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Paris Fashion Week to go digital due to Covid-19

The Fédération de la Haute Couture et de la Mode has confirmed that Paris Men’s Fashion Week and Haute Couture Week will still go ahead, however, there will be no invited guests this season due to Covid-19 restrictions in the country. In an e-mail to FashionUnited, the Fédération de la Haute Couture et de la Mode explained that all shows and...

Jan 11, 2021

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The Fédération de la Haute Couture et de la Mode announces January fashion week schedules

In less than one month Paris will resume its fashion weeks for both menswear and haute couture. On Thursday France’s Fédération de la Haute Couture et de la Mode (FHCM) announced the provisional schedules for both fashion weeks. New additions to the official menswear calendar include Wales Bonner, Kolor, and LGN Louis-Gabriel Nouchi. The...

Dec 24, 2020

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Video: ShowStudio reviews its fashion film submissions

In this video, ShowStudio is joined by filmmaker Raquel Couceiro to critique the fashion website’s fashion film submissions from location, soundtrack, narrative, length and grading to styling and make-up. Watch the video below. Source: ShowStudio via YouTube Photo credit: ShowStudio, Facebook

Nov 17, 2020

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Video: ShowStudio round-up Paris Fashion Week

In this video, Calum Knight and Hetty Mahlich round-up Paris Fashion Week. The pair discuss the designers who successfully responded to the Covid-19 pandemic, the designers who used this season to develop brand narratives and the ones who accomplished both the IRL and URL spaces.Watch the video below. Source: ShowStudio via YouTube Photo credit:...

Oct 30, 2020

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In a post-pandemic fashion world, the catwalk will still reign

The reformatting of global fashion weeks in 2020 was never by choice. Travel restricted buyers, press and consumers need to see collections and business must continue, hence a digital version was borne. While images and videos of fashion shows have an extended life on digital channels and social media outside of the 20 minutes it takes to stage...

Oct 27, 2020

Fashion

In a post-pandemic fashion world, the catwalk will reign

The reformatting of global fashion weeks in 2020 was never by choice. Travel restricted buyers, press and consumers need to see collections and business must continue, hence a digital version was borne. While images and videos of fashion shows have an extended life on digital channels and social media outside of the 20 minutes it takes to stage...

Oct 27, 2020

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Raf Simons launches womenswear

Raf Simons has made a legendary name for himself working at storied design houses. The designer has been creative director of Jil Sander, Christian Dior, Calvin Klein, and now co-creative director of Prada alongside Miuccia Prada. Despite his career at many iconic fashion houses, Simons has also been the force behind his own namesake label,...

Oct 26, 2020

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PFW: Key shows from the Spring/Summer 2021 edition

At Paris Fashion Week one of the key words summing up SS21 was ‘home made’. A renewed focus of craft, craftsmanship and traditional home making carried through from Milan and into the French capital. The natural world and human’s impact upon it were also talking points addressed by many designers via increased emphasis on sustainable initiatives...

Oct 9, 2020

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PFW: Louis Vuitton closes with a political statement and genderless looks

Chanel went back to the timeless glamour of black and white Hollywood movieswhile Louis Vuitton embraced a gender neutral future on the last day of Paris fashion week Tuesday. While Chanel looked back, Nicolas Ghesquiere's Louis Vuitton could not be more resolutely now, with the opening look a sweater emblazoned with "Vote", a rallying call for...

Oct 7, 2020

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Digital hit: Dior's spring fashion show nears 100 million views

Dior is proving to be a master of engagement with the livestream of its spring summer 2021 ready-to-wear show garnering over 95 million views. Held on 29 September during Paris Fashion Week, a downsized audience didn’t prevent the show from reaching a digital public. According to WWD Dior’s show was livestreamed on 12 global platforms, where...

Oct 7, 2020

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Chanel channels old Hollywood glamour for SS21 show

Chanel went back to the timeless glamour of black and white Hollywood movies in its blockbuster show on the last day of Paris fashion week Tuesday. In its biggest catwalk spectacle since designer Virginie Viard took over the fabled French house from Karl Lagerfeld after his death last year, an army of the world's top supermodels walked under a...

Oct 6, 2020

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Video: Isabel Marant presents SS21 show

Isabel Marant presented her SS21 collection during Paris Fashion Week. The show was a combination of a runway with dancing and music. Movement was the big element, with something to be seen all over the large area of the show. View the entire presentation in the 16-minute film below. Image: Isabel Marant SS21. Video: Isabel Marant via YouTube

Oct 6, 2020