Unisex dressing is one of the touchstones of the Paris-based designer Rad Hourani. Modular dressing is another. So not only does he show collections—both for his more experimental Rad Hourani line, and the (ever so slightly) more commercial RAD by Rad Hourani—of matching looks on men and women, those looks are composed of a startlingly [...]

Being at Paris fashion week—a.k.a. the purgatory of the chronic over-packer—a Donna Karan-like system of dressing sounds like heaven. That’s just what Rad Hourani has created with his new collection: six pieces (one less than Donna’s famous seven easy ones) that combine to create 22 different looks. There are three jackets, one dress/top, one pair [...]

If you’re a fashion person of a certain age, you probably had a Helmut Lang flashback at Rad Hourani’s show. The young Canadian designer had sewn straps inside jackets and vests à la vintage Lang, which he showed shrugged off shoulders and flapping like tailored black angel wings. “I’ve never done it before but I [...]

“I don’t know if it’s called a diffusion line,” said Rad Hourani last night, sitting backstage in a Soho Grand conference room before the presentation of his new collection Rad by Rad Hourani. Perhaps that’s because nothing in the world could get this up-and-comer to diffuse or dilute the strict angular, noir-ish look that he’s [...]