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Ryo Matsumura of Japan's Rakuten: 'We would like to represent French designers who are not yet known'

In past seasons of Rakuten Fashion Week Tokyo, the event’s headline sponsor, tech firm and e-commerce retailer Rakuten, has made it known of its intentions to secure stronger ties with the influential fashion weeks of the West. During Tokyo’s FW24 fashion week, for example, Paris Fashion Week’s official tradeshow partner, Tranoï, announced it...

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Burak Cakmak, Saudi Fashion Commission: 'Saudi market opens up to contemporary men’s fashion'

During Paris Fashion Week June, the Saudi 100 Brands event, a fashion show at Paris' Palais de Tokyo and a showroom at the Mona Bismarck hotel, was held. The programme supports fashion companies, brands and designers in their pursuit of expansion, with those selected set to benefit from market-related initiatives that aim to help in brand...

Fashion |In Pictures

Paris Fashion Week Menswear SS25: The luxury streetwear trend, from Virgil Abloh to the Paris Olympics

From selling deadstock Ralph Lauren shirts with a ‘Pyrex Vision’ label in 2012, to designing the Louis Vuitton menswear collections from 2018 to 2021, Virgil Abloh’s impact on luxury streetwear fashion cannot be overstated. He was the master of creating a style that worked year-round and was gender fluid. Now, almost three years after his...

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Football, circus and riots: The highlights of Paris Men's Fashion Week

As the men's European Football Championship in Germany and the upcoming Olympic Games in Paris bring together a shared sporting spirit throughout the region, fashion houses exhibited their latest menswear collections in Paris. Some shows stuck to this sporty approach, while others revelled in the colourful circus of fashion or, otherwise,...

Fashion |In Pictures

Bianca Saunders unveils first full footwear line at SS25 Paris show

On the back of winning this year’s 2024 BFC/GQ Designer Fashion Fund, British-Jamaican designer Bianca Saunders has unveiled her first full line of footwear as part of her latest SS25 collection. Alongside garments that aimed to evoke the feeling of “exploration and rediscovery”, Saunders took to the runway of Paris Fashion Week Men’s to exhibit...

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Kanye West and Bianca Censori bring a wind of madness to the Prototypes fashion show

The Prototypes show, held at the Consulat as part of Paris Fashion Week Men's, will likely remain the most spectacular event of this season: underground, avant-garde and fast-paced. Yet, the attraction that everyone will be talking about is undoubtedly the apparent surprise arrival of Kanye West and his wife, Bianca Censori. Such an event may...

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Rick Owens enlists Paris in a parade of all excesses

Paris - Rick Owens outdid himself on Thursday, mesmerizing hundreds of spectators with a monumental outdoor show featuring an army of eerie, proud silhouettes clad in his signature white monochrome. Smoke cleared. A first battalion of hooded jumpsuits, space-age shoulders, descended the monumental stone steps of the Palais de Tokyo esplanade....

Fashion |In Pictures

Paris Fashion Week: From Kenzo to Wales Bonner and LGN, men's fashion goes from laughter to tears

Paris - Just two days in and Paris Fashion Week Men’s saw the audience swing from laughter to tears on Wednesday, from the neon brights of Kenzo, to the clowns of Walter Van Beirendonck, the poise of Wales Bonner and the sensual slickness of Louis Gabriel Nouchi. Kenzo: Tokyo ease meets Parisian gold On Wednesday evening, Kenzo, under the LVMH...

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The impact of the Olympics on Paris Fashion Week: Professionals tell their stories

To leave Paris in the hands of the Olympic Games, the Fédération de la Mode et de la Haute Couture (FMCM) brought forward the dates of the Men's Fashion Week from 18 to 23 June 2024. Despite this precaution, the fashion event - which is organised around the FHCM's official calendar and an off-site diary - is set to be impacted by the global...

Fashion |In Pictures

Louis Vuitton looks to the Wild West for AW24 show

Martin Scorcese's film "Killers of the Flower Moon" seemed to have been the inspiration behind Louis Vuitton's autumn-winter 2024/2025 show, which closed the first day of Paris Fashion Week for the season. The event took a "calmer" approach than the previous shows hosted by Pharrell Williams (it's not every day you privatise the Pont Neuf by...

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The zany Belgian designer keeping fashion fun

Always guaranteed to bring a touch of craziness and colour to Paris Fashion Week, Belgian designer Walter Van Beirendonck could not help having a dig Wednesday at the megabrands dominating the industry. Even by the veteran designer's zany standards, his latest menswear show was a wildly imaginative collection, featuring jackets with tentacles,...

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Balmain and Valentino returning to Paris Men’s Fashion Week

The Fédération de la Haute Couture et de la Mode, the governing body for the French fashion industry, has released the provisional schedule for the upcoming Paris Men’s Fashion Week, running from January 16 to 21. There are 74 houses on the official schedule that will unveil their autumn/winter 2024 collection through 42 shows and 32...