Guo Pei has chosen the Residence of Catherine Medicis for the presentation of her second fashion collection in Paris. What an inheritage! Will Guo Pei become the new brand of the Kering Group?
Tonight, la Bourse du Commerce, the future Pinault foundation, has served as a showcase for the fans of the Chinese and her thousand couture extravagances.
We attended to a France tour of those 80 last years. From “La Garçonne” of the 1930’s, “La Goulu” of the Moulin Rouge ranging to dresses adopting Christian Dior’s style, Guo Pei shows us that she has well understood the code of the French couture. Every Guo Pei’s wink shows us that she is able to tickle the most famous French designers at least those who are still remaining. Continue reading
Luxury goods group Kering was ordered on Wednesday to pay $13 million to the fashion designer Hedi Slimane.
In 1995, Bernadette Chirac wished to give Princess Diana a unique handbag on the occasion of her visit to Paris. When France’s first lady contacted Dior in her search for such a bag, the House offered her a model unofficially named Chouchou at the time. It was officially rechristened Princesse in the short term.
This the best of Paris Men Fashion Week 2016. The Chinese fashion designer Sean Suen is the most promising men fashion designer in the world in 2016.
The set for the Spring Summer 2017 Prada show designed by AMO is conceived as a stratification of architectures. The remnants of the previous show are left on the periphery of the room as foundation and visible background for the new scenography, whereas the center is freed to host the new set.
Maria Chiuri will be the new creative director of Dior, and signed on Chiuri suggests the house is ready for another shift in fashion direction, given Simons’ predilection for minimalism and futurism, which was an about-face from the retro-tinged glamour Galliano plied over a storied 15-year tenure. It also signals that Chiuri is finally ready to strike out on her own, having spent almost the entirety of her fashion career at Piccioli’s side.
On Wednesday afternoon, that’s precisely what Hedi Slimane did. The former Saint Laurent creative director, who stepped down in April, filed a complaint in the commercial court in Paris against the French fashion house’s parent company, Kering, asking that the the clause be added back.
The French fashion house was started in 1945 by designer Pierre Balmain and has passed through several hands and periods of financial difficulty over the years.
Established in 1856 by Thomas Burberry, originally focusing on the development of outdoors attire, the fashion house has moved on to the high fashion market developing pattern-based scarves, trench coats, and other fashion accessories. The first shop opened up in the Haymarket, London, in 1891.
Next September, LVMH, the Luxury French trunk-maker, launches its fragrance collection. The label’s last perfume dates back to 1946. You can imagine how the new fragrance is eagerly expected.
Burberry announced on Friday that Chief Operating Officer John Smith has decided to leave the company to pursue new interests. Smith will part ways with the company and step down from the Board by the summer of 2017.
The man, who did not like women, or the Calvinist of Fashion has just been nominated at Calvin Klein as Artistic Director. The press release does not mention the amount of the transaction.
Take a look around you. Everything changes, but nothing changes ! We can’t be afraid of change. You may feel very secure in your environment, but if you never venture out of it, you will never know that there is such a thing as an ocean, a sea. 
Women’s fashion of the 1950s reflected a complicated mix of conservatism and glamor. Women who had lived through the privations of the Great Depression and World War II were now able to afford new styles and embraced them all, from the elegance of grand, sweeping skirts to shorts and trousers.
The designers Arnaud Maillard and Alvaro Castejon announced Wednesday night the end of their collaboration with the brand Loris Azzaro.
