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Dior, Chanel turn to arthouse directors for online fashion week
With the pandemic forcing Paris Fashion week online, haute couture designers have turned to celebrated arthouse filmmakers to give a little spectacle to their presentations.
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Chanel couture: All in the family
Chanel presented its latest haute couture collection on Tuesday before barely a half-dozen guests, presenting a collection where one could imagine Coco Chanel wearing every look.
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Valentino couture: AI from a Roman Palazzo
Paris fashion weeks shows often don’t only take place in Paris anymore. Due to the pandemic, entire seasons now take place online, and many “phygital” shows actually take place in other countries, or even continents.
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More carats and sparkle: How LVMH plans to change Tiffany
French luxury goods group LVMH plans to overhaul Tiffany & Co's vast merchandise lineup to focus more on gold and precious gems while going more upmarket with its silver bangles.
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Thriving Louis Vuitton offsets drop in sales at luxury group LVMH
French luxury goods group LVMH reported a 3% drop in comparable sales for the fourth quarter, as a boom in revenues at its big fashion brands like Louis Vuitton offset a weak performance at its duty free shops.
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Skechers and London muralist James Goldcrown partner for heart-covered collection
The Skechers x JGoldcrown global collaboration sees the artist's celebrated multi-colored 'Love Wall' heart designs converted to prints, featured on a range of lifestyle products for women and girls.
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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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LVMH's Hublot brand expects rebound in 2021 after difficult start
LVMH's Hublot watch brand expects to see sales improve this year after a difficult 2020 and a challenging start to the new year, its chief executive said on Monday.
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Christian Dior: Tarot card couture
Christian Dior went on a fresh couture voyage this Monday, a virtual trip to an imaginary chateau, all the better to unveil Maria Grazia Chiuri’s latest vision for the house inspired this season by tarot cards.
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Boohoo buys Debenhams for £55m, marks big move into beauty, home
Boohoo on Monday confirmed that it has bought the Debenhams brand for £55m. It will use it to move into beauty and homewares, extend its own brand offering, operate a giant online marketplace and grow internationally.
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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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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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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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Dior Men: Dandy militarism before a private audience
No live runway show, but some phygital fun on Friday in Paris menswear fashion season from Kim Jones at Dior Men, who melded the tropical moodiness of artist Peter Doig with the pop-militarist mode of his imagination.
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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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