Colville

The short, streamlined shapes of the 1960s are trending in Milan this season. There have been countless youthquake revivals over the years, and each time the era comes back around, it loses a little more of its graphic punch, to say nothing…

Milan has taken a turn for the minimal. Cargo pants, ribbed knits, and slip dresses have dominated the runways in the first two days of shows here, as trends have started to take shape. But not at Colville. Founders Lucinda Chambers and…

In a rejuvenated Milan Fashion Week dominated by global names, Colville is the little brand that could. It’s growing organically, not with multimillion dollar marketing budgets, but with something more reliable: word of mouth, the shared…

Like most war veterans, Alfie Viger didn't talk much about his war experience. According to his daughter, Cheryl Hasson, he was always reluctant to describe what the Second World War was like for him, even when his children tried to get…

Lucinda Chambers and Molly Molloy enlisted the artist Blue Farrier to create prints for their new Colville collection. Farrier was a student with Molloy at Central Saint Martins in the 1990s; her remit here was to do something “really…