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>> If you’re a true Disney aficionado, then it’s not just the saccharine colour schemes, the happy clap-trap songs and love-and-beauty-will-prevail sentiment that gets you going. And so in Coach’s latest collaboration with Disney, in continuation of their tie-up with the most American of icons, things develop into a “Dark Fairy Tale”, and predominantly centre around the older and for me, most haunting films – Snow White & and the Seven Dwarves and Sleeping Beauty. They feature as patches on Coach’s stable collecgtion of Rogues, Dinky’s, totes and revived Coach signature logo duffles, as well as intarsia knits, t-shirts, parkas and hoodies, appropriately sloganned for those days when you want to fully tug on the drawstring toggles. Coach x Disney fantasy scape knit and Patchwork Rogue 25 bag, Coach pink satin trousers worn with Rachel Comey earrings and Mansur Gavriel sandals Coach x Disney Dopey Hoodie and Purple Patches Dinky worn with Coach pre-fall 2018 floral dress and lace-up boots Coach x Disney Sleepy Hoodie and Spooky Eyes Duffle 20 Bag worn with Coach pre-fall 2018 floral dress and lace-up boots

Their presence is prompted in part by pirate radio waves, the rooted beginnings of Mike Skinner’s breakthrough album Original Pirate Material (which titled Holland’s SS18 collection) and  also by surfer’s waves as seen in the seaside slacker silhouettes. x The Woolmark Company “Power” coat and wavy cut-out jumper worn with Rejina Pyo trousers House of Holland x The Woolmark Company patches trousers worn with Y/Project hoodie and Fila trainers House of Holland x The Woolmark Company hooded jacket and wavy peace cut-out jumper worn with J. W. Anderson dress

The cutting table of Maison Lemarié’s workshop at Villa Noailles for the Hyères 33rd Festival of Fashion and Photography What thankfully hasn’t changed is that South of France relaxedness and the feeling that you’re happing onto fashion moments  rather than being hell bent on seeking it out. Sarah Bruylant (Belgium) who won the Public Prize of this year’s Hyères Festival with her collection More impressively, the actual clothes stand up to scrutiny,  Botter will getto present a collection at next year’s festival made in partnership with one of Chanel’s Metiers d’Art, as last year’s winner Vanessa Schindler did, and will also be going on to present this collection at the final of the LVMH Prize later in May. Vanessa Schindler’s collection made with the employment of Maison Lesage embroidery and jewels from Maison Goosens Ester Manas was my other definite pick to win the Grand Prize but instead, like fellow La Cambre graduate Marine Serre in last year’s edition of the festival (and we all know what SHE has gone on to do…

Their design collaborations have always erred on the side of unexpected – from Undercover’s Jun Takahashi to Carine Roitfeld to J. W. Anderson to the latest announcement of Tomas Maier, who will work on Uniqlo’s Life Wear concept. Employing its arsenal of iconic prints with names such as Tilkkutakki (rainbow triangular quilting), Kukkia Rakkaalle (an arrangement of flowers and butterflies) and Pompula (abstract flower pots), they grace oversized shift dresses, boxy tees and wide-legged cropped trousers. For the print-shy, my summer bet is on the array of drawstring gymsacks, so I get to relive my school days when all the cool kids at school had logo-ed nylon baggies on their back as a badge of sport-ish honour. Uniqlo x Marimekko Nonparelli dress, Polle cropped trousers and slip-ons worn with Celine neon yellow top and Nike socks