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LVMH cancels plans to build research centre near grounds Paris Polytechnic Institute
Jan 26, 2023 - Schools
Paris - The luxury goods group LVMH has decided not to set up its research centre on the Saclay plateau in the Essonne department of France, near the engineering school of the Paris Polytechnic Institute (IP Paris), which had given the green light to the project last November despite opposition from several students. The school announced the...
Fashion launches into geopolitics to support Ukraine with leopard print outfits
Jan 25, 2023 - Fashion
The hundreds of people posting Instagram selfies in leopard-print outfits in recent days launched fashion into geopolitics for Ukraine's successful campaign to get Germany's powerful Leopard battle tanks. Just moments after Germany finally agreed to deliver 14 Leopard tanks on Wednesday, Presidential chief of staff Andriy Yermak joined in...
UK Amazon workers strike amid cost-of-living crisis
Jan 25, 2023 - Report
Online retail giant Amazon was Wednesday facing its first strike by UK workers, who are protesting over a pay rise deemed unacceptable in a cost-of-living crisis. A few hundred workers at a warehouse in Coventry, central England, have walked out over a pay increase worth five percent, less than half the current UK inflation rate. It comes as...
Walmart lifts US wages in stores again amid tight labor market
Jan 25, 2023 - Business
Walmart announced Tuesday it will again raise pay for hourly staff, an indication of persistent tightness in the labor market for front-line employees despite layoffs in the tech sector. The retail giant, the biggest private employer in the United States, is boosting the pay range at US stores to between 14 and 19 dollars an hour from the prior...
Gen Z driving the second-hand luxury watch market
Jan 25, 2023 - Fashion
Swiss watches are in high demand these days, but sales of second-hand timepieces are also booming, driven by Generation Z buyers who want luxury goods but are also sustainability-minded. The global second-hand watch market is estimated at nearly 20 billion Swiss francs (21.7 billion dollars) and could reach 35 billion francs by 2030, according...
Josephine Baker and the Roaring Twenties celebrated by Dior
Jan 24, 2023 - Fashion
From cabaret feathers to sleek suits and velvet robes, Dior celebrated Josephine Baker and the wild freedom of the Roaring Twenties in a celeb-packed show on Monday to kickstart haute couture week in Paris. A parade of stars were in the front row, including Anya Taylor-Joy, Kirsten Dunst, Rosamund Pike and K-Pop's Jisoo, to see Chiuru's homage...
The Mumbai atelier that's the secret workshop of top French fashion
Jan 24, 2023 - Fashion
Sitting in a lotus position, four men weave glittering beads through gold thread on an organza sheet, carefully constructing a wedding dress that will soon wow crowds at Paris Fashion Week. For once, the French couturier behind the design, Julien Fournie, is determined to put these craftsmen in the spotlight: his new collection, showing in Paris...
Rosalia, women designers, stark contrasts: Paris menswear highlights
Jan 23, 2023 - Fashion
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...
Dior in stark contrast to Louis Vuitton at Paris Fashion Week
Jan 23, 2023 - Fashion
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...
Bode returns to Paris with fashion inspired by family
Jan 23, 2023 - Fashion
Award-winning US designer Emily Bode returned to Paris on Saturday after a pandemic-induced break with a vintage collection inspired by her mother and aunts. One of the most talked-about new designers, and one of several young women making a mark in menswear, the 33-year-old's eponymous label branched out into womenswear for the first time as...