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Kunsthalle München to explore Viktor&Rolf’s fashion statements

Kunsthalle München museum in Munich, Germany, is to host a fashion exhibition dedicated to Dutch fashion duo Viktor Horsting and Rolf Snoeren featuring more than 100 of their most daring creations. ‘Viktor&Rolf: Fashion Statements’ opens in February 2024 and will mark the first major retrospective on Viktor&Rolf in Germany. The exhibition,...

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Melissa continues collaboration with Viktor and Rolf

Brazilian footwear and accessories brand Melissa is continuing its collaboration with Dutch fashion house Viktor and Rolf with an haute couture jelly collection for spring/summer 2021. The collaboration with Viktor and Rolf signifies “the reinvention of haute couture within the Melissa universe,” explains the footwear brand, combined with Viktor...

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Viktor and Rolf embraces coronavirus for haute couture

Viktor and Rolf brought their unique sense of humour and social commentary to Paris Haute Couture Week with a collection inspired by the challenging unprecedented times caused by Covid-19, with a short film featuring singer Mika offering deadpan commentary on the looks in the style of a British newsreel from the Fifties. In the show notes,...

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Alice In Wonderland to be the focus of new V&A exhibition

London’s V&A has announced that its landmark exhibition for 2020 will be ‘Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser’ celebrating the fantastical and imaginative Alice In Wonderland story with more than 300 objects spanning film, performance, fashion, art, music and photography, including fashion from Iris van Herpen and Viktor and Rolf. Opening on June 27,...

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Bridal Fashion Week Fall 2020 highlights

While ready-to-wear brands have just shown their spring/summer 2020 collections during New York, London, Milan and Paris fashion weeks, the biggest brands in bridal, ranging from Vera Wang to Monique Lhuillier and Galia Lahav showcased their autumn/winter 2020 bridal ranges as part of Bridal Fashion Week in New York. FashionUnited has picked out...

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New CEO at Viktor & Rolf

London - Viktor & Rolf has appointed Andrea Collesei as its new chief executive officer, as the Dutch fashion label looks to reposition itself in the top luxury segment. Collesei joins from Italian fashion brand Diesel, which like Viktor & Rolf is part of Renzo Rosso’s OTB Holdings, where he held various roles, most recent serving as head of...

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Flowers dominant the catwalks of Paris Haute Couture Week

Following the days of menswear fashion shows in Paris, haute couture collections took the catwalks from Tuesday to Thursday. Despite the event's overall extravaganza, the number of visitors attending the shows was less than the previous edition. Hotels in the area reported a 9 percent decline in guests during Paris Fashion Week, which was most...

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Viktor and Rolf virtual show

Once more, Dutch design duo Viktor and Rolf moved away from the traditional catwalk show by presenting their SS09 collection via a virtual show online. The designers opted for a short movie filmed in the salon of Viktor & Rolf’s virtual house accessible on their website. The show was initially available to an invited ‘audience’ only where they...