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FP RunwayArchive / Designers
The names shaping what comes next.
Profiles, conversations and the ideas behind the collections moving fashion forward.
Designers
Miuccia Prada: The Intelligence of Contradiction
Miuccia Prada made contradiction into a design method. Her fashion can be intellectual and instinctive, severe and playful, historically informed and completely of its moment. It…
Designers
Yohji Yamamoto: Tailoring in the Shadow
Yohji Yamamoto treats black as a beginning rather than an ending. In his hands, it becomes a surface for proportion, texture and movement: a way to make the cut of a coat speak…
Designers
Rei Kawakubo: The Space Between Fashion and Form
Rei Kawakubo does not begin with the question of what a garment should flatter. She begins with what it might disturb: the expected shape of a body, the border between clothing…
Designers
Gianni Versace: The Man Who Defined the 1990s
Few designers shaped the visual language of the 1990s as completely as Gianni Versace. His world was built on gold, colour, exposed skin, classical mythology and unapologetic…
Designers
John Galliano: Fashion as Theatre
John Galliano has always treated fashion as a world that could be invented from scratch. His runways became historical fantasies filled with characters, dramatic silhouettes,…
Designers
Alexander McQueen: Fashion as Beautiful Violence
Alexander McQueen turned fashion shows into performances long before spectacle became an industry standard. Models walked through fire, played human chess, appeared inside glass…