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Behind Saudi Arabia's ambitious strategy to promote local fashion

Saudi fashion is determined to expand on the international stage. To this end, the country of Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MbS) recently organised a double event during Men's Fashion Week and Haute Couture Week. Firstly, the operation took place in a showroom set up at the Cité de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine from 24 to 27...

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At Paris Men’s Fashion Week SS24, Asia makes the industry go round

Sales of the men's spring-summer 2024 ready-to-wear collections, which are now drawing to a close, set the tone for a Paris Fashion Week that welcomed an upsurge in exhibiting brands and the return of Asian buyers. Looking back on our comparison with the Cannes Film Festival, discussed in a previous article, on the sidelines of show business,...

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PMFW SS24: Before the show, there is business

Paris Fashion Week, which presented the men's spring/summer 2024 collections, has just come to a close. To get an idea of what it was like, we can draw a parallel with the Cannes Film Festival. Front and centre were the 80 brands on the official FHCM calendar, playing the catwalk card (42) and presentations (38) to give themselves international...

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Pharrell Williams to set the stage for Louis Vuitton at Paris Men's Fashion Week

Louis Vuitton will unveil its first menswear collection under newly appointed creative director Pharrell Williams. The brand will inaugurate the upcoming men's fashion week in Paris, which is scheduled from June 20 to 25. The next edition will feature a slightly higher number of shows compared to last year, with 42 fashion shows in total, while...

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Rosalia, women designers, stark contrasts: Paris menswear highlights

One of the buzziest menswear weeks in recent memory wrapped in Paris on Sunday. Here are some of the highlights: Dior vs Louis Vuitton Two very different approaches from two of the biggest houses, who built giant rival hangars on either end of the Tuileries Gardens that run through central Paris. While Vuitton created an entire apartment full of...

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Dior in stark contrast to Louis Vuitton at Paris Fashion Week

Dior provided the yin to Louis Vuitton's yang in Paris on Friday, with a serious and elegant response to its rival's flashy fashion week spectacle the day before. Dior and Louis Vuitton have both built giant hangars on either end of the Tuileries gardens that run through central Paris -- akin to the way their billionaire owners have built rival...

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Paris Fashion Week Men’s returns to fully physical calendar

The Fédération de la Haute Couture et de la Mode (FHCM) has unveiled its calendar for the upcoming Paris Fashion Week Men’s for the autumn/winter season 2023-24, with a number of new additions and notable returns set to take place. The event will go ahead from January 17 to 22, with a total of 48 shows and 33 presentations spread over the course...

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Men’s fashion week to return to normalcy in Paris

It is back to the old ways for men's fashion week, which kicks off in Paris on Tuesday, with the last pandemic-era restrictions cleared and the surprise return of Hedi Slimane of Celine, who had previously called official fashion shows "obsolete". Even during previous waves of infections, the fashion crowd was never particularly keen to see...

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Paris fashion week men's 2022 trends

Trendstop brings FashionUnited readers an insight into Paris men’s Fashion Week for Fall Winter 2022-23. Breaking down gender barriers underpinned many of the Paris collections as designers experimented with a more fluid approach to menswear. Hints of handicrafts, vibrant prints and bold use of colour provided exciting, unexpected contrasts when...

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Au revoir Virgil, welcome Nigo: men's week in Paris and Milan, from farewells to rebirths

Fashion has been shaken up for several years now. While the industry is reflecting on sustainability and racism, among other things, the pandemic has made everything even more complex. The traditional fashion week survives, but it has also been transformed. At first glance, the calendars seem lighter, with fewer catwalk shows. Meanwhile, the...

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Kim Jones presents Dior menswear FW22 with Covid frustration

Kim Jones may be borrowing from Dior's most iconic female looks for his latest menswear collection but that doesn't mean he believes gender boundaries are ready to disappear yet. "We live in cities and they are incredibly open, but go outside and it's not the same," Jones told AFP at his studio in Paris. "There are 40 countries in the world...

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Young French label Egonlab embracing NFTs and genderless fashion

Egonlab, making it in fashion today means embracing many things at once -- from traditional runway shows to digital clothes, and even using your own grandparents as models. Egonlab launched two years ago just as the fashion industry was forced online by the pandemic. Still in their 20s, they knew how to embrace the moment, with bold online...