Fashion at AWH Magazine follows collections and the labels producing them, from studio sample to store rail. The writing is critical rather than promotional, describing what a garment attempts and whether it succeeds. Best used by readers who approach fashion the way they approach exhibitions, closely and with an opinion.
Cutting cloth at 45 degrees to its weave — the bias — turns fabric from a surface that hangs into one that clings and moves, a technical discovery Madeleine Vionnet turned into a language in the 1920s and 1930s.
In France the phrase is not praise but a status renewed each year by ministerial commission — and its unglamorous thresholds, from twenty employees to twenty-five day and evening looks, quietly define what counts as a couturier's body of work.