Alexander Fury

London

Fashion Features Director at AnOther Magazine

Fashion Features Director of AnOther Magazine, Men's Critic of the Financial Times newspaper. Fashion journalist and author.

Articles

Christian Lacroix: “I Have This Utopian Idea That the Past Can Come Back”

2 weeks ago | anothermag.com | Alexander Fury |TextAlexander Fury

In the latest issue of AnOther Magazine, the costume designer talks to Alexander Fury about the history of fashion This article is taken from the Spring/Summer 2025 issue of AnOther Magazine:“I didn’t want to be a couturier at first, I wanted to design for the stage. When I was a child I was drawn not to women’s fashion but the history of fashion. If I have had one thing in mind my whole life, it’s this utopian idea that the past can come back.
How Michel Gaubert Became Fashion’s Most Prolific Sound Director

2 weeks ago | anothermag.com | Alexander Fury

As his memoir Remixed is published, Michel Gaubert talks to Alexander Fury about why fashion and music are inextricable, and his iconic collaborations with Karl Lagerfeld Lead Image How do you commit sound to paper? If you’re not adroit at reading music, it’s a tricky endeavour.
The shoulder pad is back

3 weeks ago | ft.com | Alexander Fury

Here’s a phrase that will fill some with glee, and many with dread: the shoulder pad is back.
Cartier: A Precise History of the World’s Most Famous Jewellery Company

3 weeks ago | anothermag.com | Matthieu Lavanchy |Alexander Fury |TextAlexander Fury

PhotographyMatthieu LavanchyTextAlexander FuryLead Image This story is taken from the Spring/Summer 2025 issue of AnOther Magazine:Cartier is probably the most famous jewellery company in the world. That’s because its name means more than just diamonds and pearls – it’s part of history. Established in 1847, the house had only been in business a year when the July Monarchy was deposed in France’s February Revolution; the foundation of Napoleon III’s Second Empire came in 1852, barely five years in.
Volume control

1 month ago | ft.com | Alexander Fury

The word crinoline typically conjures up an image of a vast, spreading, mid-19th century skirt.
Rei Kawakubo: tale of the unexpected

1 month ago | ft.com | Alexander Fury

Rei Kawakubo is one of the most influential figures in fashion.
Is fur shedding its taboo?

1 month ago | ft.com | Alexander Fury

If there’s a single garment that defines the autumn/winter 2025 womenswear season, it’s a fur coat.
At Saint Laurent, Some of the Most Compelling and Powerful Fashion Today

1 month ago | anothermag.com | Alexander Fury |TextAlexander Fury

At Saint Laurent’s Autumn/Winter 2025 show, Anthony Vaccarello referenced the house’s forgotten moments, rather than its greatest hitsLead Image “A sensitive body, inside strong clothes.” That was Anthony Vaccarello’s statement, backstage, before his Autumn/Winter 2025 Saint Laurent collection – the closing shot of Paris Fashion Week, and the main drag of the season as a whole.
Miu Miu’s “Bold” Exploration of Multiple Femininities

1 month ago | anothermag.com | Alexander Fury |TextAlexander Fury

Lead Image Femininity has always fascinated Miuccia Prada – in fact, make that femininities. Because the idea is never static nor fixed, and she avoids all cliché, consistently excavating our ideas of what it means to be a woman, and her own personal experience. It was the foundation of the Autumn/Winter 2025 Prada show she designed two weeks ago alongside Raf Simons in Milan, and “femininities” was the title she gave to her latest collection. It’s an idea she isn’t ready to let go of.
For A/W25, Chanel Toys With Its Unmistakable Language

1 month ago | anothermag.com | Alexander Fury |TextAlexander Fury

Lead Image The fil rouge at the Autumn/Winter 2025 Chanel show was actually a black ribbon – they were knotted into a bow on every invitation and then, blown up big, became a set piece created by scenographer Willo Perron that swirled, against gravity, into the air around the models. Black ribbons have been at Chanel since the very beginning: Gabrielle Chanel knotted them around the stark, simple hats she started her career with at the beginning of the last century.