They were Donatella’s dark angels.

There was lace and leather galore

Icky Blossoms’s “Sex to the Devil” and Viagra Boys’s “Punk Rock Loser” scored an attitude-filled show that explored the depths of the gothic wardrobe through Versace’s obsessive-compulsive glam-core lens. Slick black leather coats segued into fringed biker jackets and trousers from the rock ’n’ roll wardrobe, which transitioned into spiky ’90s tops worn with little miniskirts cut as low on the hips as the Y2K trousers that followed. “I have always loved a rebel. A woman who is confident, smart and a little bit of a diva. She wears leather, studs and frayed denim and she has enough attitude to mix them with chiffon, jersey and a tiara!” Donatella said.

Purple reigned supreme

Before the show started, guests were serenaded with Prince’s “Purple Rain” – an anthem for Donatella Versace, who counted the superstar amongst her friends and had him perform at a show in 2011. A series of purple dresses mid-show paid further homage by way of zebra-print lace dresses, head-to-toe supple leather outfits, and shaggy coats upcycled from off-cut chiffon and lace that resembled fur. “She is a strong liberated woman,” Donatella said of her goth-glam season muse. “She is gorgeous, she knows it. She is the goddess of freedom.”

Paris Hilton closed the show

Before the show’s grand finale, a series of bridesmaids including Bella Hadid, Kiki Willems, Steinberg and Vittoria Ceretti walked down the aisle in purple, neon green and pink negligee dresses and veils, paving the way for the heiress – or, in this case, the goddess – of them all: Paris Hilton, strutting her stuff in a plunging pink glitter dress, lace gloves and a matching veil. She may not have been a dark gothic goddess, but she is the eternal Y2K goddess of brains and beauty, girl power and endurance.

Donatella debuted a bunch of new accessories

In the accessories department, Donatella adorned her gothic goddesses with Greca Goddess bags in the purple and green colours of the collection, and La Medusa Repeat hobo bags in all the studs, leather fringe and mirror embellishment of the season. They were elevated on strappy sandals, Mary Janes and huge rubber platform sandals for the neo-gothic princess that lives inside us all.

Gucci’s Twin-tastic S/S'23 Show

Alessandro Michele’s spring/summer 2023 offering for Gucci featured dozens of sets of twins – and a powerful political message. Here, British Vogue’s fashion critic Anders Christian Madsen recaps the designer’s most personal collection to date.

The show built up to a big surprise

Twinning is winning. At least if you ask Alessandro Michele, who – at the end of a 68-look Gucci collection presented on individual models – raised a wall placed at the centre of his runway to reveal that another audience had been watching the same show on the other side… on identical twin models. You could literally hear a gasp penetrating the soundtrack as his guests realised what was going on. Titled Twinsburg, the show was Michele’s ode to the duality he said exists within us all. As the shock settled in the audience, each of the twins joined hands and started the show from scratch, walking the runway together as Marianne Faithfull recited a nursery rhyme to cinematic music on the soundtrack. “We are two totally opposite, different, identical twins.” For Michele, it was personal. “Sometimes I meet my other me in the dark of night,” he admitted.

Alessandro Michele is the son of twins

Michele grew up knowing two mothers: his biological mother and her twin sister, who looked and dressed identically, lived in the same house, and both played an equal maternal role in his life. When he was seven-years-old, in 1979, his aunt died. “Day after day, I was waiting for my other mother to come back,” he recalled in an interview after the show. “One of the two had disappeared but nobody told me my aunt was not my mum.” It instilled in Michele a lifelong fascination with twindom, not just from a biological point of view but in spirit: the idea that two personas inhabit our souls and make up our characters. “Twinsburg is us. It’s a viewpoint. It’s my home. Yours too,” he said. “It’s a reflection on otherness: the other person who lives inside of you when you dig inside yourself.” And, he noted, a message about finding common ground. “If you make an effort, there’s somebody out there who’s like you. That’s the idea.”

The collection drew on Michele’s 1980s upbringing – and the Gremlins

Because it was a personal collection for Michele, it materialised in the aesthetics you suspected he grew up with. It was a view of the 1980s expressed in a decidedly thrift store-y take on his time-travelling Gucci street style: oversized droopy-shouldered blousons resembling Members Only jackets, voluminous leather joggers, two-piece wrap suits cut like samue, flouncy broad-shouldered jumpsuits, and a wealth of power prints, a lot of which could have been fished out of a West London vintage store. “We all have some objects that have made the world of clothing fascinating,” he said. “My cross-references are self-explanatory. I like to say they’re so clear they’re pornographic.” He adorned the collection’s accessories with a fluffy 1980s mascot: the Gremlins. “It’s a pop reference that can transform and become very evil and naughty, and also multiply,” as he put it. It was, naturally, timely – next year, a series reboot of the film is set to premiere on HBO.

Slogans protested the rise of the far-right in Italy

The show opened with an expression of the duality Michele was investigating: a gentleman’s suit with trousers cut in the memory of a lady’s suspender belt. “I’m fascinated with the relationship between the garment and the male body,” Michele said. “The suit reveals a part of the male body that’s normally covered. It’s the twin of the formal suit with the same body, but different.” With Italy on the brink of a seismic election that could put in power its most right-wing government since the Second World War and threaten LGBTQIA+ rights, amongst others freedoms, those types of garments were loaded with importance for Michele, who also emblazoned pieces with the word “Fuori!” Meaning “out”, it’s the name of the first homosexual organization in the country founded in 1971. “The election shows that freedom is being eroded. There was a time when we achieved a lot, but now it’s very complex,” he said. “We should not take anything for granted.”

It was Michele’s most personal collection to date

While Michele’s work for Gucci has always been reflective of his own life, this collection was his most overtly personal to date. Not only did he speak about his twin mothers, but about the process he has been going through in therapy trying to understand his own duality. “When I started seeing my therapist, she knew I was afraid of going to events,” he said, revealing a part of his character that would perhaps surprise many. “One day, I told her I had finally had fun at an event, and she said, ‘You were with another version of yourself. That’s why.’” For that reason, it seemed like a cathartic show for Michele, who said he had cried during the finale. “Working is becoming more and more intense for me. Trying to do things in a significant way requires a lot of passion. It’s much more complex, now, doing this job. There’s a time when you ask yourself, why am I doing this? But in a world where politics is a catastrophe and the planet is a disaster, as human beings, the only weapon we have is to imagine something else and make it happen. You’re not just working on shoes and bags and outfits.”

Autumns Breaking Fashion News

This week, the fashion world had quite a lot to say. Milan Fashion Week entered full throttle, with premier Houses including Gucci, Fendi and Prada presenting their Spring/Summer 2023 offerings across the Italian city; Kim Jones announced that Dior will unveil its next Men’s Pre-Fall collection with a grand showcase in Egypt, and Moncler planted the seeds for its 70th-anniversary Piazza del Duomo takeover this weekend. Elsewhere, Brad Pitt unexpectedly launched a genderless skincare line; Harris Reed assumed creative director at Nina Ricci, and, of course, Ye made several headlines for his ongoing feud with adidas and GAP.

Designer Kim Jones announced that he will present his upcoming Dior Men’s Pre-Fall collection in Egypt on December 3. The runway will stake claim in the foreground of the Giza Pyramids near the nation’s capital, Cairo, marking the French House’s latest destination show. According to a statement obtained by WWD, “the celestial collection celebrates a lifelong passion for travel.”

Jones spent his childhood years in Botswana, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Kenya and Ghana, so the show will naturally honor his long-standing connection to the continent. The lead visionary has a penchant for staging Men’s Pre-Fall collections abroad; following his appointment as creative director of Dior Homme in 2018, Jones carried the House tradition with runways in Miami and Tokyo. Last year, he revived the pre-COVID custom with a show in London.

Milan is home to some of fashion’s biggest players, and so far, this fashion week is proving the Italian city’s unequivocal influence on the industry at large. Among the Spring/Summer 2023 standouts, Gucci presented a “Twinsburg” collection on a legion of identical twins; MM6 Maison Margiela revealed a Salomon collaboration; Raf Simons and Miuccia Prada offered up an eery womenswear line for Prada; Diesel masterfully reinvented denim, and Kim Jones fitted Fendi in green. Above all, though, each runway let Italian craftsmanship bubble to the forefront.

Milan Fashion Week runs until Monday, September 26. For a full look at the latest Italian runway shows, peruse Hypebeast’s show coverage from the ongoing showcase.

Before he tragically passed, Off-White™ visionary Virgil Abloh worked alongside pro skater Sal Barbier on a pipe-ready capsule collection. The range, released earlier this week, includes a bevy of youthful apparel, merging Barbier’s distinctive designs with signature Off-White™ emblems.

Courtesy of Barbier, the brand’s classic arrow motif appears entangled with a mean-looking rattlesnake illustration in an all-grey colorway, across the collection. Dark blue hoodies, sweaters and T-shirts don the slithering symbol, and striking chromatic strips decorate denim ensembles with an unexpected dose of color. Additionally, the collection includes a pair of black and white sneakers, as well as a dark blue baseball cap.

Though Ye revealed that he terminated his partnership with GAP last week, YEEZY is still locked under strict limitations from the company, according to a document shared on Ye’s Instagram, titled “Summary of Restrictions on YEEZY Standalone Activities.”

The restriction notice, released on Monday, applies to YEEZY’s licensing and endorsing agreement with adidas and its strategic agreement with GAP. It reads, “Neither YEEZY nor Ye may use, wear, sponsor, promote, market, advertise, endorse, design, manufacture, license, sell or provide consulting services with respect to any of the following products under the YEEZY Trademarks or Ye’s likeness or any other identifiable attribute, feature or indica of Ye.” Following, the document lists the entire YEEZY catalog, including footwear, streetwear and accessories.

On Thursday, Ye shared a slew of screenshots from his conversations with adidas representatives before publicly outlining an offer to the company. On his Instagram Story, the CEO presented adidas with a non-exclusive manufacturing and distribution partnership deal, under which the athletic label would receive a royalty of 20% on net profits from generated sales.

Football superstar Neymar Jr. joined forces with PUMA on another apparel and footwear collection — this time, sourcing inspo from the athlete’s home country of Brazil. Among the range, the duo welcomes myriad premium basics, including a bomber jacket, mock neck crew, jacquard tee, relaxed tee, track pants and jacquard shorts. Footwear arrives with new takes on the PUMA Slipstream and the PUMA Leadcat, while accessories include a backpack, crossbody bag and two headwear offerings. Notably, the collection unites under a motif referencing three bird tattoos on the left side of Neymar Jr.’s neck.

“Since joining PUMA, they have been bringing a lot of my personality into the collections,” Neymaer Jr. said on the partnership. “They are authentic pieces, with cheerful colors and references from my daily life, such as tattoos. This tropical collection was also created to remind me a little of the atmosphere of Brazil and who I am as a person.”

On Tuesday, Moncler disclosed plans to take over Milan’s historical Piazza del Duomo with an honorary artistic spectacle celebrating its 70th anniversary. The show, directed by avant-garde Frech choreographer Sadeck Berrabah, will take place at 9 p.m. on Saturday, September 24, kicking off a 70-day program of special events and brand experiences across the globe.

Billed under the tagline “Extraordinary Forever,” the brand’s larger 70th-anniversary fete has much more to offer. Among the commemorative activations, the imprint is preparing to introduce seven reinterpretations of its revered Maya jacket from some of fashion’s finest talents, including Thom Browne, Hiroshi Fujiwara, Rick Owens, Pierpaolo Piccioli, Francesco Ragazzi, Giambattista Valli and Pharrell Williams. Each new silhouette will arrive in one-by-one drops beginning October 15.

Brad Pitt announced his very own genderless skincare line, dubbed Le Domaine, revealing a slate of products made with an unexpected ingredient — grapes — from his vineyard property Château Miraval.

In an interview with Vogue, the 58-year-old multihyphenate promised that the brand offers a new “science-meets-nature line of genderless skincare essentials.” Developed in partnership with the Perrin family, the innovative line prides itself on utilizing grape-based antioxidants — specifically, the GSM10 — to differentiate its Cleansing Emulsion, Serum, Cream and Fluid Cream products. Allegedly, the exclusive molecule helps with aging and acts as a powerful antidote to oxidative stress.

On Wednesday, Nina Ricci appointed Harris Reed as its new creative director. The path-forging, 26-year-old visionary, known most notably for fashioning the likes of Harry Styles, Iman and Lil Nas X, will join the House as its youngest-ever lead designer. Notably, Reed will show his first collection for the label in early 2023.

“I am honored to be joining the house of Nina Ricci, with its treasure chest full of glamour, history and power ready to be explored. I am truly excited to challenge the landscape of what femininity means across fashion and beauty in such an iconic house,” Reed shared in a statement.

The announcement follows the departure of Nina Ricci’s previous creative directors, Lisi Herrebrugh and Rushemy Botter, in January.

The Most Memorable Moments From London Fashion Week S/S'23

There’s more to London Fashion Week than clothes. It’s about the experiences brands create, the memories you take from shows that stick inside your brand for future inspiration, the moments you share with friends, and the artistic visions that go on to dictate trends once they filter into the more accessible realms of fashion. With this comes a number of breathtaking occasions – sometimes the spaces are enough to conjure emotions, other times it’s the soundtrack that takes you back to a rave or leaves you nostalgic for your youth. Elsewhere, scents permeate the dramatic spaces to further evoke the designer’s attitude for that collection, and the same goes for lighting, set design and everything in between.

At LFW SS23, the designers seemed committed to this cause more than ever. There were more shows hosted outside of typical venues (like the Old Selfridges Hotel), with many opting for unconventional spaces like a casino arcade, abandoned hotel mansions, sports centers, third floor car park basements, community gardens, historic court houses, opulent landmarks and fashion’s favorite space, the disused warehouse aesthetic.

Now that the week has come to a close, Hypebeast looks back to recall and highlight some of its favorite moments. Note, if you’re looking for show coverage or trends, this is not the place. Instead, we want to spotlight the events that made us feel a certain kind of way.

JW Anderson’s Arcade Takeover

For one of the most intimate runways of the season, Jonathan Anderson put on a casino crusade by hosting his show inside the Las Vegas Arcade in London’s Soho. The bright neon lights that decorate the streets outside were emulated inside, with slot machines and big-winning games shining their intoxicating glimmer onto the makeshift catwalk. As a result, energy was pumping in the room before we’d even seen the clothes, in turn gearing us up for one of the standout shows of the season: it wasn’t just computers decking the halls, as clothes were adorned with Getty stock images, noughties keyboard keys and selfie-inspiring mirror ball orb dresses.

Simone Rocha’s Menswear Debut

Concluding with the largest round of applause and the loudest cheers of the week, Simone Rocha’s foray into menswear was nothing short of a spectacle. Not only did she deliver an introspective array of designs across the board, but she also managed to usher in her aesthetic into a signature collection of men’s designs; clothes that introduced a softer side to the male wardrobe while still sticking to traditional identities. Alongside the frills, folds and ruffles were aviation-inspired looks bolstered by ruching, bibs and jackets that billowed and buckled across the body, and a collection of shoes that have gone largely unnoticed thanks to the collection’s dominance. However, these shoes – ranging from black strappy sandals sporting pearl-constructed flowers to brogues sitting atop high-shine rubber soles and sneakers that crossed into the world of tartan check ballet flats – were equal stars of the show.

Dilara Fındıkoğlu’s Stiletto Soundtrack

Runways are usually pumping with big house tracks and techno undertones, but this wasn’t the case for Dilara Fındıkoğlu. Instead, silence was met by a soundtrack of heels hitting the dilapidated wooden floors of a £23M 1860’s former hotel, served alongside the jingle of bells on said shoes. Divided into four rooms, audible gasps from the front row could be heard inside the eerily quiet building, creating anticipation for what was to come around the corner. Each look shocked and incited awe in their own ways, but the tension of a model marginally missing a hole in the floor, or dresses catching on loose floorboards and ripping, made for one of the most skin-crawling, emotional, uncomfortable, and yet somehow addictively watchable shows of the week.

Chopova Lowena’s Punk Chaos

On the contrary, Chopova Lowena’s debut physical runway show served punk chaos energy. It was the right tactic for the emerging brand, as the crowd could not stop smiling throughout this cathartic display of teenage angst and stroppy Y2K no-nonsense collection. Hypebeast has documented the clothes numerous times, but as Chopova Lowena’s runway showed, the atmosphere isn’t limited to just looks. Instead, a show can be used as a way to conjure thoughts and feelings, to create a tone and comment on society, particularly counting the last few years which left many of us wanting to scream out with a burst of creativity.

S.S. Daley’s Storytime

Steven Stokey-Daley has become renowned for his play-like fashion shows, often enlisting talent from the National Youth Theatre to reenact moments in our history, and for SS23, Daley looked towards the love letters between Vita Sackville West and Violet Trefusis. Taking place inside the St. Pancras Renaissance Hotel, the Liverpudlian designer created a garden based on Sackville West’s own which saw a diverse cast of actors-turned-models don the designer’s latest whimsical collection. Shirts floated alongside silky trousers and wore bouquets on them, floral displays decorated hats, and knitwear sported classic depictions of the British countryside like plates that would grace your grandparents’ pantry. Working alongside the clothes was the story itself, a love story that was just as beautiful as the collection.

Molly Goddard’s Cowboy Boots

Molly Goddard gave us everything we expected – tulle, taffeta, volume and sophistication, all injected with a sense of quirk and fun thanks to her poppy color palette. However, paired with almost every look was the designer’s footwear, this season offering cowboy boots and ballet pumps that were also informed by the Wild West. In true Goddard style, the boots were both traditional and revolutionary, as a leather construction sported western motifs alongside love heart patches in bold tones of blue, red, and yellow contrasting with tan and black bases. Like Rocha’s sneakers, these boots were some of the best in-house footwear offerings of the season.

Halpern’s Barbie Collaboration

If you’re not familiar with Halpern, we’ll forgive you. Founded by Michael Halpern, the brand celebrates hyper-femininity and does so with sparkle and retro glamor. This was the case for Halpern SS23, which took over the 16th century Royal Exchange building in Bank, London, with a collection that brought boogie wonderland pant suits covered in sequins onto the runway alongside a collaboration with Barbie. Suddenly, the sensual leopard print looks were swapped out for bouncy hair, sequin bodysuits, barely-there veils and pink branded bags, pink latex gloves, and a sense of disco fever.