insert_link Fashion Paris Fashion Week to Resume with In-Person Shows this month As reported by Vogue, fashion shows are returning to Paris later this month in spite of the continuing (COVID-19) pandemic. According to the preliminary schedule released by the Fédération de la Haute Couture et de la Mode last week, Paris Fashion Week will go ahead and run from September 28 through October 6 with 92 brands on the official calendar. WWD has confirmed that 71 of those brands will put on physical events, […] todaySeptember 8, 2021
insert_link Fashion All Dressed Up and Nowhere to Go? In lieu of a Red Carpet, Celebs (and their Stylists) turn to Instagram The 26th annual Critics' Choice Awards, honoring the year in film and television, took place a little over a week ago in an in-person/virtual hybrid format. And while award shows in 2021 feel a lot like dropping in on a Hollywood Zoom call, the stars who received the coveted link joined the video hangout from their couches in everything from custom couture to feathered sleepwear. In case you missed it, a […] todayMarch 15, 2021
insert_link Fashion Alaïa announces Pieter Mulier, Raf Simons’s right hand man, as their New Creative Director When Azzedine Alaïa passed away in 2017, he left huge shoes to fill. And now, the maison that still bears his name has announced his successor: Pieter Mulier. Long known as Raf Simons's right-hand man, Mulier followed Simons from house to house, with stints at Jil Sander, Dior and Calvin Klein. But just as Simons is embarking on a new journey at Prada, Mulier is carving his own path as […] todayFebruary 10, 2021
insert_link Fashion Despite the Covid-19 setback, LVMH Fashion Brands are already showing double-digit growth Fashionista reports that with stores and production sites closed and travel halted, the second quarter of 2020 was a tough time for luxury brands. The industry's two biggest, strongest conglomerates were suddenly looking at double-digit declines: LVMH saw a 38% drop in comparable sales, Kering a 43.7% drop (even Gucci did poorly). That was despite some growth in online sales as consumers shopped from home, and a rebound in China, which had largely recovered from the pandemic by then. […] todayOctober 22, 2020
insert_link Fashion Raf Simons makes his design debut at Prada for Spring 2021 It would not be an understatement to say that fashion's most anticipated runway show of the year had to be Prada's Spring 2021 outing, where Raf Simons was set to make his debut as co-creative director alongside Miuccia Prada. The announcement made in February that one of the industry's beloved designers would be joining one of its highest revered houses sent editorial hearts racing, and ever since then, insiders and fans alike have been champing at […] todaySeptember 30, 2020
insert_link Fashion Dior Stages a Full-Out Fashion Show, Without the Audience, for Cruise 2021 After a brief, coronavirus-imposed pivot to digital, the French fashion legend returns to what it knows best. Back in June, Dior CEO Pietro Beccari held a joint live-streamed press conference with artistic director Maria Grazia Chiuri to announce that the brand was moving forward with plans to present a live runway in Lecce, Italy for its Cruise 2021 collection, having postponed its original May 9 debut. "[For] Maria Grazia and I, luxury is emotions. When […] todayJuly 29, 2020
insert_link Fashion Just as they try to reopen, L.A. Protests force beleaguered luxury retail stores to shut down As thousands of demonstrators protesting the death of George Floyd by a Minnesota police officer moved westward in Los Angeles, luxury retail started to board up in fear of riots and looting. The entirety of famed luxury shopping strip Rodeo Drive was blocked to traffic by early afternoon on Saturday, as protestors were still miles to the east. The Beverly Center, a mall in West Hollywood that houses a number […] todayJune 1, 2020
insert_link Fashion Dior Virtual Beauty Shop goes 3-D so you can shop their Paris store from your Living Room Paris, as the saying goes, is always a good idea. Although perhaps not when the European city is in the midst of a lockdown owing to a global pandemic. But the beauty – and retail therapy – of the French capital is now being offered to the world virtually, thanks to one of its most fabulous exports, Dior. Dior Beauty has made its online store a virtual 3D experience of […] todayApril 9, 2020
insert_link Fashion Givenchy Appoints Renaud De Lesquen As New CEO WWD broke the news last Friday that French house Givenchy confirmed that Renaud de Lesquen, currently president and chief executive officer of Dior Americas, will be joining on April 1st as president and CEO. Renaud de Lesquen has a unique profile in the luxury industry, starting with graduating in 1991 from the prestigious École supérieure de commerce de Paris. De Lesquen brings together a second to none experience in strategic developments […] todayMarch 13, 2020
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