French fashion house Leonard Paris, known for its iconic silk jerseys and prints, has been acquired by Japanese wholesale and distribution company Sankyo Seiko. Leonard Paris, founded in 1958 by M. Daniel Tribouillard, has been collaborating with Sankyo Seiko for more than fifty years, with the wholesale company helping to establish the French...
Jul 26, 2022
Victoria Beckham will join the official line-up of Paris Fashion Week with a live runway show this autumn, the organisers announced on Wednesday. The British designer and former Spice Girl has previously presented in London and New York, though she has not staged a live runway show since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. She will present her...
Jul 20, 2022
France’s official fashion body, Fédération de Haute Couture et de la Mode (FHCM), has elected Bruno Pavlosky as president. Pavlosky succeeds Ralph Toledano and was elected by the Federation’s governing board and executive committee. The role of president is a term of four years. The committee is the FHCM's decision-making body, administered by 6...
Jul 4, 2022
Menswear proved to be in reinvigorated form as Paris Fashion Week ended on Sunday, with spectacle, innovation and the return of big-name designers to the catwalk. The week concluded with the surprising return of fabled French designer Hedi Slimane, formerly of Dior and Saint Laurent and now with Celine. Two years ago, he had announced he was...
Jun 27, 2022
The Paris shows put the playfulness back into Fashion Week with youth cultures and the world of art inspiring a wave of creativity and bold statements. Modern art references provided colourful vibrancy with meaning as designers continued to explore and push gender boundaries, reassess notions of femininity and remain true to their sustainable...
Mar 11, 2022
Paris Fashion Week FW22 has come to an end and with it the major FW22 ready-to-wear runway season. It started and finished under a cloud of war and no one can predict what will happen in the coming days and weeks. Olivier Rousteing admitted to feeling uncomfortable presenting the FW22 Balmain collection while witnessing the violent attack on...
Mar 10, 2022
Chanel opened the final day of Paris Fashion Week with an explosion of tweed, taking its guests on a journey along the River Tweed, inspired by walks founder Gabrielle Chanel took in Scotland. Everything about the French fashion house’s autumn/winter 2022 show was about tweed, from the collection to the invite, and even the Grand Palais Éphémère...
Mar 9, 2022
Stella McCartney dedicated her catwalk show during Paris Fashion Week to the people of Ukraine along with an anti-war message from John Lennon’s ‘Give Peace a Chance’ song and John F. Kennedy’s peace speech. The designer also added in her show notes that she was donating an undisclosed sum to Care, an organisation providing emergency crisis...
Mar 8, 2022
Paris Fashion Week, which ends on Tuesday, has been over-shadowed by the war in Ukraine, with designers struggling for ways to balance declarations of solidarity with the glamour and spectacle of their shows. Some offered heartfelt tributes to the Ukrainian people alongside their women's autumn-winter collections -- none more so than Balenciaga...
Valentino creative director Pierpaolo Piccioli turned Le Carreau du Temple into a pinkscape during Paris Fashion Week to present an autumn/winter 2022 collection almost entirely in pink. This wasn’t just any shade of pink, this was Valentino ‘Pink PP’ a bright magenta hue created by Piccioli in collaboration with Pantone. The pink-out was...
Mar 7, 2022
Balenciaga’s apocalyptic set of a white rotund, where models walked against fierce winds and snow, the harshest of elements, profoundly reflected the world we are currently living in. Creative director Demna had considered cancelling Balenciaga’s AW22 presentation, questioning the usefulness of fashion in times of war and distress. The answer to...
French designer Olivier Rousteing admitted he felt uncomfortable presenting his latest collection for Balmain at Paris Fashion Week on Wednesday in view of the war in Ukraine. "It's hard to feel right about focusing on runways and clothes, as we listen with a heavy heart to the latest news," Rousteing wrote to his 7.6 million followers on...
Mar 3, 2022
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