Designers is the profile archive of AWH Magazine: reported pieces made from studio visits, interviews and the collaborators who work alongside a designer. Subjects range from first collections to houses changing hands. Useful for readers who want to know how a garment was arrived at, not only who signed it.
A guide to what actually distinguishes a rising talent from a well-funded launch — and how to watch the new generation without a press release doing the watching for you.
Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons dropped trousers and dresses entirely. Here is how their method translates into everyday dressing.
Tailoring loosened, red sharpened, and frog closures walked out of the archive. The pavement was the more interesting runway this season.
A single dress makes a long journey before anyone photographs it. Here is the route it travels, from first drawing to final fitting.
Before the logo, before the label, there is the join — and the houses that sew their names into it.
Working in Paris from 1912 to 1940, Vionnet built her house on one technical argument — cloth cut across its grain drapes instead of hangs — and then, a decade into her fame, quietly cut against her own signature.