Miss Dior exhibition opens in Monsieur’s Provençal chateau
Parfums Christian Dior has opened the Miss Dior Exhibition 12 Women Artists featuring interpretations of the fragrance in Monsieur Dior’s Chateau de la Colle Noire, opening it for the...
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Alexander McQueen: Storm chasers in a giant domeAlexander McQueen: Storm chasers in a giant dome
Alexander McQueen and Sarah Burton returned to London with a rooftop runway show at lunchtime on Tuesday, a visual fashion storm after the eerie calm of the lockdown.
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Why visiting Thierry Mugler: Couturissime is essentialWhy visiting Thierry Mugler: Couturissime is essential
Ever since it opened during last month fashionistas, fans and tourists have chorused that the retrospective Thierry Mugler: Couturissime inside the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris is...
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![]( "Max Mara Fashion Group partners with Margherita Maccapani Missoni in new Max&Co collab")
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Max Mara's Max&Co has teamed up with Margherita Maccapani Missoni in the first of a new series of of design partnerships entitled &Co.llaboration, as the Italian creator returns to design...
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Parfums Christian Dior names Francis Kurkdjian as perfumes creation directorParfums Christian Dior names Francis Kurkdjian as perfumes creation director
Parfums Christian Dior has named Francis Kurkdjian as its perfumes creation director, in the latest step up in the LVMH hierarchy by the talented nose and scent creator.
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![]( "Balmain's Olivier Rousteing reveals on Instagram he suffered shocking burns")
Balmain's Olivier Rousteing reveals on Instagram he suffered shocking burnsBalmain's Olivier Rousteing reveals on Instagram he suffered shocking burns
Balmain’s creative director Olivier Rousteing took to Instagram this weekend to reveal in a post that he had suffered shocking burns from an explosion in a fireplace in his Paris apartment.
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![]( "Fashion unites via EBIT to support World Mental Health Day 2021")
Fashion unites via EBIT to support World Mental Health Day 2021Fashion unites via EBIT to support World Mental Health Day 2021
A group of noted fashion insiders have united via the collective Enjoy Being In Transition (EBIT) to support World Mental Health Day 2021, this Sunday, Oct. 10.
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Deeny’s Dozen: The 12 best shows this seasonDeeny’s Dozen: The 12 best shows this season
The international runway season ended this week after four weeks of shows in four fashion capitals. This season, we pick the 12 most important from live catwalk shows in Europe, with New...
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Sphere: The intelligent incubator and platformSphere: The intelligent incubator and platform
One must-see community in Paris Fashion Week is Sphere, a combination of showroom, presentation space and video display of vital young talents that present in the French Capital –...
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Louis Vuitton: Richelieu 'n' roll, amid climate protestLouis Vuitton: Richelieu 'n' roll, amid climate protest
No one could accuse Louis Vuitton’s Nicolas Ghesquièreof lacking imagination. He packs more ideas into one look that some designers instill into a whole collection. Even if climate...
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![]( "Paris Fashion Week ends with Love Brings Love farewell to Alber Elbaz")
Paris Fashion Week ends with Love Brings Love farewell to Alber ElbazParis Fashion Week ends with Love Brings Love farewell to Alber Elbaz
The fashion industry bade farewell on Tuesday night to Alber Elbaz in exactly the way he would have wanted, with a legendary runway show.
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Miu Miu with a Moroccan twistMiu Miu with a Moroccan twist
Self-editing, a talent few designers are blessed with, which is why they employ stylists to help hone their visions, was the key to the latest Miu Miu collection staged Tuesday, the final...
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Chanel: Modern mode for modelsChanel: Modern mode for models
It felt like the good old days at Chanel’s runway show, with scores of photographers surrounding the catwalk, screaming on the models. Fortunately, the clothes look fresh and fun and for...
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![]( "Giambattista Valli: Masterly metaphysical mode")
Giambattista Valli: Masterly metaphysical modeGiambattista Valli: Masterly metaphysical mode
Just when you thought Giambattista Valli was getting a little predictable, the Roman designer emerges from Covid and wows you with his most brilliant show in years, in a celebration of...
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Schiaparelli’s surrealist-chic sweet spotSchiaparelli’s surrealist-chic sweet spot
If at first you don’t succeed, try and try again. Which is what’s happened at Schiaparelli, where designer Daniel Roseberry has hit a sweet spot between polished, perverse and punchy.
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![]( "Shang Xia: A hybrid debut hit in Paris")
Shang Xia: A hybrid debut hit in ParisShang Xia: A hybrid debut hit in Paris
Turns out the Paris season’s biggest debut was on a crisp Monday when Yang Li presented his first collection for Chinese luxury marque Shang Xia, a brainy and beguiling high-color hybrid...
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Ann Demeulemeester returns, sort ofAnn Demeulemeester returns, sort of
Ann Demeulemeester returned to Paris to see the rebirth of her fashion house Sunday, though from the front and not the backstage. Sitting snugly beside the brand’s new owner, fashion...
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Akris S/S 2022: The woman with an apronAkris S/S 2022: The woman with an apron
Working out how to dress women for the post-Covid era has exercised the minds of all designers this season. Most notably at Akris, a house which dresses women who guide corporations and...
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![]( "Lanvin: Roaring Twenties 21st century style")
Lanvin: Roaring Twenties 21st century styleLanvin: Roaring Twenties 21st century style
The Roaring Twenties with a rock 'n' roll twist, Art Deco with a modern attitude in a first-rate collection from Lanvin this season, staged on a dank Sunday in Paris.
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![]( "Balenciaga: Red carpet show, The Simpsons fashion premiere")
Balenciaga: Red carpet show, The Simpsons fashion premiereBalenciaga: Red carpet show, The Simpsons fashion premiere
All the world’s a red carpet, and nowhere more so than at Paris Fashion Week, where Balenciaga staged a runway show that took place, well, on a red carpet. Before the premiere of a...
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Logo-laden Karl Lagerfeld; NFT overdriveLogo-laden Karl Lagerfeld; NFT overdrive
This season, when it came to clothes and accessories, logos were pretty much everywhere at Karl Lagerfeld. This past week the house dropped the latest NFT digitally rendered avatar of...
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Paris Fashion Week: Hipster HermèsParis Fashion Week: Hipster Hermès
A major injection of hipness into Hermès this season, and all the better for it. Almost as if the Hermès lady had moved to a loft in Brooklyn or an art gallery in Hackney, or was working...
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Yohji Yamamoto: Visions in blackYohji Yamamoto: Visions in black
Fashion models rarely look more proud than in Yohji Yamamoto shows, especially when the Japanese designer produces one of his vintage performances, which is what his latest collection was.
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Valentino: Rendezvous with regenerationValentino: Rendezvous with regeneration
In recent years, Valentino has staged its collections in a Rothschild mansion or behind Napoleon’s Tomb. On Friday, it took its collection onto the streets of funky eastern Paris.
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Elsewhere in Paris: Isabel Marant, Leonard, Moynat and BaccaratElsewhere in Paris: Isabel Marant, Leonard, Moynat and Baccarat
The rain from the Bay of Biscay may have engulfed the City of Light, but the mood was sunny and optimistic at Isabel Marant and Leonard, quietly confident at Moynat and effervescent at...
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![]( "Loewe: Breastplates and erotic surrealism")
Loewe: Breastplates and erotic surrealismLoewe: Breastplates and erotic surrealism
Possibly no designer today has quite so many ideas as Jonathan Anderson, who presented a striking, surreal and yet subtle collection for the house of Loewe on a chilly Friday morning in...
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![]( "Frame frames the Ritz")
Frame frames the RitzFrame frames the Ritz
One collab’ that seems destined to become a must-have is the link up between Frame and the Ritz. Named 'Frame x Ritz Paris', it debuted in Paris on Thursday.
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![]( "Rokh triumphs with delicate deconstruction")
Rokh triumphs with delicate deconstructionRokh triumphs with delicate deconstruction
The problem with deconstruction, a huge movement in fashion, is that while it looks great on runways, it tends to frighten consumers on a clothes rack. Not at Rokh, which staged a great...
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![]( "Rick Owens’s startling chic starring Michèle Lamy")
Rick Owens’s startling chic starring Michèle LamyRick Owens’s startling chic starring Michèle Lamy
Always admirable to see a great designer celebrate his muse, as Rick Owens did Thursday, opening his show with Michèle Lamy, Rick’s wife, aesthete and one of France’s greatest living...
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![]( "Coperni: From hemp to high tech with Eve Jobs")
Coperni: From hemp to high tech with Eve JobsCoperni: From hemp to high tech with Eve Jobs
“We are obsessed with technology and all its benefits,” said Sébastien Meyer, one half of the duo that created Coperni. So much so that Meyer and partner Arnaud Vaillant even cast Steve...