Top 10 Shows of Autumn/Winter 2018

LONDON, United Kingdom — Another fashion month has drawn to a close. Here, BoF picks the top ten shows of the Autumn/Winter 2018 season.

1. Undercover — designed by Jun Takahashi, PFW

Undercover Autumn/Winter 2018 | Source: InDigital

View CollectionThe collection was an extraordinary, fetishistic fashion journey into the depths of the American teen psyche as idealised by a Japanese outsider.

2. Alexander McQueen — designed by Sarah Burton, PFW

Alexander McQueen Autumn/Winter 2018 | Source: InDigital

View CollectionThe attention to detail, breadth of vision and grasp of the mood of the moment combined to create a fashion force of nature.

3. Sacai — designed by Chitose Abe, PFW

Sacai Autumn/Winter 2018 | Source: InDigital

View CollectionChitose Abe elevated her mission of hybridisation to new heights, bringing a sly wit that tricked the eye with deliberate mismatches.

4. Gucci — designed by Alessandro Michele, MFW

Gucci Autumn/Winter 2018 | Source: InDigital

View CollectionIt was Alessandro Michele’s most confounding excursion yet, one that made connections between the distant past, troubled present and a future in which the designer insists on optimism.

5. Calvin Klein — designed by Raf Simons, NYFW

Calvin Klein Autumn/Winter 2018 | Source: InDigital

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Raf Simons sounded a hopeful note while once again proving his mastery of an unsettling mood of menace. The threat risk was high.

6. Versace — designed by Donatella Versace, MFW

Versace Autumn/Winter 2018 | Source: InDigital

View CollectionColour and drape united the disparate strands on display — tartan armies, African graphism — and suggested new paths of exploration for the house.

7. Balenciaga — designed by Demna Gvasalia, PFW

Balenciaga Autumn/Winter 2018 | Source: InDigital

View CollectionDemna Gvasalia has a refreshing imperturbable point of view. If this collection is any indication, he will only find more interesting ways to exercise it.

8. Erdem — designed by Erdem Moralioglu, LFW

Erdem Autumn/Winter 2018 | Source: InDigital

View CollectionThe designer was practically guaranteed a star collection when he turned to the glamorous life of Adele Astaire for inspiration, bringing a new substance to his world.

9. Loewe — designed by Jonathan Anderson, PFW

Loewe Autumn/Winter 2018 | Source: InDigital

View CollectionThere was a harmony in the alluring, shruggy casualness of the collection — a quality that Jonathan Anderson should be able to take all the way to the bank.

10. Coach — designed by Stuart Vevers, NYFW