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The shows! The books! The exhibitions! Diaries at the ready — it’s going to be a chic 2023, says Isobel Van Dyke

Evening Standard

After a chaotic 2022, Susie Lau recommends a restful Christmas

After such a zig-zagging year, Susie Lau is looking forward to the special kind of quiet that only Christmas can bring

Evening Standard

Prada charts line of business succession, tapping new CEO

The Prada fashion house has begun charting a line of succession on its business side by tapping a former LVMH executive as its next CEO

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Raf Simons to close – a fashion marketing expert explains how the brand lost relevance

Surviving 27 years in the competitive and fast-changing world of fashion is an accomplishment many brands only dream of. Raf Simons weathered the 2007-08 financial crisis, Brexit and the COVID pandemic with his eponymous label, but in November he announced that the SS23 line would be its last.

The Conversation

Thank you, Raf Simons — a look back at nearly thirty years of design genius

As the Belgian designer announces he will close his eponymous label after 27 years, Chloe Street looks back at his greatest moments

Evening Standard

‘Always incredible, always inspiring’: Raf Simon closes fashion label after three decades

‘The reason I fell in love with fashion,’ wrote one fan of the Belgian designer

The Independent UK

Raf Simons to close fashion label after nearly three decades

Speculation that Belgian designer may be closing brand due to tough financial market and to focus on role at Prada

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Best luxury throw blankets for winter 2022 in wool, cable knit and more

Wrap up warm like a designer burrito

Evening Standard

Raf Simons makes a case for neon long johns, fishnets and rompers at debut London show

The Belgian fashion designer took over Printwaorks and held a one-off rave style show during Frieze week

Evening Standard

The (slightly delayed) arrival of Raf Simons

As his first-ever show in the capital — dramatically rescheduled after the Queen’s death — arrives in town this week, the designer talks to Mahoro Seward about how the city’s energy has always inspired him

Evening Standard

Oh the irony — Prada is dead wrong about creases

It is all too rarely that I get to be ahead of a Prada designer in terms of fashion, but on the important trend of the season I was on it years before Raf Simons. At the Prada show in Paris last week, he had creases and wrinkles in clothes…

Evening Standard

Prada Plays With Contrasts at Milan Fashion Week Show

Simplicity and contrasts were the main themes at the Prada catwalk show in Milan on Thursday, with the Italian luxury label stripping off "unnecessary complication" in its latest womenswear collection. Designers Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons opened the Spring/Summer 2023 show with sharp grey looks including pointy-collared shirts, slim-fit trousers…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Prada lets it rip with ‘gestures of error’ at Milan fashion week

Prada and Raf Simons added pre-lived defects to their immaculate simplicity, with abstract filmic backdrops by Nicolas Winding Refn

The Guardian - UK

Prada, Max Mara back to pre-pandemic splendor in Milan

After several seasons affected by coronavirus restrictions, Milan Fashion Week is back to its pre-pandemic splendor

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London Fashion Week must be fabulous, it’s what HM would want

At the start of this week, I began noticing the twice-yearly influx of models hanging around the lobby of a boutique hotel I live next door to. The appearance of these astonishing looking, svelte and limber figures is the first real evidence London Fashion Week is upon us. It’s five…

The Independent UK

‘The show must go on’: Inside the last-minute chaos of a London Fashion Week in mourning

As the Queen’s death casts a dark shadow over the season and prompts last-minute cancellations, Olivia Petter examines what fashion fans can expect from an ill-timed LFW

The Guardian - UK

What links Prada to fabulous chips via Frank Ocean’s lab-grown diamonds?

With the big four fashion weeks coming up, we’re on a treasure hunt that leads from Raf Simons to London’s coolest canteen

Evening Standard

Five times fashion paid homage to Stanley Kubrick

As Gucci unveils its latest campaign based on the work of the legendary director, we take a look back at key Kubrick-inspired fashion moments

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The Guardian - UK

August design news: Raf Simons’ furniture and e-waste jewellery

London Design Festival preview, an intimate book about Keith Haring and the Tseng siblings, artists who want to heal the world

Bangkok Post

Prada's pragmatic aesthetics shines in new collection

Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons first worked together on the spring/summer 2021 collection, and their synergy reverberates even more in Prada's autumn/winter 2022 collection.

Evening Standard

London Fashion Week to return with biggest names in years

Raf Simons, Burberry and JW Anderson are all set to show in September

The Independent UK

Burberry and Raf Simons among big names to join 2022 London Fashion Week line up

Richard Quinn and Erdem will also show new collections at the September event

The Guardian - UK

Jovial Jeff Goldblum steals Prada’s spring/summer 2023 show

Actor was one of several celebrities in front row for parade of familiar yet trendsetting garments

Asharq Al-Awsat

Jeff Goldblum, Kyle MacLachlan Bookend Prada Menswear Show

Jeff Goldblum infused Milan Fashion Week with some levity on Sunday as he shimmied down the Prada runway in a dark overcoat that cast a dramatic silhouette. The latest menswear collection in the two-year-old collaboration between Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons as co-creative directors was at once elemental and celebratory,…

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