PHUNG CHRISTINE LEONARD
Since Yiqing Yin left his role as Leonard Creative Director at the end of 2015, the role remained empty until now. Following Yin’s departure, Leonard took the time to work alone in his Parisian studio. In May 2016, Leonard began priming stylist Christine Phung to take over as the new Creative Director of the House.
Christine Phung has received several accolades, including winning the Aubusson loves fashion contest last year and recipient of the Andam First Class Collection award in 2013. Continue reading
FRANCK LIKE A SORBIER
Sorbus aucuparia, more commonly called rowan and mountain-ash (although the latter name may be used for several other distantly related trees), is a species of deciduous tree or shrub in the rose family.
It is a highly variable species, and botanists have used different definitions of the species to include or exclude trees native to certain areas; a recent definition includes trees native to most of Europe and parts of Asia, as well as northern Africa. So you can imagine what a name means.
Nobody knows how to take us for a long memory trip, except Franck Sorbier. Few years ago Franck Sorbier’s GIANTS re-interpreted the long travel of Gulliver. Continue reading
MODEL AT 60 YEAR OLD
If you thought that fashion and silver hair could not coexist, you were wrong. The new face for American Apparel is a beautiful 60 year old with grey hair and a royal posture.
No surgery and Photoshop touch-ups, Jacky O’Shaughnessy, an actress,was chosen as a testimonial for the brand exactly for her natural elegance (she admitted that she was spotted during a dinner) thus bringing to a global level the scouting work started by Ari Seth Cohen with his blog Advanced Style. Continue reading
HAT FOR EASTERN
The cloche hat is a fitted, bell-shaped hat that was popular during the 1920s, but was first founded in 1908 and continued to be popular until 1933. Cloche is the French word for “bell”.
Cloche hats were usually made of felt so that they conformed to the head. The hat was typically designed to be worn low on the forehead, with the wearer’s eyes only slightly below the brim. By 1928/29, it became fashionable to turn the brims on cloche hats upwards. This style remained prevalent throughout the early 1930s until the cloche hat became obsolete around 1933/34. Continue reading
ONE BILLION EURO BABY
The luxury Hermes cie has declared a net profit for one billion euro in 2015 and has slightly increased its margin by to 31.8%. Early February the leather-saddle company had already released its annual turnover, which reached 4.84 billion euros in sales, up 8.1% at constant exchange rates.
Axel Dumas, the president, said the operating margin “increased to 31.8% of sales” (against 31.5% last year) “despite a difficult global environment, whether the situation in Hong Kong, Macao or the terrorist attacks in Paris. “
Hermes has hired nearly 500 people last year, “including 400 in France, mainly in manufacturing and sales teams.” End of 2015 it employed a total of 12,244 people, including 7,461 in France. Finally we wonder why Hermès refused Arnault’s offer as they adopt a strategy similar to the LVMH cash machine.
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ABED MAHFOUZ DUBAI 2016
RICHEMONT QUITS FORNAS
Richemont’s Chief Executive, Bernard Fornas, has announced that he would be retiring from the luxury goods company at the end of March. The Frenchman, who previously led the Richemont’s giant Cartier jewelry business, has been joint head with Richard Lepeu since April 2013. Mr. Lepeu will now become the sole Chief Executive of Richemont, which also owns upmarket Swiss watchmakers IWC, Piaget and Jaeger-LeCoultre.
Mr. Fornas who was born in 1947 and who run an executive search company avenue Matignon before leading Richemont, will also leave his positions on the senior executive and management committees at Geneva-based Richemont. However he will remain a non-executive director. He will be replaced on the senior executive committee by current Cartier CEO, Cyrille Vigneron. Continue reading
LAMYA ABEDIN DUBAI 2016
J. SAUNDERS, THE SCOTTISH THISTLE
Jonathan Saunders, hailed as one of the most exciting and captivating fashion designers of the London showcase, has just been nominated the new Creative Director of Dior. To welcome him at Dior, his first capsule collection will be first presented in London and not in Paris as usual. Dior has ordered a new weapon of mass creative construction for the Dior label and makes a mockery of the Paris Fashion Federation – Shame on them!
Born in Scotland, Saunders graduated from Glasgow School of Art in 1999 with a BA in Printed Textiles, going on to graduate from Central Saint Martins in 2002 with an MA with distinction in Printed Textiles. Besides, his creative understanding of fashion has resulted in collaborations with dancers, artists and interiors companies alike. Continue reading
ROCHAS PARIS 2016
DAVID BECKHAM SAVES HIS WIFE
This is the wonderful world of fashion! The week is over and every journalist has reported on the collections and the fashion house.
Regarding Ms. Wintour, she has said nothing about the financial situation of the most famous fashion Spice Girl on the planet which is not far from bankruptcy.
Victoria who made a turnover of £34m in 2014, set up her own store in Mayfair, London two years ago. The shop cost her nearly £3m and items included Damian Hirst artwork on sale for £600,000.
The Director’s Report said: ‘The contracts held by the company relating to the David Beckham brand were transferred during the year to DB Ventures Ltd, a sister company of David Beckham Brand Holdings Ltd which is focused on exploiting the David Beckham brand.’ Continue reading
SALLE DE MODE MOSCOW 2016
FASHION CASH LOW
Jean-Paul Gaultier is going to create a collection with the supermarket chain. Apparently, the French designer will create fashion clothes for women, men and children as well as products for home, about in all 100 pieces will be available in 2016
“Each time I come to Australia, I am impressed by the relaxed confidence of the Australians. This philosophy is mine and there is a true synergy with my own approach of fashion and style ” says Jean-Paul Gaultier.
To create accessible collections has become a way of life for the French designer who launched a fashion line with the Japanese retailer “Seven & i” last month. Continue reading
SWELNUS BY ERIC TIBUSCH
NOR A RUMOUR NOR AN HUMOUR
Bouchra Jarrar has been named artistic director of women’s collections at Lanvin. She starts on Monday and is expected to unveil her first collection here this fall for the spring 2017 season.
Bouchra Jarrar succeeding Alber Elbaz at the storied fashion house and start her fashion new career.
Bouchra Jarrar (born November 14, 1970 in Cannes) is a French haute couture fashion designer of Moroccan ancestry. She was a student at the École Duperré at age 21 and graduated three years later. She has worked for lingerie brand Capucine Puerari as well as for the jewelry department of Jean Paul Gaultier.
In 1996, she started working with Nicolas Ghesquière for Balenciaga.This lasted ten years. She then worked for Scherrer for a short time, before becoming Continue reading
TOLENADO GO TO SYDNEY
“How can a collection like the one you’ve just seen be delivered to the shops tomorrow?,” said Sidney Toledano, Chief Executive after the Dior’s show.
“That would mean we’d manufactured it six months ago and put it in the fridge … When you put a collection in the shops the following day, that means that the selection from the runway has already been made — you’re taking a risk.”
This is concerning the ‘See now and buy after the show’. Mr Toledano is right because for a large company like Dior “impossible” is probably a bad word, but for luxury company miracle is possible. It is surprising that such a group like Dior that the “just in time” process does not exist. Continue reading
A JOURNEY WITH GHESQUIERE 2016
Louis Vuitton, the flagship luxury brand of LVMH, just put an end to almost one month of catwalk shows that began in New York and moved on to London and Milan before ending in Paris this week.
French luxury label Louis Vuitton show in Paris Fashion Week presented for next Winter, plenty of leather for outerwear, trousers and dresses. On a catwalk embarrassed with mirror columns, designer Nicolas Ghesquiere opened the Autumn/Winter 2016 show with a black coat adorned with golden buttons and cinched at the waist over shiny red leather trousers and military-style boots.
Ghesquiere, who has led a renaissance of the brand known for its monogrammed leather bags like Chanel 2.55, also presented T-shirt like dresses in bold geometric patterns – blue, red, white and black. Continue reading
LOUIS VUITTON PARIS 2016
SHIATZY CHEN PARIS 2016
Shiatzy Chen is a Taiwanese fashion house, founded in 1978 by Wang Chen Tsai-Hsia, who is often referred to as the Chanel of Taiwan.
They describe their style as “neo-Chinese chic”, where the aesthetics of Chinese clothing and handicraft are combined with Western styles, using design features drawn from Chinese culture such as mandarin collars and Chinese patterns.
Wang Chen Tsai-Hsia was born in 1951 in Changhua, Taiwan.
She was not formally educated in the industry, learning her trade by working at her uncle’s factory. Very talented she probably is my favorite designer for this Paris Fashion Week.
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HERMES PARIS 2016
GIVENCHY PARIS 2016
