PFW: Phan Huy F/W 2025-26 Haute Couture, Part 01

Would like to share with you today these fantastic haute couture designs from the young Vietnamese fashion designer Phan Huy for the season F/W 2025-26, seen at Paris Fashion Week. I am very impressed by his stunning collection! What a beauty and craftsmanship to see. Enjoy the beauty of haute couture from this inspiring fashion designer. I also added the link from his fashion show on You tube. I wrote 2 blogs, part 2 will follow soon ......

More about the collection:

Phan Huy made his official haute couture debut on July 9, 2025 at the Palais de Tokyo, weaving the soul of Vietnam into the revered fabric of Paris Fashion Week. The Fall-Winter 2025-2026 collection did not seek spectacle or grandeur. Instead, it arrived with reverence - a meditation on identity, land and legacy. Not a debut of ambition, but of becoming.

Phan Huy’s Fall 2025 Couture collection is a poetic exploration of the Vietnamese countryside, brought to life through 36 meticulously crafted looks. Designer Phan Nguyễn Nguyên Huy channels his childhood memories - from sunbaked soil to bamboo rustling and rivers weaving through rice fields - into garments that blend tradition with couture innovation.

Each piece reflects the rhythms and textures of rural life, transforming family photographs and folk rhymes into delicate embroidery, layered fabrics and subtle details. The collection honors the quiet beauty and soul of Vietnam’s landscapes, while pushing the boundaries of couture with technical mastery and ethereal silhouettes. This collection is more than fashion - it’s a heartfelt tribute to identity, memory and national pride, presenting a fresh Vietnamese narrative on the global stage of Paris Couture Week. Be Inspired ........





Phan Huy, the fashion designer 

More about the designer

Phan Huy is an haute couture fashion house founded in 2023 by celebrated stylist and designer Steven Doan and visionary creative director Phan Huy. The brand is dedicated to redefining modern luxury through a seamless blend of Vietnamese heritage, artisanal craftsmanship and cutting-edge couture innovation.

Phan Huy was founded with a clear mission: to redefine luxury through a fusion of cultural heritage and modern innovation. Their atelier, based in Vietnam, serves as the heart of their craftsmanship, where they combine traditional Vietnamese weaving techniques, natural plant-based dyeing and cutting-edge methods such as laser pattern cutting. Each piece is meticulously handcrafted by skilled artisans with an unwavering attention to detail. Through techniques such as intricate embroidery, silk weaving and hand-draping, they aim to preserve and elevate Vietnam’s rich textile heritage while pushing the boundaries of couture design.

Since its debut at Paris Fashion Week, Phan Huy has captivated the global fashion elite with its exclusive runway presentations and showroom showcases. The brand’s distinctive designs have graced the red carpets of prestigious events, including the Cannes Film Festival, worn by an array of international style icons and celebrities. Among them are Ginta, Jhené Aiko and Miss Universe titleholders Victoria Theilvig and Zozibini Tunzi. The brand has also garnered admiration from Asian superstars like Zhao Lusi, Yang Mi and Fan Chengcheng.

Crafted with meticulous attention to detail in Vietnam, Phan Huy represents a new era of couture, where time-honored techniques meet contemporary elegance. With an expanding global presence spanning Europe, Asia and beyond, the brand continues to shape the future of haute couture - offering a vision of sophisticated cultural authenticity fused with international allure.

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Sources: PHAN HUY Official and Kendam
Photos: courtesy of Phan Huy

Flashback: Naeem Khan S/S 2023 RTW, Part 01

Below you will find some highlights from the fashionshow from Indian-American fashion designer Naeem Khan for S/S 2023 RTW, seen at New York Fashion Week. Earlier I wrote more blogs about Couture, SEE HERE

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Sources: WWD and NAEEM KHAN
Photos: courtesy of Naeem Khan

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Furniture Design: A beautiful white tufted sofa from Longhi .......

 Would like to share with you today this beautiful white tufted sofa from the Italian design company Longhi. What a beauty to see! Longhi collections represent the essence of Italian contemporary design furniture. Modern chic sofas, decorative doors and furnishing complements designed and hand-crafted for maximum comfort and functionality. Be Inspired .........

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Source: LONGHI
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Interior Design: Luis Puerta - Inspiring Spanish Interior Designer

Love the decorating work from this fantastic interior designer, Luis Puerta. Luis Puerta is an interior designer from Madrid, Spain. He has a fantastic feeling for style, elegance and harmony. He seeks to create spaces that are serene, elegant and timeless. He seems very much influenced by French design and uses mirrors in his spaces quite often. Take note because his mirror applications are pretty spectacular - such a great way to make a space appear much larger than it is. Be inspired by this talented interior designer ........

The interior designer Luis Puerta

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Source: Luis Puerta 

Gorgeous Couture collection from Zuhair Murad F/W 2023, Part 02

 Would like to share with you today the gorgeous F/W 2023 couture collection from fashion designer Zuhair Murad. His designs are so feminine, sensual with a touch of glamour. It's always a joy to see more of his new collections. Be Inspired ..... Earlier I wrote more blogs about this fantastic designer, SEE HERE 




Zuhair Murad, fashion designer. Source: A&E World

More about the designer 
Zuhair Murad  is a Beirut-based Lebanese fashion designer. He is considered to be one of the most talented designers of the 21st century. Zuhair Murad was born and raised in Baalbek, Lebanon in 1971. His passion for fashion was visible from an early age. When he was 14, Zuhair won a TV contest with three outfits which defined his personal and particular style. That childhood passion led him to study at a design school in Paris and in 1997 he opened his very first atelier in Beirut. In 1999, Murad celebrated his international debut at the Alta Roma Fashion Week, following an invitation from the Camera Nazionale della Moda and three years later he presented his couture collection for the 1st time during Haute Couture Week in Paris.

Chosen by L’agenzia per la Moda to appear at the official opening of the 2001 festival in Rome, Murad quickly became known as one of the best designers in Italy. This was the beginning of a new era for him. In 2005, he debuted the first Zuhair Murad RTW collection, a more simple – yet still aesthetically glamorous – contemporary line designed to meet the expanding needs of his clients. Two years later inaugurates his Parisian “Maison de Couture” in the heart of the Triangle d’Or on “François 1er” Street.

The international media has declared him as ‘the star rocketing designer’ and ‘one of the most promising young designers for the new era’ due to his unique style and creativity which ensure his ongoing successful career.

Since 2009 an enormous amount of celebrities likes to shine at important events with his unique pieces. His ability to turn every woman who wears his amazing pieces into a goddess make some believe that he stole Cinderella’s fairy grandmother’s stick and everything he designed was created with pure magic. His unique creations that define oriental essence and beauty have made their way towards all the major podiums, boutiques and personalities.

What initially began as a young boy’s hobby with little sketches and pictures painted on paper and canvas has now grown into a fashion empire with strong regional recognition and a growing global reputation.

‘I started from scratch and worked my way up’, says Murad who’s adventurous and aspiring nature have lead him to where he is today. Zuhair Murad is the perfect example of how ambition, perseverance and creativity can lead to an eclectic runway of life.

‘It’s about sensuality and femininity, along with a touch of glamour.’

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Sources: ZUHAIR MURAD and A&E World
Photos: courtesy of Zuhair Murad

Goodbye November & Welcome December .........

 Goodbye November & Welcome December.
Wishing you all a wonderful December month with lots of Love, Joy & Happiness!

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Art: Ton Schulten - Dutch painter of Consensusism

Several years ago, during holiday time, I stayed in the place Ootmarsum in the Netherlands and spent quite some hours by looking at the colourful paintings of the Dutch artist Ton Schulten and the beautiful art they have. I can absolutely recommend you to visit this lovely Dutch village with interesting art. Below you will find more information about the painter as well as his paintings. I also wrote a another blog about guest exhibitors from the Galerie Ton Schulten. This blogpost is a repost of my blog from 24-03-2021. Be Inspired by this interesting artist .......

Passion and enchantment: the world according to Ton Schulten.

Ton Schulten, a painter from Ootmarsum in the Netherlands, has been creating his distinctive and colourful landscape mosaics since the early 1990’s. In his work you will find the zest for life and optimism.

More about Ton Schulten: a painter of consensusism

In the early nineties, Ton Schulten (born 1938) decided to start concentrating on his painting. This decision marked the end of a successful career as an advertising agent. He exchanged his hectic life as a director/owner of an advertising agency in Ootmarsum, for a life of dreaming away the days in colour and form, and recording these dreams on canvas with a merciless rhythm - as if he was making up for lost time. Ton Schulten had enough of 'playing the manager', as he calls it himself. He felt he had become alienated from the creative process that is inherent in creating advertising campaigns. In painting, he rediscovered what he had 'lost' in the advertising world. Very soon he emerged as a true colourist: he started, as it were, living with colour. He allowed the colours to direct him, even decide what he did on the canvas, and he always said that 'it was a joy to paint'. This is how Ton Schulten regained his artistic freedom and became a painter. 



The work of Ton Schulten cannot really be described in one word. It has expressionist overtones, yet is in a class of its own. This is what Ton Schulten intended right from the start: he wanted to paint in a style that had not been seen before. He builds up his compositions using broad, vertical bands of colour. Like a child playing with building bricks, the artist Ton Schulten systematically builds his mystical mosaic landscapes which, admittedly, only exist in his mind, but are always inspired by the repoussoir landscape of Twente. To him, red is the colour of warmth; green is about nature and its wonderful scents. Yellow and orange stand for joyfulness - the sun! Ton Schulten says: 'I let things happen, things that are impossible but have a fascinating effect. This makes for an ongoing new, creative process'.

Ton Schulten has now become one of the most successful artists of our time. He is best known for his mosaic landscapes. The colourful canvases were inspired by the repoussoir Twente landscape with its distinctive lateral moraines, its 'essen' - rolling raised stretches of agricultural land - and its solitary trees and clusters of shrubs.

His work, consisting of canvases, screen prints and reproductions, can be seen at 'Chez Moi Ton Schulten Galerie International' and in the Museum Ton Schulten, both in Ootmarsum. For more information please have a look at their website, see enclosed hyperlink. 

Ton Schulten, the artist

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Source: TON SCHULTEN

Note: these pictures have been placed with approval of Ton Schulten.