Michael Philouze

Teaming up with Berlin’s Reference Festival, Selfridges’s Superfutures features 13 spectacles co-curated by Agnes Gryczkowska and Reference Studio’s founder Mumi Haiati.

“Can you go into a theater with your community and watch this darkness play out,” says director Sam Gold. Can you “let Shakespeare help you?”

After a year of restrictions, it’s only natural that men’s beauty, alongside pretty much everything else, would want to act in rebellion.

Although the ongoing men’s spring 2021 season was short on resources that would allow designers to reach their full creative potential and dreams, credit is due to those that buckled down during a time of great timult. Designers worked tirelessly to rise to the challenges of the day and showed us new ways to connect with fashion, whether that was through animations, virtual reality, or elevated films. They did so with both with an awareness of the times and with the tireless support of fashion o…

This story is part of a series, Past/Present, highlighting images and articles from Vogue that have personal significance to our editors. Some of Vogue’s editorials invite readers to enter into a fantastical, distant world—and during this pandemic, we all need a little bit of escapism. I think that “Wildest Dreams,” a story from 2019, offers a magical narrative that can help ease the mind during these uncertain times. Looking back at the lush, cinematic quality of this sitting brings me both ple…

Paris’s spring 2020 week of couture shows proves that couture’s high level of craftsmanship never becomes less intriguing. To witness these shows in person is a rare experience filled with fantasy and reverence, and to understand the technical components—the precise, custom-fitting garments that are completely hand-sewn by exalted sewers—only further elicits awe. This season, sustainability has evolved from a groundbreaking practice to being a part of fashion’s standard criteria. What used to be…

Vogue’s menswear editor reflects on a spectacular season of menswear shows in the City of Light.

Milan’s most popular designers have long followed in the tradition of precise tailoring and bourgeois aesthetics, but the recent fall 2020 men’s shows tell a different story thanks to a band of younger designers ready to shake things up. They are a group mostly supported by the ever-faithful Camera Della Moda, who challenge their predecessors by pushing back on what is seen as acceptable. From Numero 00 to Marco de Vincenzo, these emerging brands continue to knock down the tall walls of classic…

Romance, beauty, and theatrics are the three elements that are at the core of Parisian designers. After all, who executes Paris menswear shows better than the designers who call the City of Light home? In my last Paris Fashion Week diary, the grand houses hailed supreme. This season, the city’s designers took their expertise to places far from home: Anthony Vaccarello brought his Saint Laurent collection to a beach in Malibu; Clare Waight Keller showed Givenchy in the gardens of the Villa Palmie…

Shanghai Fashion Week founded by Xiaolei Lv just finished but the city hosted a global audience for a six-day run featuring innovative designers including Pronounce, Wan Hung, and Chen Peng who demonstrated how the city has progressed aesthetically. “I was in for a journey of what would turn out to be one exquisite discovery after another,” said Vogue’s Menswear Editor Michael Philouze, who added, “Shanghai is a new hub of creativity and imagination.” Philouze was equipped with his phone and cam…