What's in fashion this week? Celine returns to the City of Angels, Kaia Gerber stars in a new campaign, and more fashion moments you may have missed from the week.
Celine launches teaser for upcoming Winter 23 show
Celine officially returns to the runway next month with Celine at The Wiltern, the Women’s Winter 2023 show, which will be held in Los Angeles, California, on December 8, 2022. This follows previous seasons revealed through runway films, including Summer 23 just released, and marks a return to the city for Hedi Slimane, who spent almost a decade in California.
Alexander McQueen debuts the Slash Bag campaign featuring Kaia Gerber
The juxtaposition between humanity and technology defines the Alexander McQueen campaign for The Slash bag. Featuring Kaia Gerber, and directed by Glen Luchford, the campaign explores human emotion within a futuristic landscape. New for the Spring Summer 2023 women’s pre-collection, The Slash bag carries many of the signatures the house is known for and features the iconic McQueen Knuckle hardware and skull motif. Crafted in padded leather, the sharply cut, slashed body is inspired by the house’s sliced and slashed tailoring.
Van Cleef & Arpels wins the Innovation Prize & the Mechanical Clock Award
The Lady Arpels Heures Florales Cerisier watch from Van Cleef & Arpels won the prestigious Innovation Prize at the Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève 2022. This award is dedicated for “the best competing timepiece offering an innovative vision of time measurement and/or opening up new development pathways for the watchmaking art”. In a rose gold case set with diamonds, watchmaking, jewelry craftmanship and artistic savoir-faire come together to create a poetic scene.
The Fontaine aux Oiseaux automaton by Van Cleef & Arpels won the prestigious Mechanical Clock Prize at the Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève 2022. This award is dedicated for “mechanical time-measuring instruments, such as longcase clocks or table clocks”. On this Extraordinary Object, watchmaking, jewelry and art craftsmenships skills come together to arouse a sense of wonder.
Wynn Hamlyn launches Resort 23
First revealed at AAFW 2022, where New Zealand-based designer Wynn Hamlyn staged an offsite show in a gritty underground tunnel beneath Central Station, Sydney, for the brand's Resort 23 collection. Designer Wynn Crawshaw demonstrated renowned ability to unveil the newness we crave, with a restrained elegance to create timeless appeal through the collection, which is finally available to shop online and in store in the Auckland flagsip.
“Wynn Hamlyn has established a very much loyal and valued presence in Australia during the past two years - it really has become our second home, and a place we hold close to our hearts. The support from our community including consumers and media has been unwavering. Our decision to participate at AAFW felt 100% organic, and it will provide the label with an opportunity to solidify and celebrate its valued presence within the Australian market. We are also thrilled to reintroduce Menswear into the collection”, Crawshaw said of the show.
Max Mara opens its new flagship store in Tokyo
Designed by Andrea Tognon Architecture, it’s the second store in the luxury area of Omotesando and Aoyama.
With a surface of 400 square meters, the tower perfectly embodies the city's ever-evolving fight against gravity. The streamlined structure soars toward the sky like an imposing pagoda, upholding pergola-like floor slabs clad in brushed metal with a cloudy finish, blending into the sky.
The interior design features embrace a lightness and a contemporary allure. Flooring in red travertine recalling italianism and monumental architecture with cement and carpet carefully laid out in alternating geometric patterns, create surfaces rich in contrast, warm and welcoming. A dynamic space, designed to host product focuses, which evolves constantly, providing a
new engaging shopping experience.
