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Chanel plays with proportions as Paris Fashion Week wraps up
Chanel presented its Fall-Winter collection on the last day of Paris Women's Fashion Week on Tuesday, playing with proportions and layering in a show designed without incoming artistic director Matthieu Blazy. Staged in the Grand Palais exhibition hall in central Paris, the catwalk presentation featured a monumental black ribbon that spiralled...
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Stars hop aboard for train-inspired Louis Vuitton show
Louis Vuitton invited a star-studded audience to its Fall-Winter 2025 show near the Gare du Nord train station on Monday in Paris, unveiling a collection packed full of its version of travel essentials. LV-branded luggage and bags, some in the form of musical instruments, thick-soled trainers for walking, hats, capes and trench coats to protect...
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From 'mob wives' to millennials: Faux fur is now a fashion staple
Thanks to the "mob wife" style trend and advances in manufacturing technology that make it look like the real thing, fake fur has conquered catwalks and the high street. The look is set to last, with the Fall/Winter 2025 shows at Paris Womenswear Fashion Week over the last 10 days showcasing the material in almost every conceivable way. Whether...
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Trends at Paris Women's Fashion Week
Lots of fur and leather, ever-expanding shoulder pads and shoes, splashes of yellow: AFP looks at some of the trends from Paris Women's Fashion Week, which wraps up on Tuesday. Fur Back on the runways last year and in the streets for several months now, fur (mostly fake) was absolutely everywhere in the Fall/Winter 2025 collections, whether as...
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Amazon rival Mercado Libre to invest 3.4 billion dollars in Mexico
Mercado Libre, a Latin American rival of Amazon, announced Friday a 3.4 billion dollars investment in Mexico, the latest in a series of pledges by foreign firms in spite of US tariff threats. "It means that despite these tariff issues, they're going to continue their investment in Mexico," economy minister Marcelo Ebrard said after the Argentine...
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Matières Fécales makes a splash at Paris Fashion Week
Paris Fashion Week witnessed a debut show on Friday from one of the most unusually named brands in the luxury clothing industry: Matières Fécales, which means fecal matter in French. After meeting in fashion school in Montreal, Hannah Rose Dalton and Steven Raj Bhaskaran set up their label 10 years ago in opposition to the idea of the clothing...
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Highlights from Paris Women's Fashion Week
Ahead of the end of Paris Women's Fashion Week on Tuesday, AFP picks highlights from some of the smaller designer shows and their Fall/Winter collections: Zomer flips the script For their fourth collection --the third presented in Paris --the creative duo behind Paris-based Zomer delivered a show in rewind mode at the Palais de Tokyo art space....
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Hermes celebrates felt at Paris Fashion Week
Paris – French brand Hermès put felt at the heart of its Fall-Winter collection at its Paris Women's Fashion Week show on Saturday in a beige-toned setting resembling a labyrinth. The label sent out models in fitted designs with sharp cuts, small belts accentuating the waist, and jackets with padded shoulders, bucking the oversized trend seen on...
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Sarah Burton makes Givenchy debut in Paris
British designer Sarah Burton stuck to black and white debuting as chief designer at Givenchy on Friday during Paris Fashion Week, going back to the fashion label's 1950s origins for inspiration. Burton, who was appointed in September last year, sent out models in the historic offices of the brand in the wealthy eighth district of the French...
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Former French spy chief sentenced to four years in influence-peddling trial
A Paris court on Friday sentenced the former head of France's domestic intelligence agency to four years in prison, two of them suspended, on charges of using his security contacts for private gain including by obtaining confidential information for luxury giant LVMH. Bernard Squarcini, 69, known as "le Squale" (the shark), will appeal the...
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