For reigning Saint Laurent creative director Anthony Vaccarello, the brand’s signature tuxedo is a sacred obsession – and rightly so. Keng Yang Shuen reports on the iconicism and enduring relevance of Le Smoking.

Fashion and beauty come together seamlessly to form a power duo at Seoul Fashion Week.

If Clare Waight Keller’s debut ready towear collection for Givenchy has been singled out for erring too much on the safe side, then her first haute couture outing for the House—poetic, beautiful and nuanced in its expression of femininity and romanticism—proved she has got more tricks up her sleeves.

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From 26 January 2017, the luxury headquarters of Fendi in Rome’s Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana will play host to Giuseppe Penone’s latest exhibition

Reminiscing about his earliest memory of Paris fashion week, Kenneth Goh talks about how mobile technology has changed the way we see fashion forever.

Mention Japanese designers, and Comme des Garçons’ Rei Kawakubo, Yohji Yamamoto, Issey Miyake and Kenzo Takada immediately come to mind. These originals blazed a trail through Paris with their radical clothes in the ’80s. But in recent years, another crop of Japanese designers are proving that Nippon’s invasion on the runways didn’t stop with Kawakubo and gang. Sacai’s Chitose Abe the pack with column inches dedicated to her collections that meld textures, proportions and silhouettes. For pre-fall 2016, Abe revamped the utilitarian aesthetic with ingenuity: Her flare pants were cinched at the thighs with big buckled straps, while a top-and-skirt combo came patched from distressed denim that looked like it story to tell with every fray. A cornerstone of Abe’s works are her outerwear propositions: She lace to craft a crowd-pleasing officer coat and create a panel on a quilted bomber jacket.

Is Raf Simons heading over to Calvin Klein? After all, both Francisco Costa and Italo Zucchelli have stepped down from their roles as Creative Directors of Calvin Klein. Their exit is part of the brand’s move to bring together its lines under a singular voice, and Simons is rumoured to be the frontrunner to unify the brand. “This creative strategy marks the beginning of another significant chapter in Calvin Klein’s brand legacy since Mr Klein’s retirement,” explained Chief Executive Officer Steve Shiffman. Costa joined in 2001 and supercharged its womenswear line with sleekness; Zucchelli refined the sportswear aesthetic with his men’s collections during his 12 years at the helm.

From Gucci to Givenchy, designers are making a strong case for you to embrace logos once again.

Burberry's groundbreaking announcement that it will collapse its men’s and women’s runway shows to align them with the respective seasons is a reaction to consumers’ heightened need for immediacy.

Earn your stripes.