DRIES VAN NOTEN STEPPING DOWN

A search for a successor to Dries Van Noten has quietly begun in recent months, marking the end of an era.

The acclaimed Belgian designer is stepping down in June after nearly four decades in fashion. During Paris Fashion Week, his last show will be his men’s show for the spring 2025 season.

A new designer will be announced in due time, Van Noten said in a statement to us “I have been preparing for this moment for a while, and I feel it’s time to leave room for a new generation of talents to bring their vision to the brand.”

Synonymous with ravishing colors, striking prints and dignified dressing tinged with exotic details, Van Noten forged a succession roadmap when he sold a majority stake in his Antwerp-based house to Puig in 2018. We wish him a happy retirement

GUCCI AND ANCORA

Sabato De Sarno, the creative director of Gucci Ancora, is planning a project called Design Ancora, which will be revealed during Milan Design Week. In conjunction with the city’s international furniture and design trade show Salone del Mobile, the event will take place at Gucci’s flagship store at Via Montenapoleone. Continue reading

BEST DRESS OSCAR VUITTON

Emma Stone, best actress for her work in “Poor Things, wore a gown by Louis Vuitton.America Ferrera, nominated as Best Supporting Actress for her work in “Barbie,” wore Versace.

Sandra Hüller in Schiaparelli for Anatomy of a Fall. And Jamie Lee Curtis in Dolce & Gabbana. Colman Domingo in Louis Vuitton Tuxedo.

And Billie Eilish’s ugliest outfit in Chanel no one is perfect.

Kirsten Dunst in Gucci, Lupita Nyong’o in Amrani Prive, and Greta Lee in Loewe, Margot Robbie in Versace.
European stylists are really celebrating at the Oscars.

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SAICAI PARIS 2024

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HERMÈS THE RAIN PASSAGER

The face of the sky is gray, the ground shimmers in the rain, a dark rain that falls from the ceiling as if to illuminate fashion. Unquestionably the cuts, which appear, are perfectly executed, and even if the leather is not worn in the rain, we have a collection as a whole that flirts with luxury. Continue reading

YSL DIFFRACTION OF FASHION

The “Transparences” exhibition currently taking place at the Yves Saint Laurent Museum in Paris is recording record attendance, a funny coincidence. On Tuesday evening, Anthony Vaccarello, constructed almost his entire fall collection with flimsy silk hosiery fabrics, which he said were a nightmare to produce.

Saint Laurent via a sensual nude outfit, while exalting the master’s legacy of transgression, liberation and empowerment of women. The models’ heads were covered in bonnets and their wrists covered with large transparent bracelets, as well as jewelry on their backs.

Vaccarello said he had the idea for this pure extravagance before the YSL museum revealed the theme of its spring exhibition, sure!. But I think it’s good that there is this link with the foundation also to make it clear that here it is also a house of transparency. Really very, very transparent in fact.
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GIORGIO ARMANI BLACK AND FLOWERS

‘Black is an amazing color. Women look more beautiful in black than in any other shade,’ said Giorgio Armani.

The inky shade appeared on a boxy jacket with an oversize pocket and a velvet mandarin collar; a floor-length coat dotted with blue petals; and a tailored suit covered in silvery crystals.

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KIM SHUI NY 2024

When Kim Shui graduated from Duke University with a degree in economics in 2011, she didn’t intend to become a fashion designer, and that sounds like a former plumber wanting to become a digestive tract surgeon. This is the meeting of the Bling dynasty and US-trash on Roosevelt Avenue, that of sex workers. Two muses, dressed in gold nightgowns, appeared and came to the center of the stage to show off fashion so Putinist.

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DONNA KARAN FRAGRANCE

The brand just relaunched its fashion business, and now it is launching a new fragrance collection. A quartet of eau de parfums dubbed the Cashmere Collection will be available at Bloomingdale’s, Nordstrom, Macy’s and Dillard’s this month. Each scent is priced at $150.

It coincides with the relaunch of Donna Karan New York earlier this week, and is the first pillar introduced by licensee Inter Parfums Inc. The brand was previously under the Estée Lauder Cos.

Despite playing on the success of Cashmere Mist, one of the brand’s bestsellers, Inter Parfums didn’t want to debut the new collection as a flanker.

It was Madar’s goal to create a sense of warmth and layering when developing the scents.

YOU AND ME LVMH

Apostate, sectarian, iconoclast, and junk seller with a salary below the poverty line, come to LVMH. The search for young talents at LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton is expanding.

The world’s largest luxury group launched the third edition of its “You and ME” recruitment roadshow in Paris on Wednesday, attracting a record 3,000 participants to the opening day, but no one is saying how many candidates were recruited.

LVMH no longer really attracts, and to reach more potential candidates, LVMH publicized its initiative in the Paris metro and surrounded itself with more than a dozen influencers, to recruit modern slaves.

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MAISON MARGIELA 2024

K-WAY 2024

Fashion institutions have once again let one of the French flagships go abroad, because now the brand is owned by BasicNet S.p.A., an Italian company specializing in the sports and leisure clothing sector. This has just made a big splash with its collection in Milan which was truly an innovative collection and in the taste of all people today.

BALMAIN THE FASHION COLLECTOR

Balmain’s creative director, Oliver Rousteing, embarked on a daring journey, collecting fragments from various designers along the way. Show spectacle echoes Jeremy Scott’s Moschino, Daniel Roseberry’s Schiaparelli, and Colm Dillane’s Louis Vuitton (KidSuper). Although it’s a true fashion potluck, we have to wonder: did Rousteing lose his GPS in the world of couture?

It is in the 19th arrondissement of Paris that Olivier Rousteing has chosen to unveil his new men’s collection. One of the bimbos on the bus seeing the district asks her friend if she should bring her passport. Continue reading

DIOR DANCES WITH WOLVES

Kim Jones got a jumpstart fir his first full line of haute couture for men at Dior during the ready to wear. Inspired by Russian dancer Rudolf Nureyev, who collected kaftans, kimonos and precious shawls that he enjoyed wearing in private.

To the dramatic strains of the “Dance of the Knights” from Sergei Prokofiev’s “Romeo and Juliet,” from man to man.

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