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France's fashion body Fédération de la Haute Couture Elects Bruno Pavlovsky as president

France’s official fashion body, Fédération de Haute Couture et de la Mode (FHCM), has elected Bruno Pavlosky as president. Pavlosky succeeds Ralph Toledano and was elected by the Federation’s governing board and executive committee. The role of president is a term of four years. The committee is the FHCM's decision-making body, administered by 6...

Jul 4, 2022

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Menswear regains its muscle at Paris Fashion Week

Menswear proved to be in reinvigorated form as Paris Fashion Week ended on Sunday, with spectacle, innovation and the return of big-name designers to the catwalk. The week concluded with the surprising return of fabled French designer Hedi Slimane, formerly of Dior and Saint Laurent and now with Celine. Two years ago, he had announced he was...

Jun 27, 2022

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Paris fashion week FW22 trends on the catwalks

The Paris shows put the playfulness back into Fashion Week with youth cultures and the world of art inspiring a wave of creativity and bold statements. Modern art references provided colourful vibrancy with meaning as designers continued to explore and push gender boundaries, reassess notions of femininity and remain true to their sustainable...

Mar 11, 2022

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Paris Fashion Week FW22: the top five trends store buyers need to know

Paris Fashion Week FW22 has come to an end and with it the major FW22 ready-to-wear runway season. It started and finished under a cloud of war and no one can predict what will happen in the coming days and weeks. Olivier Rousteing admitted to feeling uncomfortable presenting the FW22 Balmain collection while witnessing the violent attack on...

Mar 10, 2022

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Chanel dedicates AW22 collection to tweed

Chanel opened the final day of Paris Fashion Week with an explosion of tweed, taking its guests on a journey along the River Tweed, inspired by walks founder Gabrielle Chanel took in Scotland. Everything about the French fashion house’s autumn/winter 2022 show was about tweed, from the collection to the invite, and even the Grand Palais Éphémère...

Mar 9, 2022

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Stella McCartney wants the world to Give Peace a Chance

Stella McCartney dedicated her catwalk show during Paris Fashion Week to the people of Ukraine along with an anti-war message from John Lennon’s ‘Give Peace a Chance’ song and John F. Kennedy’s peace speech. The designer also added in her show notes that she was donating an undisclosed sum to Care, an organisation providing emergency crisis...

Mar 8, 2022

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Paris fashion week closes with a solemn tone

Paris Fashion Week, which ends on Tuesday, has been over-shadowed by the war in Ukraine, with designers struggling for ways to balance declarations of solidarity with the glamour and spectacle of their shows. Some offered heartfelt tributes to the Ukrainian people alongside their women's autumn-winter collections -- none more so than Balenciaga...

Mar 8, 2022

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Valentino showcases new Pantone pink shade at PFW

Valentino creative director Pierpaolo Piccioli turned Le Carreau du Temple into a pinkscape during Paris Fashion Week to present an autumn/winter 2022 collection almost entirely in pink. This wasn’t just any shade of pink, this was Valentino ‘Pink PP’ a bright magenta hue created by Piccioli in collaboration with Pantone. The pink-out was...

Mar 7, 2022

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Balenciaga's apocalyptic show is fashion's ode to resistance

Balenciaga’s apocalyptic set of a white rotund, where models walked against fierce winds and snow, the harshest of elements, profoundly reflected the world we are currently living in. Creative director Demna had considered cancelling Balenciaga’s AW22 presentation, questioning the usefulness of fashion in times of war and distress. The answer to...

Mar 7, 2022

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Olivier Rousteing sends love to Ukraine during Paris Fashion Week show

French designer Olivier Rousteing admitted he felt uncomfortable presenting his latest collection for Balmain at Paris Fashion Week on Wednesday in view of the war in Ukraine. "It's hard to feel right about focusing on runways and clothes, as we listen with a heavy heart to the latest news," Rousteing wrote to his 7.6 million followers on...

Mar 3, 2022

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At Paris Fashion Week, Saint Laurent takes an elegant new direction

Anthony Vaccarello took Saint Laurent in a new direction for Autumn 2022 after several seasons of youthful haute glamour. Gone were the paillettes and micro minis best for after hours dressing, gone was the overt sexiness and killer heels underscoring killer bodies. Belgian-born Vaccarello signalled in a new era, one where the body is covered in...

Mar 2, 2022

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Koché teams up with Puma and AC Milan on upcycled collection

Paris-based fashion label Koché has unveiled an upcycled football collection with AC Milan and Puma during Paris Fashion Week. The six-piece limited-edition capsule collection features unused AC Milan Puma football jerseys, which have been reworked by Koché’s founder and creative director, Christelle Kocher. The result is a celebration of sport,...

Mar 2, 2022