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LFWM: From survival chic to the new sensitivity
Maybe it’s all the talk and tweets about who has the biggest nuclear button between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un? For one overriding trend in London Fashion Week Men's (LFWM) this season...
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Pronounce, courtesy of GQ China: A Chinese take on chic street fashionPronounce, courtesy of GQ China: A Chinese take on chic street fashion
Finally a really rocking edgy Chinese street tailoring brand that looks set to have a major future. It is called Pronounce - a Chinese brand that seems destined to have longevity and...
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Without doubt, the most important show of the London season has to be Grace Wales Bonner, the LVMH Prize winner of two years ago; whose fall-winter collection was a wonderful study of...
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To Sunday lunch with David Beckham and his happening label Kent & Curwen, which unveiled a series of great tribes of London images shot by the noted photographer Perry Ogden beside its...
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“There is good and bad in all men,” smiled Arashi Yanagawa backstage after presenting the opening show of Saturday morning’s events of London Fashion Week Men’s.
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Even before a model had hit the catwalk, London’s most read newspaper, The Evening Standard, had billed the Ben Sherman collaboration with Henry Holland as the show of the capital’s...
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Few designers are writing a tougher fashion vernacular than Matthew Miller who presented his latest collection on three different young Indie bands in a brick-walled club under a London...
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Leave it to Jonathan Anderson to open London Fashion Week Men’s without actually staging a show but at a pop-up opening where he explained a new strategy for his fashion house – one where...
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Think of this coming weekend in London as a Double Hitter Twelfth Night. Both to celebrate the epiphany and kick off London Fashion Week Men’s, a four-day feast of some 50 events - shows;...
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The race begins for the 5th LVMH PrizeThe race begins for the 5th LVMH Prize
And they are off. Applications opened Friday for aspiring talent in the LVMH Prize, the most financially beneficial annual award in fashion. Young hopefuls - limited to under 40 years -...
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Fashion has no greater current fixation than Millennials, the Holy Grail of luxury and fashion brands; whose highly personal style is the subject of the latest book – released in time for...
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The thing one must always expect from Koché is the very unexpected – which is why its designer Christelle Kocher will stage yet another fashion first this Tuesday when she shows inside...
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With every luxury brand executive racing to build a digital empire, it’s refreshing to sit down with Bruno Pavlovsky of Chanel; whose main focus for next year will be bricks and mortar,...
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Karl Lagerfeld has been commentating on internal German politics via his illustrations for the past four years. Now, the couturier has turned his attention to foreign affairs. And his...
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Yohji Yamamoto wins DFA Lifetime Achievement AwardYohji Yamamoto wins DFA Lifetime Achievement Award
Yohji Yamamoto is about to win another award. The Japanese fashion great will on Friday night pick up his latest distinction when he receives a Design for Asia (DFA) Award in Hong Kong.
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They say never look back, and Karl Lagerfeld, despite returning to his family’s hometown in Hamburg for his latest Métiers d'Art Chanel show, certainly did not Wednesday night in this...
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Andres Sosa, the executive and driving force behind Theoutnet.com, has a vision for the Off Season fashion e-tailer and its multi-lingual, and many, currencies.
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![]( "Tommy Hilfiger to stage mega runway show in Milan")
Tommy Hilfiger to stage mega runway show in MilanTommy Hilfiger to stage mega runway show in Milan
Tommy Hilfiger is off to Italy for his next fashion extravaganza. Hilfiger will stage his fourth Tommy X Gigi collaboration with Gigi Hadid in Milan during the Italian women’s...
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Cartier's Christmas pop up in St Germain comes with multiple twistsCartier's Christmas pop up in St Germain comes with multiple twists
Both Paris and London are braced for a whole slew of new Xmas pop ups - from UK igloo markets to French concept hotel stores - but Cartier's St Germain ephemeral boutique, unlike other...
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The key to winning a loyal following in the new generation of Millennials – the key target market for all fashion houses - is emotion, insists François Henri Pinault, CEO of French luxury...
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The extended Kering Group is believed to be about to complete negotiations to buy a substantial stake in Courrèges, the French fashion house famed for its Futurist style.
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The Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture – the governing body of high fashion in France – has elected two houses, Christophe Josse and Noureddine Amir, to be guest members of its...
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Designer Rahul Mishra, the new brand ambassador of Istituto Marangoni, has a dream. To employ one million people. With the help of Amazon, his fashion house already employs 700 people,...
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“Our society is choking with aesthetics. Everything today is about the way things look; but rarely do people take the time to figure what things mean,” opined Pharrell Williams at a...
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Kinvara Balfour, the editor, It-Gal and consultant of cool, has launched an online series called The Visionaries, an all-inclusive project for the Instagram generation of insightful...
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![]( "Lola James Harper creating hotel with Accor, and opens debut Paris boutique")
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We’ve seen Armani Hotels; Ferragamo golf courses; Stella McCartney dual-use skyscrapers and Roberto Cavalli nightclubs. Next step in designer living, a Rock 'N' Roll hotel by hipster...
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If there was anything Azzedine Alaïa, the revered designer who died aged 77 this weekend, enjoyed more than actually making clothes, it was a meal with his “family” of supermodels, bold...
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![]( "Simon Whitehouse leaving J.W. Anderson, as another CEO departs the LVMH empire")
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It’s all change at LVMH, where another respected CEO in the extended group is set to leave a thriving fashion house. Simon Whitehouse, the energetic CEO of J.W. Anderson will quit the...
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![]( "Hermès fetes its window dresser Leïla Menchari with Grand Palais exhibition")
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Hermès has feted the opening of a novel exhibition of the very particular art of its long-time collaborator, Leïla Menchari, legendary for her unique set skill. Menchari is France’s most...
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![]( "Sidney Toledano leaving Christian Dior, to be replaced by Pietro Beccari")
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Sidney Toledano is to resign from his position as CEO of Christian Dior and be replaced by Pietro Beccari, CEO of Fendi, in a significant change of management within LVMH. And more...