DIOR ICI MODE

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It could seem that one of the key achievement of Dior’s revolution would be a more unified brand with men’s and women’s, Christian Dior Couture and Perfume could be fully integrated under the creative director, Maria Chiuri or others.

Although Maria Grazia Chiuri has been going through criticism, sales ar growing since she joined in 2016. She has brought an activism-tinged, millennial-friendly approach to Dior. Top-selling products are the classic Lady Dior bag, but also new cult accessories designed by Chiuri, including her logo-ribboned slingback heels and metal logo bags.

However, Maria Chiuri remains in a string of name that have taken over since the abrupt departure of John Galliano, who first made Dior a mega-brand during his time as artistic director from 1996 to 2011. And Dior has not recovered its DNA Continue reading →

TOLENADO AT BECKHAM’S

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Ralph Toledano has been named chairman of Victoria Beckham Ltd. Toledano has been appointed to closely work on the brand’s creative vision, and on the strategy for the next phase of growth.

Growth will come from further expansion, particularly in Asia. Toledano’s appointment follows the 30 million pounds investment from NEO Investment Partners in December. Beckham said Toledano brings “unrivaled industry experience to the company. Since I founded the company ten years ago, I have always looked to bring on board the best people to help me deliver my vision.”

In 2016 Toledano was re-elected president of the Federation de la Haute Couture et de la Mode. He has held the post since 2014, when he succeeded Didier Grumbach who remains honorary president. The question is  Continue reading →

VUITTON IN THE LOUVRE

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Vuitton in the Louvre make sence ! Nicolas Ghesquière attended at the Chloe show, next to Wintour ! Maybe Nicolas will leave to the Richmont group who knows ? For this collection Women were at the core of his fall display, which explored quintessentially French notions of elegance. The cropped jacket on a gray buttonless skirt suit was trimmed with spiky metal medallions and chains fine strands sprouting from its embroidered collar, or thick links decorating faux pockets.

Trouser suits and cocktail dresses were paired with graphic waist trainers, the corset-like belts made popular by Kim Kardashian, though their impact was diluted by attaching them to draped halter-neck tops that drooped lower over one breast. Continue reading →

HERMÈS PARIS 2018

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Certainly, no one expected to be attending a show outdoors with an outside temperature at 6 degrees centigrade. Even if Hermès provided us with some ultra-soft riding blankets to bundle up against the cold, but by the time the catwalk started almost 50 minutes late as usual. In the artificial fog Hermès presents its lastest collection to Duchess and Ladies.

The setting was a transparent awning surrounded by trees bathed in Hermès-orange light  a suitably dramatic backdrop for Nadège Vanhee-Cybulski’s opening sequence of sleek outfits in dark leather set off by glinting hardware.

The Hermès woman has a sporty side, too: A sheepskin aviator jacket, a quilted calfskin hoodie or a sweeping blanket coat suggested she was not afraid of hitting the great outdoors. In its great leniency, Canal-Luxe has found it not too bad. Continue reading →

RICCARDO TISCI AND BURBERRY

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Tisci will replace Christopher Bailey, graduate of Central Saint Martins in London, will direct all Burberry collections and present his first for the brand in September. When Bailey stepped down in October, he said February was to be his last collection, with an in-house team likely working on the September outing.

Tisci will be based at Burberry’s headquarters in London. A women’s wear, men’s wear, leather goods and accessories designer, Tisci spent more than a decade at Givenchy.

While Tisci’s arrival at Burberry marks a new beginning, it also signals the end of a dramatic narrative for the designer: Rumors were circulating last year that Tisci was to join Versace, but the much talked-about deal never materialized. Continue reading →

DOLCE FASHION DRONES

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Over the past few seasons, the brand  has made the court  to the always-connected generation,.

During the show, Dolce & Gabbana spent then the first half an hour trying to convince its guests to log off the WiFi. Finally, everyone did and then it all became apparent as drones flew out handbags down the catwalk.

And that was just the beginning of a collection that was packed full of fashion gimmicks. The set was made out like a church, appropriate for a Sunday in Italy, reading “Fashion Devotion” of course, fashion as religion.

So out came “Fashion Sinner” slogans on T-shirts, which had leanings more towards the fashion satire of Moschino. There were ornate mirror bags and those that looked like a theatre stage; handbag headbands; wings on the back of the bombers – standard angel garb one imagines up in heaven; and there was a giant zebra coat and hat ensemble. Really? Yes. Continue reading →

FENDI’S SLIM VIEW

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Karl Lagerfeld has again an outstanding Fendi collection. It proves that the 80s Karl Lagerfeld still has plenty of novel designer ideas hidden up his sleeves.

Though Fendi is based in Rome, Lagerfeld sketched the designs at home in Paris. He largely goes to Fendi’s headquarters in Rome for the fittings, and frequently using video conferencing with his team in the Eternal City, while he is in Paris.

The catwalk started in a setting transformed in a diamond patterned program, with silver parallelogram panels bearing a “F” in a circle logo, the same image on the walls.

Plissé sides to give volume and movement, and prevent anything looking too heavy. Oodles of swish mink coats, with the Double F logos or cut with diamond patterns; and mink sweaters reading Fendi Roma. Architectural yet somehow very easy.
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INFLUENCERS AT VUITTON’S

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Benjamin Cercio has been promoted Louis Vuitton as director of press, influencers and entertainment relations. He reports to Jenny Galimberti, Vuitton’s senior vice president of communications.

A 12-year veteran of the French luxury brand, Cercio was previously international celebrity relations director. He takes up responsibilities previously handled by Edouard Schneider, who was press and public relations director.

What happens at Louis Vuitton was predicted by Canal-Luxe Group CEO a few years ago. Continue reading →

BAILEY FINAL REVERENCE

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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.

YOLANDA ZOBEL AND COURRÈGES

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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 →

FOSUM AND LANVIN JUST MARRIED

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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 →

CHANEL AND THE PARIS OPERA

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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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