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French Fashion Council sees changes

The French fashion council - Fédération Française de la Couture du Prêt à Porter des Couturiers et des Créateurs de Mode - this week stated Kering chairman François-Henri Pinault has been elected to its executive committee. Pinault was selected in his capacity as president of Yves Saint Laurent. It was a week of shuffling as the board of the...

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Paris Fashion Week final

It was all eyes on Louis Vuitton once more, as Nicolas Ghesquière showed his second collection for the French fashion house. The show, which took place in Paris' Bois de Boulogne in the new Fondation Louis Vuitton structure designed by Frank Gehry, had a strong 70s vibe, with denim, separates and leather as the main focus. But however simplistic...

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Paris Fashion Week Day 4

Showcasing its collation at the Louve, Raf Simons for Dior showed an ovoid and slim silhouettes in a collection that referenced both the 18th century as it did the modern age. There were light cotton broderie anglaise dresses, smocks and cropped knitted jackets with a techno-sport application. There were plenty of florals, but the frock coat was...

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Paris: The fashion week circus

There was a time when the front row was devoid of celebrity and famous faces. Instead, the seating at salons and runways were reserved for press, private clients, buyers and those that mattered in the industry, like investors, tastemakers, opinion leaders. The hierarchy of seating was easy: on the front row you wouldseat a publication's editor...

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Paris Fashion Week Day 3

There is always a sense of rawness in a Rick Owens collection, probing a balance between severity and beauty. For SS15 Owens, best known for his jerseys, silks and fine leather, used tulle, a traditional couture fabric, but he used it in a more directional aesthetic. Raw-edged and layered on the hips, the tulle was architectural on traditional...

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Vionnet makes its mark at PFW

INTERVIEW_ For a woman with everything, including several gold mines, Kazakh oligarch Goga Ashkenazi's purchase of the fabled Vionnet Paris fashion house in 2012 was the chance of a lifetime, even if not everyone in fashion welcomed it. With no real background in fashion, the glamorous, Oxford University-educated Ashkenazi -- who counts...

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Guy Laroche presents 'no-nonsense' looks during PFW

Guy Laroche designer Marcel Marongiu on Wednesday opted for modern, feminine looks at the Paris ready-to-wear shows with a "no-nonsense" collection featuring streamlined graphic shapes, plunging necklines and experimental materials. On day two of Paris fashion week, Marongiu teamed light silk overalls with bikini tops and tuxedos with...

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Corrie Nielsen kicks off PFW with beehive hair and Mad-Men styled skirts

Nine days of Paris fashion got off to a retro start Tuesday with a 1960s-inspiredcollection from Corrie Nielsen featuring beehive hair and Mad Men-style looks with futuristic, voluminous twists. Citing 1960s icons Brigitte Bardot and Jane Birkin as influences, Nielsen dedicated the collection to "the women of the 1960s who shaped and influenced...

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PFW takes to the catwalks

Flamboyant designer Jean Paul Gaultier's last ready-to-wear show will provide an emotional highlight of nine days of fashion collections due to get underway in Paris on Tuesday. The 62-year-old showman of the catwalks is to bow out of ready-to-wear after nearly 40 years to concentrate on his couture collections. The designer has said the...

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Ralph Toledano elected president of Fédération Française de la Couture

Ralph Toledano, who has been president of Puig’s fashion division since 2012, has been elected as president of the Fédération Française de la Couture, du Prêt-à-Porter des Couturiers et des Créateurs de Mode, effective from September. He succeeds Didier Grumbach, who has been the head of the federation since 1998, and decided not to seek the...

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John Galliano to skip out on men's fashion week

The eponymous fashion label founded by British designer John Galliano will bemissing out on the upcoming men's fashion week, as the label will not be showing its menswear collection in Paris next month. The fashion label, which is currently helmed by British designer Bill Gaytten, is not listed on the initial show calendar that was published by...

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Paris Fashion Week round-up

CÉLINE Phoebe Philo took menswear, or rather women wearing men's clothing, as inspiration for her AW14 collection. Showing 42 looks, the collection was rife with coats, but the silhouette was long and slim, with just a few cocooning or flaring at the end. Coat dresses, knitted trousers and wrapped skirts made for a look that said less-is-more,...