PARIS FASHION WEEK news and archive

Racers, cows and Balenciagamania: Street styles from Milan and Paris

The fashion weeks of the SS23 season are behind us. However, as is well known, the trends can not only be found on the catwalks, but also on the streets. The looks can be calm and classic, but also really wild like in the cowshed. FashionUnited has summarized what was pulled out of the streetwear cauldron during the fashion weeks in Milan and...

Oct 24, 2022

News

PFW SS23: French fashion design academy Casa93 presents a fashion show full of energy

The fifth batch of graduates from the Casa93 fashion design programme in Montreuil, France, closed Paris Fashion Week with a show that combined the anger of a generation confronted with a system that is not always favourable to them with the energy of a talented youth, ready to take on the world. Tuesday 4 October 2022: for the set design of the...

Oct 13, 2022

Fashion

Paris Fashion Week SS23 - Four Style Trends

Making a come-back after two years of hybrid presentations, Paris Fashion Week for SS23 was deemed a wild success by editors and buyers alike. There were several trends that mimicked the previous weeks and some that stood out as uniquely Parisian. Here are the four major themes of the week. Matchy matchy Image: Courtesy Vetements SS23 Several...

Oct 12, 2022

BusinessFeatured

Paris Fashion Week: What strategies did the big brands have?

In Paris, for the last week of Fashion Month, luxury players hit hard. As the sector records dazzling post-pandemic growth, its fashion brands demonstrated their power during Paris Women’s Fashion Week, which ended on October 4. To make the most of the visibility offered by Fashion Week, the labels have multiplied viral images by linking, more...

Oct 7, 2022

Fashion |In Pictures

This fashion week in pictures

Bella Hadid was of course everywhere this Paris Fashion Week from the now viral Coperni spray paint video to Victoria Beckham’s Paris debut, to Sacai to Thom Brown to Isabel Marant, no catwalk presentation was complete it seemed without an appearance of the 25-year old American (super) model. But there are more images that remain imprinted on...

Oct 7, 2022

Fashion Featured

Paris Fashion Week SS23 Review: Three Color Trends

Paris Fashion Week for Spring/Summer 2023 ended Tuesday, October 4 and the editors, buyers and influencers who flocked to see in-person shows in the French capital got to see quite a few memorable moments. From Bella Hadid in Coperni’s futuristic spray on dress and Kanye West’s entrance at Balenciaga, to the choreographed dance tribute to Issey...

Oct 7, 2022

Fashion

Kristen Stewart stars at Chanel show

Actor Kristen Stewart starred in a cinematic tribute by Chanel on the final day of Paris Fashion Week on Tuesday. The show opened with a short film starring the Stewart in which she exits a Paris cinema after watching the 1961 classic "Last Year at Marienbad". The house's founder, Gabrielle Chanel -- better known as Coco Chanel -- made the...

Oct 4, 2022

Business

L’Oréal hosts fifth edition of Paris Fashion Week event with star-studded cast

Beauty giant L’Oréal returned to Paris Fashion Week for an off-schedule show with its fifth edition of ‘Le Défilé L’Oréal Paris’. According to the group’s press release, over 2,000 people attended the public outdoor runway event, which took place at the national monument, École militaire, overlooking the Eiffel Tower. A number of the brand’s...

Oct 4, 2022

Fashion |In Pictures Featured

Innovation or gimmick: Coperni showcases spray-on fabric live at PFW

For spring/summer 2023, Parisian label Coperni placed innovation at the heart of its Paris Fashion Week show by spray-painting a slip dress onto Bella Hadid live on the catwalk. For the finale, the supermodel walked onto a platform, wearing nothing but nude underwear and one arm placed demurely across her breasts, before she was spray painted...

Oct 3, 2022

Fashion

Paris fashion week pays tribute to Issey Miyake

Japanese label Issey Miyake paid tribute to its late founder at Paris Fashion Week on Friday with the sort of choreographed dance show that he pioneered. A black and white portrait of Miyake, who died last month at the age of 84, was projected on the walls and the show began solemnly with sober monochrome outfits. But the dancers turned to...

Oct 3, 2022

BusinessFeatured

Democratization: Fashion Weeks’ secret to offset 600 million pandemic loss

The global fashion industry faces a bumpy road ahead. Not only they have to figure out their own logistics conundrums but to reinvent the supply chain, re-connect with consumers and make up for double-digit decline in revenues. At a global level, the fashion industry posted a 20 percent decline in revenues in the 2019–20 period, with margins for...

Oct 3, 2022

Fashion

Acne Studios celebrates 10-year anniversary at Paris Fashion Week

In a show designed to take the image of a twisted wedding party, Acne Studios celebrated its 10-year anniversary during the ongoing Paris Fashion Week, marking a decade since the brand first showed at the event. Its SS23 womenswear collection, which was also intertwined with a selection of menswear looks, strayed from the Swedish brands...

Sep 30, 2022