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Loewe puts on spring explosion of flowers and form at Paris Fashion Week
Read full article: Loewe puts on spring explosion of flowers and form at Paris Fashion WeekLoewe’s latest collection dazzled at Paris Fashion Week Friday, presenting an explosion of flowers and form that showcased designer onathan Anderson’s innovative spirit.
Loewe fuses high and low, tailoring and couture, to wow Paris Fashion Week
Read full article: Loewe fuses high and low, tailoring and couture, to wow Paris Fashion WeekAt Paris Fashion Week, Loewe presented a serene, green labyrinthine art gallery at Chateau de Vincennes, immersing guests in woodland tranquility.
Dior triumphs melding women's past and future, while Saint Laurent puts on study in power dressing
Read full article: Dior triumphs melding women's past and future, while Saint Laurent puts on study in power dressingAmid the electric ambiance of strobe lights and an usually sweltering Parisian fall, Dior presented its spring/summer 2024 womenswear collection.
Dior's Kim Jones celebrates 5 years as designer in gender-fluid Paris men's show
Read full article: Dior's Kim Jones celebrates 5 years as designer in gender-fluid Paris men's showThe historic courtyards of the Ecole Militaire served as the grand stage for Dior’s men’s show on Friday, a spectacle that played out under the watchful eye of the Eiffel Tower.
Monumental animal art infuses Chanel's gleaming couture show
Read full article: Monumental animal art infuses Chanel's gleaming couture showArt has returned to a glittering Chanel universe, with monumental animal sculptures gathering in the center of the runway-in-the-round for its Paris Fashion Week couture show.
Controversy, frivolity mark day one of Paris Fashion Week
Read full article: Controversy, frivolity mark day one of Paris Fashion WeekThe pioneering Black performer Josephine Baker — who left the United States to find global fame in Paris in the 1920s — was Dior’s muse for an old school spring couture collection of archetypal classicism.
Paris Fashion Week channels humor, animated film for spring
Read full article: Paris Fashion Week channels humor, animated film for springAs weary fashionistas made it to the final sprint of Paris Fashion Week’s 96 physical and digital spring-summer shows, Saturday’s runways provided the spark to keep the energy going despite the rain and gray skies.
This month's Paris Fashion Week goes totally digital
Read full article: This month's Paris Fashion Week goes totally digitalFILE - In this March 1, 2020 file photo, a model wears a creation for the Valentino fashion collection during Women's fashion week Fall/Winter 2020/21 presented in Paris. Ending the confusion over the fate of Paris Fashion Week, French fashion's regulatory body has said that this month's Paris men's and haute couture fashion shows will be strictly audience-free over coronavirus fears. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, File)PARIS – Ending the confusion over the fate of Paris Fashion Week, French fashion's regulatory body has said that this month's Paris men’s and haute couture shows will be strictly audience-free over coronavirus fears. They were among four brands planning live shows this round. The Milan Fashion Week calendar from Jan. 15-19 is much scaled back from usual, with just 40 brands participating.
Takada death upends Paris fashion; Givenchy unveils designer
Read full article: Takada death upends Paris fashion; Givenchy unveils designerPARIS – Paris Fashion Week was upended Sunday by the news of fashion designer Kenzo Takada's death at age 81. Like Milan before it, Paris is undertaking an unusual fashion season for Spring-Summer 2021 because of the coronavirus pandemic. But the brand may have hoped such a big new beginning would have come under better days and not under the virus-hit Paris Fashion Week. For a 34-year-old, Williams has quite a resume -- after having designed for Kanye West and Lady Gaga and founding the influential urban fashion house 1017 ALYX 9SM. “It is with immense sadness that KENZO has learned of the passing of our founder,” the fashion house said in a statement.
Hermes plays with depth in surrealist Paris show
Read full article: Hermes plays with depth in surrealist Paris showPARIS – Hermes headlined Saturday’s installment of Paris Fashion Week with a cinematic, surrealist runway staging, but the lack of celebrities attending and the patchy drizzle put a slight dampener on the usually high-octane events. Like Milan before it, Paris is undertaking an unusual fashion season for Spring-Summer 2021 because of the coronavirus pandemic. Depth was indeed the key theme for minimalist designer Nadège Vanhee-Cybulski, but the magic and mystery were sometimes missing in the clothes. ESTER MANAS LOVES EVERYONEEster Manas is a brand that has been making ripples at Paris Fashion Week in recent seaasons with a body positive approach that is, sadly, all too rare. Hair sprayed back in a bouffant and wearing a loose red check dress and a large black-gold chain, the 79-year-old Westwood looked free, glamorous and empowered.
Kenzo gets the buzz at bee-themed Paris Fashion Week show
Read full article: Kenzo gets the buzz at bee-themed Paris Fashion Week showPARIS – A hybrid Paris Fashion Week continued Wednesday featuring a stand out live runway show from socially-distanced Kenzo, but no sign of any A-list celebrities. Guests smiled as they breathed in the fresh air of the inner city garden amid the sounds of the fountain. The designer used the Kenzo touchstone of the safari or the trek, and reinterpreted the sand dust visor as a netted beekeeper’s mask. BALMAIN PLAYS A TRICKBy thinking outside the box, Balmain tackled the question of whether the reduced, virus-era fashion week would fail to attract star power to Paris. THE ECO-INVITEIt took perhaps a deadly global pandemic for the fashion industry to change its wasteful and un-ecological system of invitations.
As Paris Fashion Week is streamed, critics look to future
Read full article: As Paris Fashion Week is streamed, critics look to futureFILE - In this Feb. 26, 2020 file photo, models wear creations for the Kenzo fashion collection during Women's fashion week Fall/Winter 2020/21 presented in Paris. The coronavirus pandemic has instilled extra unpredictability into the already fickle Paris Fashion Week. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File)PARIS The coronavirus pandemic has instilled extra unpredictability into the already fickle Paris Fashion Week. No one from the public will be allowed to see the clothes in person at all, in fact, during this on-screen-only version of fashion week that starts Monday. The new digital Paris Fashion Week calendar isn't bad for everyone.
Cardi B flexes during Paris Fashion Week in head-to-toe outfit
Read full article: Cardi B flexes during Paris Fashion Week in head-to-toe outfitCardi B accepts the award for Top Hot 100 Song for "Girls Like You" (Maroon 5 featuring Cardi B) during the 2019 Billboard Music Awards at MGM Grand Garden Arena on May 1, 2019, in Las Vegas. But after flaunting her Paris Fashion Week outfit, it's safe to say Cardi B was a bit hotter than usual. While Cardi gave no explanation for why she was wearing the outfit, she did address fans who said they missed her at New York Fashion Week. "I heard you...were missing me at Fashion Week New York," she said in the video. Paris Fashion Week runs through October 1, 2019.
Celine Dion styled at Paris Fashion Week
Read full article: Celine Dion styled at Paris Fashion WeekCeline Dion attends the Alexandre Vauthier Haute Couture Fall/Winter 2019 2020 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on July 2, 2019, in Paris. (CNN) - Cline Dion made the streets of Paris her own personal runway in celebration of the city's Fashion Week. The "My Heart Will Go On" singer wore a variety of looks, including one colorful outfit that didn't require pants. That look was first worn by Gigi Hadid on the Off-White runway, but Dion obviously had her own take on it, paring it with heels and sunglasses. Dion looked like a dream in a ruffled pink Miu Miu party gown with a black accent bow.