Paris Mens Fashion Week news and archive

Boys can be girls: what we learned from Paris fashion week

As Paris men's fashion week comes to an end Sunday we look at four things we learned from a packed and at times emotional six days: Men don't have to be men The pressure is off, boys. Dress like you did when you were a kid raiding your mother's wardrobe. That seems to be the big message from a fashion week where the gender lines have never been...

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Kim Jones lightens up Dior with star-studded debut

Designer Kim Jones brought a fresh new vision of streetwise couture to Dior Homme in his celebrity-packed debut show for the fabled label at Paris men's fashion week Saturday. With so many A-listers cram-packed in the front row that Dior heiress Delphine Arnault and her billionaire boyfriend Xavier Niel had to sit on the steps, old and new money...

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Liberate men with satin and corsets: fashion icon Galliano

John Galliano set out Friday to redefine 21st-century masculinity with corsets, sensual satins and vinyl trousers to "liberate" men from their sartorial shackles. The British designer's new collection for Maison Margiela at Paris men's fashion week not only blurred the lines between genders, but blew them away with shiny pink ribbon belts and a...

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PMFW sees tough guys on the catwalk

The boot boys are back. And they have never looked so elegant. Dior, the French fashion house known for the dreamy beauty of its clothes, showed a new much tougher side in its Paris menswear show Saturday. It's wasn't quite skinhead chic but it wasn't far from it with every trope in the punk wardrobe from string vests to dangling trouser braces...

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4 things we've learned from Paris Men's Fashion Week

As the last of the Paris menswear collections go down runways Sunday, we survey the big themes of the week's fashion shows. The grand finale of @Kris_Van_Assche's #DiorHomme Summer 2017 show. See all the looks from the collection now on DIOR.com. #PFW A photo posted by Dior Official (@dior) on Jun 25, 2016 at 10:03am PDT Fashion (still) loves...

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Balenciaga takes Paris Men's Fashion Week by storm

A mark was made in fashion history today as the 99 year old luxury fashion house, founded by master tailor Cristóbal Balanciaga, held its debut men's wear fashion show, under the creative direction of Demna Gvasalia, during Paris Men's Fashion Week. The collection was presented against the backdrop of Paris’ Lycée Saint-Louis-de-Gonzague rooftop...

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Paris Men's Fashion Week Review

The return of sportswear to mens' wardrobes was echoed at the Paris shows, albeit with less decorum than the Italian presentations and with a little more edge. Take for example the much-talked about Givenchy show, with Ricardo Tisci's Birds of Paradise print shown on shorts, jackets, tops and just about anything: from a distance they could be...