PARIS — Blame it on the high-stamina ath-leisure trend — performance, comfort and easy care were among the watchwords at the recent edition of Première Vision Paris here, with mills presenting all-terrain, user-friendly technical fabrics geared to the urban commuter lifestyle without compromising on style.
Take Schoeller Textil’s denim with a reflective yarn woven in and tweeds with a reflective finish, men’s outerwear specialist Newman Global’s waterproof polyester in a reflective camo print or François Girbaud’s playful capsule for Eurojersey — the Sensitive Preformers — focused on fit, form and function. Produced by Petratex and using Eurojersey’s patented Sensitive Fabric fitted with 3-D stretch properties — including a deep stretch — the line included a pant with inner back pockets filled with silicon pouches to enhance the wearer’s curves, a la Kim Kardashian.
“Tomorrow, the new way of commuting will be the e-bike, but people won’t want to compromise on elegance,” said Andrea Crespi, general manager of Eurojersey. “What we are offering is a fashionable product that can be used on a bike — because it’s stretch — and that, when they enter the office, won’t be creased. If they get dirty, they can just brush it off with a little soap and

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DOUBLE VINYL: Gucci’s invitation to its fashion show Feb. 22 is hard to miss — and easy to collect:  A 33-rpm vinyl record.
On side A, Florence Welch reads from “Songs of Innocence and Experience” by William Blake. On side B, A$AP Rocky reads “A love letter from Frederick Wentworth to Anne Elliot” from “Persuasion” by Jane Austen. Those who no longer own a record player — or never have — can scan the labels to download the readings by using the Gucci app.
Packaged in a brown paper envelope, the cover of the record shows a photo by Coco Capitan.  “What are we going to do with all this future?” is spelled out in graffiti-style graphics.  A snake design — a touch by Gucci’s creative director Alessandro Michele — circles the vinyl, and a photo of flower vases, reminiscent of a still-life painting, on a table with an iPhone charger, embellishes the inside of the cover. 
Welch, a longtime friend of the house, and A$AP Rocky, are expected to attend the Gucci show at the company’s new headquarters in Milan on Wednesday.

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Memo from London Fashion Week: Centaurs are the new unicorns.

“I want to represent more than just a pretty face and I want to show that I can speak up about issues.“

Christopher Kane introduces next-level slides.

The heritage house throws shade (onto your cheekbones).

Daniella Helayel, the Brazilian fashion designer behind Kate Middleton’s iconic Issa engagement dress, has opened up about the consequences of the’Kate effect’ on her now defunct fashion label.

It’s all change at Burberry, and not just from a business and marketing point of view. Christopher Bailey shifted direction for this second see-now-buy-now coed outing, inspired by one of his longtime lodestars, Henry Moore, the Yorkshire artist and sculptor famous for his off-balance proportions and chunky, curving bronzes. The Moore aesthetic doesn’t exactly jibe with the modern beauty ideal — what woman wants a breast at waist level and a foot like a T-bone steak? — which made Bailey’s choice intriguing.
The show was a departure on many levels — Burberry loves color and this collection came mainly in black, white, gray and a faded, workwear blue, the latter drawn from the everyday wardrobe of the artist himself. It was also Bailey’s most conceptual collection for Burberry, a purveyor of classic fare — the trench, the check, the military coat.
Bailey, who plans to return full-time to the design studio in July, when he’ll relinquish his chief executive role to Marco Gobbetti, tore everything up in the name of the artist, and the result was an abstract take on the brand’s staples.
Trenches were roomy and robust, with thick cuffs and chunky half-belts at the back, while asymmetric knits looked as if they were pieced together. Some

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A Nineties streetwear vibe is striking a chord throughout the shows in Las Vegas, and the merch feels more trend-right than ever.
 

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EARTHLY DELIGHTS: Fast Retailing’s Innovation Center in New York just got a creative boost.
Andrew Rosen, chief executive officer and founder of Theory and group senior vice president of Fast Retailing Co. Ltd., has spearheaded a collaboration with the School of Visual Arts in New York and Red Hook Labs in Red Hook, Brooklyn, to showcase an exclusive series of four photography installations throughout the year representing each of the earth elements: Water, Air, Fire and Earth.
Exhibited in the lobby of Fast Retailing’s Innovation Center at 2 Gansevoort Street in New York over the course of the coming year, the images were created by students of the MPS Fashion Photography program of SVA – the only graduate program for fashion photographers in the U.S. — assisted by students of the Labs Youth Center Program under the guidance of Red Hook Labs founder Jimmy Moffat.
Theory, Helmut Lang and Uniqlo share the Innovation Center, which houses the companies’ design and production.
Along with the exhibitions, Fast Retailing has endowed a scholarship for one student from the SVA MPS Fashion Photography Class of 2018 and will make a donation to support Red Hook Labs’ community programs.
The focus of the first exhibition is “Water.” Student artists

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