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PFW: Hermès imagines urban summer, KidSuper creates a fairytale and Ziggy Chen lightens with linen

Paris – Faced with the sweltering heat in Europe, French fashion house Hermès proposed a lightweight style for men spending summer in the city on Saturday; trousers were favoured over shorts, with clever designs to combat the heat. Trousers and a jacket made of finely braided leather strips, reminiscent of a summer chair, were a particular...

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‘Bape opens in Paris and takes control of European strategy,’ Adrien Kunz-Aubert, general manager Europe

On the occasion of the opening of the A Bathing Ape boutique, often shortened to BAPE, FashionUnited met with Adrien Kunz-Aubert, general manager Europe, to learn more about the brand's new development strategy in Europe and, in particular, in France. A Bathing Ape boutique located in le Marais: does this signal end of BAPE representation by...

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New York goes to Europe: US brands swapping home turf in pursuit of brighter lights

It has long been argued whether New York Fashion Week has been obscured in the shadow of its European peers. Year-after-year, the city sees some of its homegrown talent turn to where they think the grass may be greener, in the hope of possibly securing a larger market share among the continent’s most affluent. It could be that New York’s...

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Tremaine Emory and Colm Dillane among CFDA’s new members

The Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) has unveiled 10 new designer additions to its membership roster for the current year. Among the new members are accessory designer Brandon Blackwood, founder of Kidsuper Colm Dillane, founder of Denim Tears and creative director of Supreme Tremaine Emory, creative director of Maison Schiaparelli...

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LVMH announces changes at the top, but who will be the next Louis Vuitton men's designer?

A change of the guards at LVMH has seen a shuffling of management at the Group’s biggest brands, but a successor to Virgil Abloh at Louis Vuitton remains a mystery. On Tuesday Louis Vuitton revealed a collaboration with Brooklyn-based designer KidSuper, who some have suggested could be next at the helm of its menswear brand. Announcing a...

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KidSuper’s Colm Dillane co-creates Louis Vuitton AW23 collection

Following the death in 2021 of creative director Virgil Abloh , the Louis Vuitton Homme studio team took the reins and imagined, season after season, the men's collections of the luxury label. But things are changing. Louis Vuitton's autumn/winter 2023/24 collection was, this time, co-designed with Colm Dillane, founder of the KidSuper label....

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Video: KidSuper at Paris Men's Fashion Week

In this video, Brooklyn‑based artist collective KidSuper has presented its SS22 collection at Paris Men's Fashion Week (PFW). Watch the video below. Video: KidSuper via YouTube Photo credit: Hypebeast