Vanessa Friedman Breaks Down Three Notorious Fashion Shows

Vanessa Friedman, revered fashion critic and fashion director of The New York Times, recounts legendary fashion moments. Selecting the show where Hussein Chalayan made furniture into wearable fashion for A/W 00, Yohji Yamamoto's metamorphic S/S 99 wedding collection, and a sit down dinner for 500, courtesy of Dries Van Noten’s 50th anniversary show, Friedman takes us hurtling back in time to rediscover how the catwalk was revolutionised as a space for performance, marking a new era for the runway show as we once knew it. View the full interview exclusively on SHOWstudio.com Looking back to an age before social media gave the world access to the fashion show, SHOWstudio's 'Narrated Catwalk' series invites revered fashion journalists to give their front account of three memorable runway moments. View the interviews in full exclusively at https://showstudio.com/projects/the-narrated-catwalk 0:00​ - 0:21​ - Introduction 0:21​ - 9:07​ - Yohji Yamamoto S/S 99 9:08​ - 17:00​ - Chalayan A/W 00 17:01 - 25:05​ - Dries van Noten S/S 05 Established in November 2000, SHOWstudio is an award-winning fashion website, founded and directed by Nick Knight, that has defined the manner in which fashion is presented via the Internet. A pioneer of fashion film and live fashion broadcasting, SHOWstudio is now recognised as the leading force behind these mediums, offering a unique platform to nurture and encourage fashion to engage with moving image in the digital age. In its documentation of fa