Maison Margiela for Women | Designer Fashion | FARFETCH
Part of Margiela’s right amount of wrong and one of his most requested vintage collections, is seen in his infamous play with proportions. The ingenuity of his 2000 Oversize collection, size 78 IT, isn’t just in how he reworked massive traditional shapes with scientific precision, but also in the details on the fringe of the collection. Literally, the fringes were a visually epic example of how Margiela consistently challenged fashion’s preconceived notions of style and beauty.
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Bella Freud – Luxury Brands for Women – Farfetch
Exuding insouciant cool, Alexa Chung wore hers with a brocade Céline skirt and flats, the moment Bella Freud credits with making Je T’aime Jane ‘into a thing’. Emma Watson and Rosie Huntington Whiteley are also Birkin fans.
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Maison Margiela for Women | Designer Fashion | FARFETCH
Tabi boots and shoes came in all shapes and sizes, creating a cult loyal following akin to Rick Owen’s Geobasket trainers with all the codes and tropes that unite its members. Obviously Margiela didn’t create the tabi, but he definitely owns it. Since it first walked down the runway in 1989 Margiela’s Tabi design has never been copied. Twenty-eight years later vintage Tabis are hard to find and in high demand. And the more distressed the better. But there’s more to Margiela’s shoes than the Tabi
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Sonia Rykiel – Luxury Brands for Women – Farfetch
Paris in 1968 was a fun place to be, and if your name was Sonia Rykiel, it was especially groovy. “1968 was the beginning of the hippie movement in fashion…It was not necessary to be always dressed up. You could be dressed the way you wanted – it was absolute freedom.” With the spirit of a generation beneath her wings, Rykiel opened her first boutique in the bohemian heart of Paris, Saint-Germain-des-Prés on the Left Bank. Cool young things gravitated to the store, attracted by the gamine of
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Bella Freud fans, Cara and Poppy Delevingne, husband and wife Aaron and Sam Taylor-Johnson (no word on if either of the duos share theirs), Suki Waterhouse, Adwoa Aboah and, a fitting tribute to the musical origins of the design, Keith Richards.
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Bella Freud – Luxury Brands for Women – Farfetch
Kate Moss put Bella Freud on the map, and where Moss goes, others follow (Erin O’Conner and Poppy Delevingne have also pledged their allegiance to the beat poet – and to Freud).
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Bella Freud – Luxury Brands for Women – Farfetch
Dakota Johnson, Amanda Harlech, Rebecca Hall and, yes, Alexa Chung has one of these Bella Freud 'The Last Poets' jumpers too.
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Bella Freud – Luxury Brands for Women – Farfetch
One of the favourite classics Bella Freud returns to again and again. Laura Bailey also has one.
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Sonia Rykiel – Luxury Brands for Women – Farfetch
In the age of Instagram, slogans in fashion have become ubiquitous , but in the ‘70s saying it on your sweater was seriously new. Imagine the hype when Sonia launched her ‘sensuous’ sweater in 1971. This bold move earned her the title ‘Queen of Knits’ thanks to a very favorable write up in style bulletin WWD the following year.
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Sonia Rykiel – Luxury Brands for Women – Farfetch
Art imitated life in 1994 when Sonia Rykiel made a cameo appearance in Robert Altman's film about Paris fashion week, Prêt-à-Porter. Altman was actually inspired to make the movie after attending one of Rykiel’s fashion shows, and the one of the main characters Simone Lowenthal (played by Anouk Aimee) was based on her.
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Sonia Rykiel – Luxury Brands for Women – Farfetch
Moments That Made Sonia Rykiel. It seems crazy but all it took to kickstart Sonia Rykiel’s covetable career in fashion was a simple sweater. Picture this, it’s1962 and flame haired, heavily pregnant, 30-year-old Rykiel couldn’t find anything to wear that was up to her exacting sartorial standards. Her then-husband ran a fashion boutique, so she called up his contacts at an Italian factory and asked them to make her a tight, ribbed stretch knit jumper.
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Maison Margiela for Women | Designer Fashion | FARFETCH
The white lab coat is synonymous with Margiela, recently given new meaning by Galliano as a sartorial mark of respect to the distance, anonymity and craft that Margiela created; a far cry from Galliano’s Dior rock star status. But it’s Margiela’s Flat collection shown in 1998 that brought the lab coat and 2D clothes to life. In true Margiela style, a demonstration of defiance against the fashion industry’s obsession with a singular view of pretty vs Margiela’s pretty ugly.
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Bella Freud – Luxury Brands for Women – Farfetch
Friend and fan of the label, Loquet founder Laura Bailey, wore her Bella Freud with a Lurex skirt to Freud’s London boutique opening in 2015.
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