Designing denim would not normally seem the most apt way to become the designer at one of France’s great couture houses, but it is the career path of Matthew M. Williams, who debuted at Givenchy on Sunday
One house gaining lots of traction is Schiaparelli, where couturier Daniel Roseberry unveiled his latest ready-to-wear ideas on Sunday in a photo shoot he shot himself of his favorite Paris morning walk.
Kenzo Takada, the first Japanese designer to establish himself in France, has died of Covid-19 at the age of 81, at the American Hospital in Neuilly-sur-Seine, leaving this world during Paris Fashion Week.
Paris Fashion Week loves few things more than a debut, and the biggest inauguration this season was the first French show of Gabriela Hearst, who staged her show to great applause inside the cloisters of the Beaux-Arts.
It was extraordinarily difficult for guests in Paris to see any clothes at the Ami show on the Seine on Saturday night yet, counterintuitively, the event felt like a triumph for the brand.
A purist fashion statement and a celebration of the French love of spectacle at Hermès on Saturday, in the most skillfully staged show so far on the international runway calendar.
Jonathan Anderson’s latest show, this week for the Spanish label Loewe, came in an enormous cardboard box. It surely had couriers grumbling throughout Western Europe, even as it delighted editors and fans in equal parts.
Those wanting to behold a pure statement of fashion creation should do their best to catch online the latest collection by Yohji Yamamoto, the sole runway show at Covid-conditioned Paris Fashion Week on Friday.
Without a creative director since 2017, Emilio Pucci is rethinking its creative strategy by bolstering its studio. For summer 2021, it revealed a strong collection, enriched by Tomotoka Koizumi's capsule collection.
It was a season of socially distanced presentations in Paris. With scores of events on an appointments basis. Designers presenting ideas to editors and buyers, and in the pandemic often harking back to their youth.
Now we know that the Paris Olympics are at least three years away, but we got a first inkling – a dancing acrobatic Disco vision even – of how they might look at Isabel Marant on Thursday night.
The Toronto-based department store operator announced on Thursday that it is teaming up with Canadian designer platform Inland in order to offer apparel, accessories and jewelry from emerging national and BIPOC brands.
Under the continued shadow of Covid-19, brands seek new ways to launch their collections. Acne Studios took advantage of its smaller audience and presented an experimental, fresh collection through an art installation.
Jennifer Lopez, Penelope Cruz and a gang of Vogue and Elle editors showed up in Paris on Wednesday night – even if only virtually – at the latest Balmain show in the Jardin des Plantes.
After stepping in as head of Reebok Studies last year, the Haitian-American designer is now taking over creative direction for the whole brand, as well as joining the Adidas-owned label's leadership team.
