Matty Bovan, a former Fashion East alumni and championed by industry heavyweight Katie Grand, has some serious powers of persuasion and this was a stunning collection. Continue reading
Category Archives: BREAKING MODE
GARETH PUGH LONDON 2018
BAILEY FINAL REVERENCE
Goodbye Burberry – On Saturday night guests entered the west London venue to the chants and screeches of fur protesters who came out in even larger numbers than last season and entered a vast and largely vacant brick venue where the designer’s guests and friends were gathering to watch his last show for the brand.
The collection was meant to be a support to the LGBT community.
“I’m proud and sad ” said Sienna Miller, who starred in Burberry’s 2016 Christmas campaign, a short film that also featured Dominic West. “All the Burberry girls had to be here tonight.” They came out in force: Naomi Campbell, Kate Moss, Keira Knightley and Naomi Watts joined Michelle Dockery, Naomie Harris, Lily James and Daphne Guinness.
Chelsea Clinton, who is best friends with Bailey’s husband Simon Woods, sat in the friends and family section. “It was Simon who brought Christopher into our lives and we’re so thankful for that. There was nowhere else we wanted to be tonight” said Clinton, who was accompanied her husband Marc Mezvinsky.
ALL COMES FROM NOTHING NY 2018
YOLANDA ZOBEL AND COURRÈGES
Courrèges on Wednesday named Yolanda Zobel artistic director of the house, effective Feb. 26. The daughter of a German jewelry designer with a résumé that includes Armani, Acne Studios, Jil Sander, and Chloé has been named the artistic director of Courrèges.
The announcement came some seven months after the French fashion label parted ways with design duo Sébastien Meyer and Arnaud Vaillant, who were with Courrèges for two years. They were the first official designers at the helm of the brand since Space Age designer André Courrèges and his wife and creative partner Coqueline sold the company in 2011.
“I am deeply thrilled, moved, and inspired to be given the opportunity to create a new Courrèges!” said Zobel in a release. Continue reading
DENNIS BASSO NEW YORK 2018
FOSUM AND LANVIN JUST MARRIED
Chinese conglomerate Fosun International has beat Qatari’s rival Mayhoola Group to win control over the French fashion house Lanvin. The sale agreement leaves Taiwanese media magnate Shaw-Lan Wang, who previously held 75% stake, on board as a minority shareholder with 20%. Swiss businessman Ralph Bartel is apparently holding 25% share in the house’s capital.
Lanvin which was facing a liquidity crises was under pressure to find an investor by the end of the month. Fosun has pledged to bring 100 million euros to the table, although they cautioned that this would only provide temporary relief, given Lanvin’s deepening losses.
The oldest French fashion house, still in activity, has seen its sales erode since a peak of 235 million euros in 2012. In 2016 revenues fell 23 percent to 162 million euros, with a net loss of 18.3 million euros, marking its first red ink in nearly a decade. Continue reading
TAORAY WANG 2018 NEW YORK
CHANEL AND THE PARIS OPERA
This is an exclusive breaking news on canal-luxe.org. The brand Chanel and Aurélie Dupont, the french choregrapher, works on an exclusive collection. After photographies, designs and the many other activities, Karl Lagerfeld starts working on a new discipline which is “the ballet”. At eighty year old, the Kayser and just before leaving Chanel, explores a new sector
Aurelie Dupont loves Chanel, and said on Instagram thank you very much for the purse Chanel offered her after the Grand Palais Show. Hopefully, this new dance for the Opera will be not the “Dances with the Wolves”.
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JOSEPH ABBOUD NEW YORK 2018
BACELONA FASHION WEEK
On 30-31 January was held the 21st edition of the Barcelona fashion week which was visited by more than 32,000 people, including buyers, media representatives and a wider public, representing an increase of 5.7% compared with the previous Summer edition. Continue reading
AF VANDEVORST PARIS 2008
IS VUITTON STONE?
Hemma stone has signed as brand ambassador last October. She posed for photographer Craig McDean for the French luxury brand’s Spirit of Travel series. The “La La Land” actress, who has started wearing Vuitton clothes on the red carpet, including the one-shouldered black dress she wore at the Golden Globes.
McDean succeeds Patrick Demarchelier, who inspired the Spirit of Travel campaigns in recent years.
For the main fashion campaign, artistic director Nicolas Ghesquière has typically hired three photographers:Bruce Weber, Annie Leibovitz and Juergen Teller. However Vuitton stopped working with Weber, pending a legal probe into allegations of sexual misconduct, who he has denied. Continue reading
BUCHERER ACQUIRES TOURNEAU
Tourneau is the largest luxury watch retailer in the U.S. Founded in 1900, the company is based in New York. It operates 28 stores across 10 states, as well as a web site.
European fine watch and jewelry retailer Bucherer has acquired Tourneau LLC from an investor group led by Green Equity Investors IV, an affiliate of private equity firm Leonard Green & Partners LP. The acquisition will allow the Bucherer Group to gain a foothold in the U.S. market.
Jörg G. Bucherer, owner and president of Bucherer, said, “I am very delighted to bring my family’s brand to the United States. This strengthens the leadership of our company and brings the Bucherer name to one of the most important markets in the world. Continue reading
VIKTOR AND ROLF COUTURE PARIS 2018
KARL 30 YEARS AT CHANEL’S
“Karl Lagerfeld is almost as synonymous with Chanel as Coco Chanel herself today, but there was a time when the actual legendary designer was nervously working on his first Chanel collection, Couture for fall 1983. This being the notoriously work-centric Lagerfeld, he was toiling simultaneously for Chloé and Fendi and a “myriad of other clients.”
Not much has changed on that front as the infamously productive designer still heads up multiple houses, including Fendi and his namesake line, but when he first joined Chanel, only part time initially, he wasn’t welcomed with particularly open arms.
Lagerfeld made it through any tensions and overcame his frustrations with the slow production pace of couture and yanked Chanel into the Eighties with his first designs pulling inspiration from the Twenties and Thirties, while decidedly ignoring Chanel’s “comeback” era of the Fifties. But this was a risk, as was Lagerfeld’s decision to move away from the pastels and boxy suits the house had become more-or-less known for. Continue reading
MOST EXPENSIVE BULL GARY
Bulgari has announced the sale of the jewelery-fragrance “Opera Prima”, the most expensive perfume in the history of high perfumery like the publicity of Jean Patou for Joy fragance in 1950. The precious bottle, decorated with diamonds, was bought by a private customer, who paid more than 200 000 euros.
Launched in 2014, on the occasion of the 130th anniversary of the Bulgari House, which wanted to pay tribute to its origins and to the Italian know-how. The perfume “Opera Prima” created the buzz when it was revealed. The result of the encounter between the art of jewelery and the art of perfumery, the fragrance, which had been exhibited for a time at Galeries Lafayette Haussmann, was already estimated at an exceptional price of 200,000 euros and will probably be sold in the new concept store “La Samaritaine” of LVMH, new Hotel Cheval blanc in Paris.
Created by the master perfumer, Daniela Andrier, the juice of “Opera Prima” pays homage to the Mediterranean scents, with hints of lemon, orange blossom, musks and, of course, floral fragrances. However, the luxurious and unique character of the perfume comes primarily from its bottle, made in collaboration with the famous glass factory Venini. The bottle is inspired by Roman amphorae.
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GALIA LAHAV 2018 PARIS
ON AURA TOUT VU BEST SHOW 2018
This is at this time with dior the best show Paris Fashion Week 2018. Breaks introduced by the Haute Couture over the years to give their own interpretation codes. Diverting fashion and glamor. The designers Livia Stoianova and Yassen Samouilov stand out for several years for their extravagant and original creations, far from conventional classic haute couture fashion.
The stars are crazy for their creations. The success of designers is immediate and unparalleled. Always on hand with their own unique and singular way of creativity.
Today, brand, presents each season during the Haute Couture Paris Fashion Week but is also invested in other areas such as ready-to-wear, accessories, design objects, decor, makeup, perfumes as well as costumes and scenography for ballet performances and music. At this time the best show in paris 2018. Continue reading
CELINE AND EASY SLIMANE
One of fashion’s preeminent image-makers and trendsetters, Hedi Slimane is to lead Céline into men’s wear, couture and fragrance as its new artistic, he is to join the LVMH brand on Feb. 1 and unveil his first fashion proposition for men and women next September during Paris Fashion Week.
It marks a major homecoming for Slimane, who cemented his reputation and influenced men’s tailoring for more than a decade as the designer of Dior Homme between 2000 and 2007. He went on to reinvent and ignite the Kering-owned house of Yves Saint Laurent, which he rechristened Saint Laurent, betweenr
2012 and 2016 all the while maintaining a close rapport with the Arnault family, which controls LVMH and Dior
In a curious twist of fate, Slimane will be reunited with Sidney Toledano, the legendary chief executive officer of Dior, who recruited the designer to propel the storied couture house into men’s fashion. Continue reading
MARGIELA PARIS 2018
The designer John Galliano added his dose of cinematic fantasy plastic overlayers and matching aviators figured among the styling tricks to the Maison Margiela men’s wardrobe. Introducing Artisanal pieces to the line, he put his own stamp on the relaxed suit, reinterpreted in a bias cut.
Skeletal structure in fur on an oversized yellow bomber, giving a harness effect. Shadows crept across a flocked navy bomber, while an orange rubber cardigan in an Aran knit motif that quivered down the runway was pure showpiece.
The collection also had its fair share of commercial pieces, like the sharply cut plain beige suit worn with patent leather cowboy boots, which was supercool, and a slim red nylon sports jacket tucked into pants like a shirt. Continue reading
