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Spain's Alled-Martínez and Arturo Obegero spotlight knitwear and velvet in Paris
Spanish representation at this season's Paris Fashion Week Men's was bolstered by innovative offerings for avant-garde gents, designed by talents honed at Givenchy and Lanvin.
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Paris Couture’s opening day: Giambattista Valli, Julie de Libran and Azzaro by Olivier Theyskens
The opening day of Paris haute couture week ended with three experienced designers -- Giambattista Valli, Julie de Libran and Olivier Theyskens at Azzaro -- showing collections that captured the couture's energy.
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Schiaparelli opens Paris couture week with defiantly golden surrealism from Daniel Roseberry
Fresh from dressing Lady Gaga in Schiaparelli for the inauguration, American-born couturier Daniel Roseberry unveiled a defiantly surreal collection for Schiaparelli on Monday, to open the Paris haute couture season.
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Casablanca Royale on the Champs-Élysées
Casablanca, the upbeat party-hearty French brand enjoying explosive growth, debuted its first womenswear collection this weekend with a Casino Royale-style after-party video shot on the Champs-Élysées.
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Hermès Homme: Performance broadcast from the world’s greatest furniture warehouse
The architecture was almost as much a star as the clothes in the latest "performance broadcast" by the esteemed house of Hermès, which unveiled its Fall 2021 collection for men on Saturday.
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Loewe's latest menswear: Clothing in a literary context
Fashion’s latest show-in-a-book came from Loewe, in a collection unveiled Saturday that revolves around the work of Joe Brainard, the New York artist noted for Pop Art, subversive comic books and faux religious collage.
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Wales Bonner completes her fashion trilogy with Saint Lucia chic
Black culture encountered British classicism again at Wales Bonner, where the leitmotif this season was the poetry of Derek Walcott, the Nobel Prize winner born on the small Caribbean island of Saint Lucia.
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Paul Smith’s remastered Greatest Hits for second half-century
Not many designers can ever boast that they have entered a second half-century of career, but Sir Paul Smith can, and did, this week – celebrating with a remastered menswear collection of many of his greatest hits.
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Despite the pandemic, Paris Haute Couture Week enjoying a renaissance
Pandemic or not, the ultimate expression of luxury in fashion, the Paris haute couture season, will debut digitally Monday with almost 30 houses vying for the attention of the world’s most expensively dressed women.
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Rikard Frost is new Filippa K CEO, starts this spring
Scandinavian fashion label Filippa K has named Alexander Wang’s Rikard Frost as its new CEO as of April, marking “an exciting new chapter for the brand” as it grows internationally.
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Charles Tyrwhitt sales plunged last year, but CEO hopeful of rebound
The founder of shirts specialist Charles Tyrwhitt said business “fell off a cliff” last year as stores were forced to close, consumers reined-in spending and worked from home so his products stayed on the rails.
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Victoria Beckham pre-Covid losses grow, underlying progress in right direction
Losses widened at Victoria Beckham’s fashion company, despite rising sales, in the year before the pandemic as it invested in its beauty launch, results due to be filed at Companies House have shown.
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Australian Fashion Week gains new title partner, announces schedule
Ahead of the 2021 fashion season, Australian Fashion Week has gained a new title sponsor as it evolves its mission to focus on accessibility, diversity and inclusion, and sustainability.
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Kamala Harris’ inauguration looks boost buzz around Black-led brands
According to LaunchMetrics, the looks worn by the U.S.’s first female vice president at this week’s Presidential Inauguration stirred up significant interest around Christopher John Rogers, Sergio Hudson and Pyer Moss.
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Rick Owens: Fashionable heroes at a Venetian military shrine
President Joe Biden began his presidency honoring the fallen dead at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Washington on Wednesday. A day later, Rick Owens staged his show at a Venetian shrine to soldiers lost in war.
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Mytheresa CEO Michael Kliger on taking fashion’s latest billion-dollar brand public
If anyone is enjoying a great January it has to be Michael Kliger, CEO of Mytheresa.com, who this month pulled off an IPO valuing the online retailer at $2.2 billion. We spoke with him three hours before going public.
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