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PFW FW25 Street style trends: Attendees played with proportions

Paris Fashion Week FW25 ended Tuesday March 11, bringing to a close a month-long display, not just of next season’s hottest runway fashions, but also the best of the best of current street style. Store buyers, editors, content creators and other industry professionals showed up in a variety of looks, from head-to-toe designer to unique personal...

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What was (really) new at Paris Fashion Week?

The sun shone brightly over Paris as fashion week for women's autumn/winter 2025 collections commenced. In this light-filled setting, the luxury industry presented its latest offerings, an attempt to stimulate consumer spending, which faced significant challenges in 2024 and, according to consulting firm McKinsey, remains on shaky ground, with...

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Harrods buying director says PFW AW25 was a “study in contrasts”

Paris Fashion Week (PFW) autumn/winter 2025 collections were a “study in contrasts,” according to Simon Longland, buying director – fashion at Harrods, following London Fashion Week offering “refined impact” and Milan Fashion Week leaning “towards caution rather than bold reinvention”. “While some houses navigated creative transitions, others...

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Chanel plays with proportions as Paris Fashion Week wraps up

Chanel presented its Fall-Winter collection on the last day of Paris Women's Fashion Week on Tuesday, playing with proportions and layering in a show designed without incoming artistic director Matthieu Blazy. Staged in the Grand Palais exhibition hall in central Paris, the catwalk presentation featured a monumental black ribbon that spiralled...

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Stars hop aboard for train-inspired Louis Vuitton show

Louis Vuitton invited a star-studded audience to its Fall-Winter 2025 show near the Gare du Nord train station on Monday in Paris, unveiling a collection packed full of its version of travel essentials. LV-branded luggage and bags, some in the form of musical instruments, thick-soled trainers for walking, hats, capes and trench coats to protect...

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Trends at Paris Women's Fashion Week

Lots of fur and leather, ever-expanding shoulder pads and shoes, splashes of yellow: AFP looks at some of the trends from Paris Women's Fashion Week, which wraps up on Tuesday. Fur Back on the runways last year and in the streets for several months now, fur (mostly fake) was absolutely everywhere in the Fall/Winter 2025 collections, whether as...

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Highlights from Paris Women's Fashion Week

Ahead of the end of Paris Women's Fashion Week on Tuesday, AFP picks highlights from some of the smaller designer shows and their Fall/Winter collections: Zomer flips the script For their fourth collection --the third presented in Paris --the creative duo behind Paris-based Zomer delivered a show in rewind mode at the Palais de Tokyo art space....

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Changing of the guard at Paris Fashion Week

Paris - The young labels Weinsanto, CFCL and Vaquera open Paris Women's Fashion Week on Monday, kicking off a new edition that is still marked by the game of musical chairs between artistic directors. This first day dedicated to the new guard will begin with the traditional parade of graduates of the French Fashion Institute, considered the most...

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US designer Willy Chavarría debuts in Paris with a militant anti-Trump fashion show

Paris - American designer Willy Chavarria made his Paris debut on Friday with a colourful and politically charged show, incorporating an excerpt from a pro-LGBTQ+ speech by a bishop that angered President Donald Trump, as well as clips from the film "Emilia Pérez", nominated for 13 Oscars. Of Mexican and Irish descent, Chavarria was named...

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Jacquemus returns to Paris Fashion Week

2025 will be the year of Jacquemus' big return to Paris, with the French brand set to show during the autumn/winter 2025 men's fashion week. After a few months of hiatus, the Paris Fashion Week season will resume next January. From January 21 to 26, 2025, the fashion capital will host the AW25 men's fashion week, during which many surprises are...

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SS25 on social media: Is less really more?

Amidst the economic turbulence of the luxury sector, it was not the seemingly endless creative director changes or Alessandro Michele’s Valentino debut that drove SS25. Instead, brands and their marketing departments were faced with the challenge of either becoming creative with fewer resources or questioning established rules. Alongside these...

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SS25 Street Style: Teddy bears, leopards and suede in Paris

It will be some time before the looks from the recently concluded Paris Fashion Week for SS25 hit the streets. However, that's no reason to immediately avert your gaze from the French capital after the end of fashion month. While the runways showcased summery dreams of the future, show guests offered autumnal brilliance and plenty of inspiration...