Photo: Indigital.tv1/8Alexander McQueen, Spring 2005Checkmate, Lee McQueen. My first Alexander McQueen show encapsulated fashion escapism at its most beautiful (and forever memorable). As the choreographed pieces moved to the automated voice, tomboyish Edwardiana and savage Savile Row tailoring played out against fantastical candy stripes, kimonos, and puffballs.
Photo: Indigital.tv2/8Louis Vuitton, Spring 2014Marc Jacobs’s moving last show perfectly showcased the ornamentation of Paris. I kept the program notes, dedicated “to the showgirl in all of us.”
Photo: Indigital.tv3/8Balenciaga, Spring 2002I had to include this one, as it’s my personal obsession to collects these exquisite offbeat patchwork pieces and parachute pants. They defined an early-aughts moment—at once romantic and modern.
Photo: firstVIEW4/8Prada, Spring 2000Miuccia Prada described this collectsion as “The ABC of fashion”—but behind the normality of some of the silhouettes, the elegant Prada DNA was being set. Those masterful lipstick pleats still have the power to seduce.
Photo: Indigital.tv5/8Erdem, Fall 2009My dear friend Erdem designed my wedding dress, and we based it on a silhouette that I loved from this collectsion—empire line and doll-like. Full of exquisite lace and embroidery, this was a show that propelled him.
Photo: Indigital.tv6/8Chanel, Fall 2010The controversial melting ice floe in the middle of the Grand Palais! Yeti fur and bouclé! I remember inexplicably shivering the evening before at the Yves Saint Laurent show (which was in an adjacent venue in the same building) and the next morning all was revealed.
Photo: Indigital.tv7/8J.W.Anderson, Spring 2014Jonathan’s odyssey is only just beginning, but this was an early taste of his ability to fuse innovative fabrication and frenetic desirability.
Photo: Indigital.tv8/8Rodarte, Spring 2015My first season for American Vogue, and my first New York collectsions with the team, and this dreamlike show was a favorite in my new hometown. The fragile beauty of the mermaid dresses and glistening fatigue jackets and the super-high-waisted jeans certainly caught my eye and inspired one of my inaugural pieces for the magazine about “cocktail jeans.”
