For two decades, Erdem Moralioglu has imagined wardrobes for women whose lives exist somewhere between history and fiction. Now, his first major retrospective in Doha turns the designer's own creative history into a museum narrative. Erdem Moralioglu has spent much of his career dressing women he has never met. Historical figures, artists, performers and aristocrats have provided the starting points for elaborate fictional wardrobes, allowing the designer to imagine their pri

An upcoming Paris auction places extraordinary creations by Chanel, Madeleine Vionnet, Dior and Balenciaga under the hammer Imagine being offered a choice between a contemporary designer handbag and an evening dress created by Gabrielle Chanel nearly a century ago. One represents the current luxury market, complete with its increasingly ambitious prices. The other is a surviving piece of fashion history, created during a period when designers were fundamentally reconsidering

Gabriela Hearst's Spring/Summer 2027 collection brought Afghan women's history and craftsmanship to the Paris runway. It also raises an important question about what fashion owes the cultures and communities from which it draws inspiration. A woman in Afghanistan creates an intricate piece of embroidery. Thousands of kilometres away, that craftsmanship appears on a luxury runway in Paris, admired by editors, photographed by international media and eventually offered to custom