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Kim Jones first Fendi collection to debut in January

Kim Jones much anticipated Fendi debut will now be in January. Jones will be debuting a couture collection on January 27 for Paris Couture Week. Originally when Kim Jones was named Fendi’s artistic director of couture and womenswear collections, his first scheduled show was planned for February, so those waiting with bated breath for his debut...

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Guest designers for Paris Couture announced

The Fédération de la Haute Couture et de la Mode, France’s governing fashion body, has announced the guest designers for Paris Couture Week. Sterling Ruby, AZ Factory, and Charles de Vilmorin will join the Paris haute couture schedule. Paris Couture Week is set to run from January 25 to 28. The twelve other designers showing at Paris Couture...

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Spanish couture house YolanCris to make its debut at Paris shows

YolanCris, a label specializing in wedding dresses and gowns will hold its first fashion show in Paris on January 23, presenting its latest collection in the unique setting of the Haute Couture Week. Founded in Barcelona in 2005 by sisters Yolanda and Cristina Perez, the fashion house has not only positioned itself as one of the benchmarks of...

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Maison Margiela and Givenchy wow Paris haute couture

British designers kicked up a storm Wednesday at Paris haute couture week with highly-praised shows from Givenchy's Clare Waight Keller and John Galliano at Maison Margiela. Waight Keller made a flawless haute couture debut late Tuesday with critics swooning over her moonlit sonata in black and white. And Galliano, who showed his first Margiela...

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‘Christian Dior, Dream Couturier’ opens at Musée Les Arts Décoratifs

A huge show about the fabled French fashion house Christian Dior which opens Wednesday has had a galaxy of stars making the pilgrimage to Paris. With Hollywood actresses Jennifer Lawrence, Kirsten Dunst and Kristen Stewart already in town for the label's haute couture show, Stewart's "Twilight" co-star Robert Pattinson queued with models Bella...

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Christine Hyun Mi Nielsen joins Paris fashion elite a year after getting the sack

It was the fairytale ending to a fortnight of Paris fashion shows. A year ago Danish designer Christine Hyun Mi Nielsen was fired from her high-pressure job as the director of the studio of one of the world's top brands. Fourteen months on she has her own label -- Hyun Mi Nielsen -- with a show on the haute couture catwalk Thursday, the very...

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Vetements owns the catwalk at Paris Couture Week

London - Paris fashion can't get enough of its new enfant terrible Demna Gvasalia, whose rebel Vetements label has been ridiculing its conventions for the last two years. But the trendsetting Georgian -- who now also designs for Balenciaga -- outdid himself at a haute couture week show on Tuesday by presenting a homeless man with a coat fastened...

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Chanel goes for golden age Hollywood glamour in Paris couture show

Chanel went all out for glitter in its Paris haute couture show Tuesday that channelled the full-on glamour of silver screen goddesses like Marlene Dietrich. You could almost imagine the German diva air kissing designer Karl Lagerfeld -- "Mein Liebling!" -- in the hall of mirrors he had built inside the Grand Palais which was inspired by the...

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PFW video: Christian Dior Couture SS 09

According to John Galliano it is his job to make people dream. "There is a credit crunch and not a creative crunch" he said.