Just when you thought that you had seen it all on the catwalks, here comes a new trend, and in this case a rather catwalk challenging one for models… fetishes & bondage!
Now, we all know that music has a huge impact on fashion and ‘vice’ versa. As arts, they both feed from each other. Have you seen the latest video of Rihanna: ‘S&M’ yet? Seen Gaga’s latest shoes?
Well fashion seems to have also taken its fetish toys out of the secret drawer and it is now proudly and unapologetically preaching its love affair with fetishes.
From the very upper crust of fashion: Louis Vuitton, Herve Leger, and so on… to the trendy “cool kids” from London, to Continue reading
The Richemont Group has just announced the departure of Stanislas de Quercize for personal reasons. He will be replaced by Cyrille Vigneron on 1st January 2016.
Dubai fashion week was surely one the best organised fashion week in the world. To my mind the Paris Fashion Week is dead. The reasons are: clients are no more in Paris, they are living in London, Dubai, Miami, New York and Shanghai.
Born in 1956, Fashion designer Abed Mahfouz was raised in the arms of a modest family in Lebanon. Being surrounded with all what is takes to become a designer – fabrics, threads, scissors and foremost family members that work in tailoring, Mahfouz decided to enter the enticing world of fashion.
Here we are again! Last week, Raf Simons announced that he was leaving the Dior fashion house. Today, it is Alber Elbaz’s turn who leaves the house of Lanvin.
In November 2015 will be held the second edition of “MES CREATEURS JOAILLIERS”. Despite the uncertainty economic recovery climate and recent events in Paris, the latest session was sucessful and even the Prince of Luxury, Bernard Arnault, came and visited the exhibition. The show attracted many purchasing decision-makers, with independent retail, department store and concept store buyers.
Companies do not stop looking for talents or “high potentials” as they call them. They have even developped a new fonction to identify the talents in the companies and in schools. However the question is what do we consider as talent today? What does having a talent entail? Maybe the difference between having it or not is just about non-existent. The two things coincide and must coexist.
This week-end, the “Vintage des Collectionneurs d’Hermès” will be held at the Hotel du Louvre. The “Hermès collectors” have now their own trade show. which will feature a multitude of iconic pieces from the luxury house.
After New York, London, Milan, Paris and now Dubai, the Emirates have finally been officially added to the international fashion week calendar. The Arab Fashion Week will run from October 31 to November 2.
China’s slowdown hit sales at Britain’s luxury fashion group Burberry, the company revealed on Thursday, sending its share price plunging more than 12 percent..
First iconic outfit, she launched the trend of capri pants, of colored tights, of black catsuits and ballerina flats. In 1961, in Breakfast at Tiffany’s, she sported the garment she is best remembered for. The little black dress designed by Hubert de Givenchy. This last look is the one we all remember the most. The one that best represents Audrey, the icon. Audrey, the style icon. Audrey, the Hollywood star.
It is routines for Karl Lagerfeld! A Visual Journey explores the wide-ranging motifs, approaches and media that define Karl Lagerfeld’s astute and intensely personal interpretation of photography, from the 16th October 2015 at the Pinacotheque of Paris. Your choupette is not required.
UK fashion designer Stella McCartney sued American footwear and accessories company Steve Madden for copying her Falabella bag. McCartney filed a complaint with the Southern district of New York against Steve Madden. McCartney said that Steve Madden has copied one of her most “well-known and enormously popular” handbag styles. McCartney’s lawyers want Madden to discontinue its knock-off “BTotally” handbag and “an accounting of Defendant’s profits.”
There were rumors on potential successors of Alexander Wang who presented his last show for Balenciaga on October 2. Seven hours before the Nicolas Ghesquière show, the name of Demma Gvasalia was revealed as successor of Alexander. His name may be strictly unknown by the public, but not by influencers of webzines.
Nicolas Ghesquière opened his show on a serie of urban biker-chic, with a zest mixture of Gothic, accented with pink to illustrate barbies he met in Japan that will be called more easily: Manga look Barbie rockabilly (platform shoes, lace skirts, asymmetrical hem and mesh).
Has Karl Lagerfeld been watching too much ‘Pan Am’ ? As flights of fantasy go, it didn’t come more kitsch – or gimmicky – than boarding Chanel’s jumbo jet, he created for his Spring/Summer couture collection in Paris cavernous Grand Palais.
In March 1999, Fátima Lopes became the first Portuguese Fashion Designer to present in “Paris Fashion Week” alongside with the most talented and recognized international fashion designers. Since then, Fátima Lopes collections are presented in Paris twice a year. 
For the past few seasons, designer Sarah Burton has been giving fashion goers a womenswear proposition that favored a harder, more protective approach. Women who are not easily wooed or in need of rescue. The collection that looked like an antique fairytale picture book.