Emporio Armani's 30th anniversary sunglasses collection

Emporio Armani 30th anniversary sunglasses

Emporio Armani has released a capsule sunglasses collection to celebrate their 30th anniversary. The vibrant, oversized shades are reminiscent of the 1980s (Emporio Armani was founded in 1981), but the collection's tagline commends the future: "No nostalgia. The message beams at streaming speed towards digital futures. Fashion is play, movement, energy and pleasure." I see ... Read more

Marc by Marc Jacobs boots and the sea

Marc by Marc Jacobs boots

I bought these Marc by Marc Jacobs boots in New York in September. After several years of successive fiascos with ballet flats and my brown brogues still giving me blisters after months of wear, I knew I needed another type of "everyday shoe". I was leaning towards this kind of boots from the start – ... Read more

Elegance in Exile exhibition: Russian expat fashion

Elegance in exile exhibition

Last weekend I took a quick trip to Venice with my family to see the Elegance in Exile: Between fashion and costume, the time of Sergei Diaghilev (L'eleganza in esilio. Tra moda e costume, il tempo di Diaghilev) exhibition at Palazzo Mocenigo. The exhibition portrays the influence of Russian émigrés on fashion, displaying costumes of ... Read more

Why I didn't attend Slovenia Fashion Week

Carine Roitfeld by Tommy Ton

I owe an explanation to many of my Slovenian readers who have been asking me why I haven't published any reports from Slovenia Fashion Week. I wanted to attend fashion week, but I wasn't invited to the shows. I would have loved to cover them for Dressful the same way I reported from events at ... Read more

Hogan by Karl Lagerfeld Fall/Winter 2011/12 jackets

Afef Jnifen in Hogan by Karl Lagerfeld Fall Winter 2011 2012

The city is slowly sinking into depths of winter. In this chilly and monochromatic transitory period, it feels unseemly to wear my retractable winter coat. Despite low enough temperatures, to me, the emergence of long coats in the streets signifies November, Christmas lights they always put up too early, and whimsical atmosphere at the end ... Read more