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New talents and expected returns: Paris Fashion Week unveils its SS25 calendar

The Fédération de la Haute Couture et de la Mode (FHCM) has officially unveiled the provisional calendar for the upcoming Paris Fashion Week Women's Spring/Summer 2025 season. The event, scheduled from September 23 to October 1, 2024, promises a vibrant showcase of creativity and innovation. This season features an impressive lineup of 108...

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Ralph Lauren to return to New York Fashion Week with a show in the Hamptons

Ralph Lauren will return to New York Fashion Week this year, opening the event with a show in the upscale coasting enclave the Hamptons on 5 September. “The Hamptons is more than a place. It’s a natural world of endless blue skies, the ocean, green fields, and white fences, rusticity and elegance with a quality of light that drew artists here...

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Without Alaia, Valentino and Fendi, there are gaps in the couture calendar

The Parisian haute couture calendar was brought forward this year to accommodate the forthcoming Olympic Games. However, amidst the flurry of high-fashion presentations, the absence of Alaïa, Fendi and Valentino has been duly noted. Also notable is that Chanel showed haute couture without its former artistic director, Virginie Viard, who made an...

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Milan Fashion Week extends September womenswear schedule with an extra day

In a move to accommodate the growing demands of the fashion industry, Milan Fashion Week (MFW) has announced an extension to its schedule for the September 2024 edition. The event, which takes place between the fashion weeks in London and Paris, will now run from 17 to 23 September, adding an extra day to its previous schedule. The decision came...

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Gucci presents its Cruise 2025 show at London's Tate Gallery

Gucci and London share a long history, with founder Guccio Gucci finding work as a porter in the Savoy Hotel in 1897. Energised by the city’s vibrant spirit, he returned to Florence to open a travel goods store, with the aspiration to narrate, through his luggage, a new way of living. More than a century later, the notion of London as a place of...

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Chanel unveils 2024/25 Cruise collection in Marseille

Chanel's latest Cruise collection unveiling marked a departure from the norm as the iconic luxury brand set its sights on Marseille, France's bustling port city. Amidst the tradition of luxury brands jetting off to far-flung locales for Cruise season, Chanel's choice of Marseille highlights the city's unique standing in France's fashion...

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Cour built a 3D world for Balenciaga's Paris show

Proving that fashion event and show production is an art of its own, American design studio Cour, in collaboration with New York's Good Company, curated a mesmerising 3D world for Balenciaga's Fall Winter 2024 showcase at Paris Fashion Week. The wall-to-ceiling digital installation featured photorealistic landscapes that underwent...

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Paris Fashion Week: Anthony Vaccarello's Saint Laurent is a sheer delight

Anthony Vaccarello’s vision for Saint Laurent’s Fall 2024 presentation turned out to be a sheer delight, quite literally, as the transparent and couture-like hosiery on display felt like an exercise in transparent craftsmanship. It was indeed pantyhose-chic. From sculpted body-hugging dresses, ruched tops, and turban hats to all those leggings,...

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At Milan Fashion Week, Bottega Veneta transcends the ordinary

Bottega Veneta's showcase at Milan Fashion Week stands in a league entirely of its own. Designer Matthieu Blazy, orchestrating a symphony of real clothes, elevated everyday garments — coats, skirts, jackets, trousers, shirts, dresses, and sweaters — to their apogee. In an emotional display, Blazy peeled back the layers, allowing the inherent...

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At Milan Fashion Week, Prada balances beauty and history

In the Fall/Winter 2024 Prada collection, a compelling fusion of history and contemporary aesthetics takes center stage, marking the strongest collaborative exchange between Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons so far as Prada’s co-creative directors. This collection is not merely a chronological exploration, from the feathered caps to the wool skirt...

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At Fendi, stealth wealth is here to stay

A year shy of its centenary birthday, Fendi has begun to amp up its profile, and Kim Jones, the brand’s artistic director of couture and womenswear, may have showed his best collection yet for the Italian luxury house. “I was looking at 1984 in the Fendi archives. The sketches reminded me of London during that period: the Blitz Kids, the New...

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Milan's latest Fashion Hub, an innovative space to foster talent, is open to the public

The Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana’s Fashion Hub is taking place alongside Milan Fashion Week. The influential space aims to foster innovative projects and talents during the city’s biannual fashion weeks and is open to the public. Supported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Co-operation and the Italian Trade Agency, the...