Top Fashion Shows
Tim Blanks’ Top Fashion Shows of All-Time: Tom Ford's Yves Saint Laurent Finale, March 7, 2004
BoF's editor-at-large travels back to a runway that left him misty-eyed. Ford may have claimed he’d blocked out his Saint Laurent years, but he also acknowledged some of his best collections were there. And this was his best.
Tim Blanks’ Top Fashion Shows of All-Time: Tom Ford's Yves Saint Laurent Finale, March 7, 2004
BoF's editor-at-large travels back to a runway that left him misty-eyed. Ford may have claimed he’d blocked out his Saint Laurent years, but he also acknowledged some of his best collections were there. And this was his best.
Tim Blanks’ Top Fashion Shows of All-Time: Chanel Haute Couture, January 22, 2013
BoF's editor-at-large travels back to Karl Lagerfeld’s Shakespearean Fairyland, when he transformed the Grand Palais into a forest right out of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.'
Tim Blanks’ Top Fashion Shows of All-Time: Chanel Haute Couture, January 22, 2013
BoF's editor-at-large travels back to Karl Lagerfeld’s Shakespearean Fairyland, when he transformed the Grand Palais into a forest right out of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.'
Tim Blanks’ Top Fashion Shows of All-Time: Romeo Gigli Spring/Summer 1990
BoF's editor-at-large travels back in time to the Italian designer's standing ovation-worthy Paris debut, which took place at the peak of his influence.
Tim Blanks’ Top Fashion Shows of All-Time: Romeo Gigli Spring/Summer 1990
BoF's editor-at-large travels back in time to the Italian designer's standing ovation-worthy Paris debut, which took place at the peak of his influence.
Tim Blanks’ Top Fashion Shows of All-Time: Marc Jacobs Spring/Summer 2013
BoF’s Editor-at-Large travels back in time to the designer’s Edie Sedgwick-inflected Spring 2013 show which reimagined proper little misses from the early 60s in a parade of bizarre propriety.
Tim Blanks’ Top Fashion Shows of All-Time: Marc Jacobs Spring/Summer 2013
BoF’s Editor-at-Large travels back in time to the designer’s Edie Sedgwick-inflected Spring 2013 show which reimagined proper little misses from the early 60s in a parade of bizarre propriety.
Tim Blanks’ Top Fashion Shows of All-Time: Junya Watanabe Men's Autumn/Winter 2006
BoF’s Editor-at-Large connects the dots between the designer’s Spring/Summer 2021 collection and a mesmerising 2006 meditation on ‘Taxi Driver’ anti-hero Travis Bickle, which probed the heart of America’s darkness.
Tim Blanks’ Top Fashion Shows of All-Time: Junya Watanabe Men's Autumn/Winter 2006
BoF’s Editor-at-Large connects the dots between the designer’s Spring/Summer 2021 collection and a mesmerising 2006 meditation on ‘Taxi Driver’ anti-hero Travis Bickle, which probed the heart of America’s darkness.
Tim Blanks’ Top Fashion Shows of All-Time: Alexander McQueen Spring/Summer 1998
Under a golden rain, the miraculous finale to McQueen’s Spring 1998 presentation was perhaps the most dramatic single moment of Tim Blanks’ 35 years of show-going.
Tim Blanks’ Top Fashion Shows of All-Time: Alexander McQueen Spring/Summer 1998
Under a golden rain, the miraculous finale to McQueen’s Spring 1998 presentation was perhaps the most dramatic single moment of Tim Blanks’ 35 years of show-going.
Tim Blanks’ Top Fashion Shows of All-Time: Versace, Haute Couture Autumn 1997
On July 6, 1997, Gianni Versace showed his new Haute Couture collection at the Ritz in Paris. Nine days later, he was shot dead. The tragic irony was that, even without the events of a week later, Versace’s show felt significant, like we were seeing a bold new direction in the career of a designer who had already reshaped fashion in the 90s.
Tim Blanks’ Top Fashion Shows of All-Time: Versace, Haute Couture Autumn 1997
On July 6, 1997, Gianni Versace showed his new Haute Couture collection at the Ritz in Paris. Nine days later, he was shot dead. The tragic irony was that, even without the events of a week later, Versace’s show felt significant, like we were seeing a bold new direction in the career of a designer who had already reshaped fashion in the 90s.
Tim Blanks’ Top Fashion Shows of All-Time: Dries Van Noten, Spring/Summer 2005
The Belgian designer’s golden anniversary outing underscored the ineffable balance of emotion, intelligence and extravagance that distinguishes his shows.
Tim Blanks’ Top Fashion Shows of All-Time: Dries Van Noten, Spring/Summer 2005
The Belgian designer’s golden anniversary outing underscored the ineffable balance of emotion, intelligence and extravagance that distinguishes his shows.
Tim Blanks’ Top Fashion Shows of All-Time: Yves Saint Laurent, Haute Couture Spring 1988
BoF’s Editor-at-Large revisits his top fashion shows of all time, starting with the first Paris presentation he ever covered, back in the go-go Eighties.
Tim Blanks’ Top Fashion Shows of All-Time: Yves Saint Laurent, Haute Couture Spring 1988
BoF’s Editor-at-Large revisits his top fashion shows of all time, starting with the first Paris presentation he ever covered, back in the go-go Eighties.