The Dutch fashion designer duo has unveiled a new addition to its “Bonbon” fragrance line, with a “haute couture” inspired reinterpretation of the Viktor & Rolf scent. The Eau de Parfum is due out in August 2016.
Two years after launching its gourmand fragrance, “Bonbon,” Dutch designers Viktor & Rolf have reinterpreted the scent — as well as its bottle — in a haute couture version.
Between elegance and glamour, “Bonbon Couture” is directly inspired by the label’s haute couture creations, which generally bear the brand’s iconic bow — a Viktor & Rolf signature. It’s therefore no surprise to see the scent revisit the bow with new proportions. Continue reading
Dior has confirmed, what we announced a few weeks ago, the appointment of Maria Grazia Chiuri as the new creative director for Dior.
Each dress arouses an emotion that runs through my mind and my body. At each passage of each dress, I have a tremor in my dorsal spine that puts me in a trance.
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?
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.
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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.
