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Fashion designer profiles

  • Friday, 23 May, 2025
    HTSI
    For her next act… Dior’s Maria Grazia Chiuri is reopening an abandoned theatre

    The designer and her daughter are restoring Rome’s historic Teatro della Cometa

    Maria Grazia Chiuri (right) and her daughter Rachele Regini at the Teatro della Cometa in Rome
  • Saturday, 10 May, 2025
    Fashion
    The Englishman who invented haute couture

    Charles Frederick Worth was the designer who created fashion as we know it

  • Wednesday, 9 April, 2025
    Fashion
    When American fashion struck out on its own

    A new exhibition and a host of books celebrate the 1940s, the decade when Seventh Avenue declared independence from Parisian couture

  • Monday, 24 March, 2025
    The Art of Fashion: the spring/summer 2025 issue
    Rei Kawakubo: tale of the unexpected

    One of fashion’s most influential figures and founder of Comme des Garçons gives a rare interview

  • Saturday, 8 March, 2025
    InterviewStyle
    Alessandro Michele: ‘Valentino doesn’t have the attitude to be big’

    The former creative director of Gucci on taking the reins of Valentino Garavani’s atelier — and why turning the house into another fashion giant would be a disaster

    A man with long black hair and a multicoloured jumper sits side on next to a white marble fireplace
  • Saturday, 1 March, 2025
    ReviewFashion shows
    At Milan Fashion Week, Versace goes bling and baroque

    Italian labels Tod’s and Versace double down on their house codes

    Women in ornate dresses on the catwalk
  • Saturday, 9 November, 2024
    Building on the legacy of Carolina Herrera

    A compelling new chapter is being written at the fashion brand under designer Wes Gordon and owner Puig 

    A female fashion model in a bright red skirt and white shirt with a bright red floral pattern stands next to a square-jawed young man in a baggy plain black sweater
  • Monday, 28 October, 2024
    Fashion accessories
    The making of a hit loafer

    Jamie Haller’s Tuscan-made shoes have won over stars such as Emily Ratajkowski

    A woman sits in a living room
  • Wednesday, 11 September, 2024
    FT SeriesHTSI autumn fashion special 2024
    How Milan became the centre of a new fashion cool

    At Bally, Moschino and Tod’s, designers are putting Italy’s style capital back on the map

    Backstage at Moschino’s AW24 show
  • Saturday, 24 August, 2024
    Menswear
    How I made my own ‘Chanel’ jackets

    An original pattern inspired some personal creations at a fraction of the cost of the real thing

    A middle-aged man wearing a thick plaid woollen tweed collarless jacket sitting in a chair by large windows looking out on to foliage
  • Wednesday, 21 August, 2024
    The Art of FashionThe Art of Fashion: the Expressive issue
    Courrèges spices up the space age

    Artistic director Nicolas Di Felice and CEO Adrien Da Maia on revitalising the French label while retaining ‘a sense of freedom’

  • Monday, 5 August, 2024
    InterviewFashion
    One of Scandinavia’s buzziest fashion brands is ready to scale

    Ahead of fashion label Rotate’s first store opening, its parent group’s chief executive talks future growth and acquisitions

  • Monday, 17 June, 2024
    The Art of FashionThe Art of Fashion: the Jewellery issue
    Keeping the piece: six creatives’ precious mementos

    Artists and designers share the jewellery pieces that they treasure the most

    Miminat Shodeinde with her memento ring, which is shaped like a sheet of crumbled paper
  • Saturday, 15 June, 2024
    InterviewFashion
    The life, times and clothes of Naomi Campbell

    The fashion icon talks about becoming the first model to be honoured with a retrospective at the V&A

  • Saturday, 8 June, 2024
    InterviewStyle
    The Fendis on family, fragrance and future direction

    Mother and daughter join artistic director Kim Jones to talk about the forging of a ‘new chapter’ at the luxury powerhouse

    Two women in dark jackets and trousers next to a man with leather jacket and cream trousers standing on a patterned tiled floor. Behind them is a cream-coloured wall
  • Tuesday, 26 March, 2024
    The Art of FashionThe Art of Fashion: the Individuality issue
    Five stylish people who do glamour on their own terms

    While others follow the crowd, these creative figures have forged a strong personal look

    A series of portraits side by side featuring five different people, including a woman with a gold necklace, a man in a beanie, an older woman in a sequined outfit, a person with curly hair, and a woman in sunglasses and a strapless dress
  • Monday, 25 March, 2024
    Fashion
    How Walter Albini transformed Italian fashion

    The ready-to-wear pioneer is being honoured with an exhibition in Prato

    Male and female models wearing cowboy-style hats, safari suits or trousers tucked in boots march towards the camera
  • Friday, 8 March, 2024
    FT SeriesHTSI spring menswear special 2024
    The psychedelic reinvention of Patrick Cox

    What happened when the shoe designer swapped his wild London days for a hill in Ibiza? He found ‘the god within’

    Patrick Cox in the garden of his Ibiza casita, wearing his new line, Doors of Perception
  • Tuesday, 13 February, 2024
    InterviewFashion
    Designer Giles Deacon: ‘I never wanted a billion-dollar business’

    A shift to couture a decade ago has proved a masterstroke, attracting a stellar list of clients and off-the-wall collaborations

    Giles Deacon in light brown suit sits on a director’s chair in a studio, with three outfits on mannequins behind him
  • Monday, 12 February, 2024
    HTSI
    For sale: a treasure trove of rare British textiles

    Fashion designer Georgina von Etzdorf, who dressed Mick Jagger and David Bowie, is parting with her kaleidoscopic wares 

    GvE&Co Dragons print, 1984
  • Friday, 19 January, 2024
    Olivier Rousteing talks glamour and gold at Balmain menswear

    After a four-year hiatus, the designer is staging a major men’s catwalk show

    A man in a black hat and large black blazer with white polka-dots
  • Wednesday, 11 October, 2023
    Fashion
    British-made women’s suits that won’t break the bank

    With Kipper Club, stylist Sarah Corbett-Winder parlays her penchant for glamorous maximalism into mid-priced tailoring

    A woman in a beige suit a glasses leans against the wall of a cafe
  • Friday, 7 July, 2023
    Watches & Jewellery
    Fashion and design kudos makes Milan a magnet for jewellers

    Luxury brands are not only expanding their retail presence in the city but are also drawing on the region’s artisanal traditions

    People with umbrellas on a rainy day walk past a huge signboard of Gucci
  • Wednesday, 21 June, 2023
    The Art of Fashion
    The Art of Fashion: Jewellery 2023

    Our annual look at the glistening world of jewellery includes an interview with Cartier’s creative director Jacqueline Karachi, a personal reflection on why cufflinks are still meaningful and glimpses into the working methods of emerging and established designers

    female model wearing a white dress and a necklace
  • Wednesday, 21 June, 2023
    The Art of FashionThe Art of Fashion: Jewellery 2023
    The designers modernising men’s jewellery

    Meet the emerging designers challenging tradition

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