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JD Sports opens global flagship in Paris

Sports fashion retailer JD Sports Fashion has opened a global flagship store in the heart of Paris. Located at 118 Avenue des Champs-Élysées, the store has been designed to create an immersive shopping experience, showcasing the brand’s latest innovations in digital technology and merchandising offering the “hottest brands and latest launches”....

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FW24: Time travel, throwbacks and (faltering) debuts at Paris Fashion Week

When Nicolas Ghesquière returned to the Cour Carrée at the Louvre last night, exactly ten years to the day after he presented his first collection for Louis Vuitton, it was, as is custom for the brand, to close out a packed Paris Fashion Week schedule for Fall/Winter 2024. The designer, who will continue his reign at the helm of the French...

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Veja opens a repair shop in Paris

French sustainable trainer brand Veja has opened its first standalone sneaker “repair temple” in Paris. Known as the ‘General Store,’ the repair shop is located at 11 Rue de Marseille and offers cobbler and tailoring services to fix and extend the life of sneakers and clothing for any brand. Designed to act as a hub of sustainability, the store...

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Paris Good Fashion’s Isabelle Lefort on making Paris the capital of sustainable fashion in 2024

Initiated by the City of Paris, Paris Good Fashion initially aimed to establish Paris as the capital of a more sustainable fashion by 2024, in anticipation of the Olympic Games. On the occasion of its fifth anniversary, the association conducted a review of its first roadmap in the presence of key industry stakeholders on January 23 at the...

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Realists and dreamers compete at Haute Couture Week in Paris

The legitimacy of couture and its often ostentatious excess on show can occasionally attract scorn, especially in times when the couturier's work is far removed from many a person's reality. So much of what is shown at couture weeks nowadays, with celebrity front rows meticulously documented and shared by the millions on social media, seems to...

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'Freaks From Designers': Who’s Next opens Parisian doors to more global world of fashion

“We want to leave a memory in something really temporary,” said Frédéric Maus, the CEO of WSN, on what he hopes the lasting impact of the organisation’s events will be. Among the company's portfolio is the ever-expanding Who’s Next, a Parisian trade show that took place over the weekend, running simultaneously to the men’s and Haute Couture...

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Saint Laurent opens largest store in Paris

French luxury fashion house Saint Laurent has opened its largest flagship store on the Champs-Élysees in Paris. The new Parisian flagship showcases a new design concept by Saint Laurent creative director Anthony Vaccarello, featuring luxurious fixtures and raw elements in concrete, marble and dark wood. In a statement, the brand said that the...

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AMI celebrates holiday season with pop-up and ice rink

Luxury fashion brand AMI is celebrating the holiday season with an exclusive pop-up store and ice rink at Palais-Royal in Paris. From December 16 to 31, La Patinoire AMI (ice-rink) will be located in the historical Cour d’Honneur of Palais-Royal. It will be free of charge with visitors asked to register via the brand’s website. The design of the...

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Esmod showcases students' end-of-year collections in an exhibition in Paris

From now until 8 July, the creations of fashion design students from Esmod's Paris, Lyon and Roubaix campuses will be on show at the Appart Renoma in the french capital. While Studio Berçot has just announced that it will be closing its doors for good, the Esmod group, which recently boasted the title of top French school in the international...

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Armed robbers hit Paris Bulgari jewellery boutique

Armed robbers raided the Bulgari luxury jewellery boutique in the swanky Place Vendome in central Paris in broad daylight Saturday, making off with an estimated several million euros' worth of items, police and prosecutors said. Three people who arrived on two motorbikes entered the store in the popular tourist district at around 1:45pm local...

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McArthurGlen confirms Paris outlet opening date and first brands

The McArthurGlen Group, which owns, develops and manages designer outlets across Europe, has confirmed that its fourth destination in France will open on April 27 to the west of Paris. McArthurGlen Designer Outlet Paris-Giverny is described as a “visionary” shopping destination and will house 100 stores spanning more than 215,275 square feet....

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Claire’s opens new immersive store in Paris

Jewellery and accessories brand Claire’s has unveiled a new immersive concept store in Paris, the first designed in collaboration with the brand’s creative director in residence Nicola Formichetti, who joined the company in November 2022. The 1,200-square-foot store, located on Rue Faubourg St. Antoine in Paris, has been designed for “total...