Top 10 Shows of Spring/Summer 2017

LONDON, United Kingdom — From major 'see now, buy now' shows in New York and London to designer debuts at four major Parisian houses, it was a headline-grabbing season dominated once again by Demna Gvasalia's meteoric ascent. BoF brings you the Top 10 shows of the Spring/Summer 2017.

1. Balenciaga – designed by Demna Gvasalia, PFW

Balenciaga Spring/Summer 2017 | Source: InDigital.tv

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Demna Gvasalia's second women's collection for Balenciaga explored the parallels between couture and fetishism — to dazzling effect.

2. Rick Owens – designed by Rick Owens, PFW

Rick Owens Spring/Summer 2017 | Source: InDigital.tv

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Innocence and experience: those are the poles around which Owens’ work has often rotated, but there was a new purity in the vision he offered this season.

3. Loewe – designed by Jonathan Anderson, PFW

Loewe Spring/Summer 2017 | Source: InDigital.tv

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Jonathan Anderson’s collections are an endlessly fascinating distillation of his ideas about clothes: how to wear them, what they mean and when they mean it.

4. Marc Jacobs – designed by Marc Jacobs, NYFW

Marc Jacobs Spring/Summer 2017 | Source: InDigital.tv

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One thing that is enduringly wonderful about Marc Jacobs is the way he spins his own youthful obsessions into such convincing, contemporary fashion fantasias.

5. Fendi – designed by Karl Lagerfeld, MFW

Fendi Spring/Summer 2017 | Source: InDigital.tv

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The Trevi fountain show revved Fendi: collaborators Silvia Venturini Fendi and Karl Lagerfeld were both feeling a zesty new take on the house.

6. Undercover – designed by Jun Takahashi, PFW

Undercover Spring/Summer 2017 | Source: InDigital.tv

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Takahashi has always been a fiercely ingenious designer, here his ingenuity was subtle and seductive; ludicrously, defiantly cool.

7. Thom Browne – designed by Thom Browne, NYFW

Thom Browne Spring/Summer 2017 | Source: InDigital.tv

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The show that Thom Browne staged this season in New York may have been one of the most extraordinary from a designer who has made a career of plumbing the heights — and depths — of fashion spectacle.

8. Sacai – designed by Chitose Abe, PFW

Sacai Spring/Summer 2017 | Source: InDigital.tv

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Chitose Abe has established an aesthetic that combines romance and hard edges, intelligence and eroticism in a way so unique and ingenious that it constitutes one of the most distinctive design signatures in contemporary fashion.

9. Roksanda – designed by Roksanda Ilincic, LFW

Roksanda Spring/Summer 2017 | Source: InDigital.tv

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What's remarkable about RoksandaIlincic is the way she works with colour: an idiosyncratic, artistic sensibility allows her to mix lustrous, plump hues with poignant delicacy.

10. Versace – designed by Donatella Versace, MFW