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PFW: Hermès imagines urban summer, KidSuper creates a fairytale and Ziggy Chen lightens with linen
Paris – Faced with the sweltering heat in Europe, French fashion house Hermès proposed a lightweight style for men spending summer in the city on Saturday; trousers were favoured over shorts, with clever designs to combat the heat. Trousers and a jacket made of finely braided leather strips, reminiscent of a summer chair, were a particular...
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Karl Lagerfeld's country house to be auctioned in July
Paris – Karl Lagerfeld's country house on the outskirts of Paris was auctioned on July 1, 2024, the notary in charge of the sale reported. The 600 square metre, fully renovated, 19th-century house is situated in Louveciennes, about 12 miles southwest of Paris. 'Villa Louveciennes' was purchased by the designer in 2010 and kept until his death in...
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Salvadoran President accuses Paris Fashion Week of ‘glorifying criminals’
San Salvador – Salvadoran president, Nayib Bukele, criticised Paris Fashion Week on Sunday for "glorifying criminals", following a show which depicted, as a protest, prisoners held in El Salvador’s maximum-security mega-prison. Mexican-born, US designer Willy Chavarria presented a show in Paris on Friday in which several tattooed men knelt,...
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Julian Klausner revisits classics for Dries Van Noten; CamperLab debuts in Paris
Paris - On Thursday, during Paris Fashion Week, Belgian designer Julian Klausner presented his first menswear show for Dries Van Noten, a dazzling SS26 collection, boldly revisiting menswear classics. Meanwhile, Spanish brand CamperLab, the experimental offshoot of Spanish footwear brand Camper, made its debut at the Parisian event with a simple...
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Classic luxury and streetwear cross paths in Paris with Anderson, Mihara Yasuhiro and Chavarria
Paris - Dior is set to present its new artistic director, Jonathan Anderson, at Paris Fashion Week Men’s this Friday. Anderson, the designer who radically changed the century-old Spanish firm Loewe, now has the responsibility of doing the same with all of the French brand's collection lines. Since Christian Dior founded the powerful brand in...
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Seoul asks Temu, AliExpress to pull children's products over safety concerns
The Seoul city government has asked online retail giants Temu and AliExpress to suspend sales of certain children's products over safety concerns, saying Friday that some goods far exceeded local limits for hazardous substances. Chinese e-commerce titans like Shein, Temu and AliExpress have seen a surge in global popularity in recent years,...
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Paris fashion museum sheds light on Rick Owens’ gothic universe
Paris – From Saturday, the Palais Galliera in Paris will shed light on the dark and gothic universe of American designer Rick Owens. This is the first French retrospective of this unique and avant-garde creator, a symbol of underground fashion. Also, for the first time, the Parisian fashion museum held an exhibition in daylight, which is not...
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Egonlab pays homage to Breton craftsmanship at Paris Fashion Week
Paris – Exaggerated shirt points, jackets transforming into hoods, and lace headdresses: the creators of French brand Egonlab reinterpreted Breton artisanal heritage on Wednesday at their spring/summer 2026 menswear show during Paris Fashion Week. The design duo, Florentin Glémarec and Kévin Nompeix, presented a unisex show, with impeccably cut...
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Saint Laurent takes men to the seventies; Louis Vuitton proposes eclecticism
Designer Anthony Vaccarello's seventies-inspired vision for Saint Laurent's menswear collection and the eclectic musical celebration from Louis Vuitton, under the ever-restless direction of Pharrell Williams, marked the first day of Paris Men's Fashion Week. ‘For summer 2026, Anthony Vaccarello evokes a moment suspended in time (...) where...
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Paris Fashion Week Men's SS26: What to look out for
Paris - Men’s Fashion Week returns to Paris on Tuesday with highly anticipated highlights: Saint Laurent is back on the official calendar and, most notably, Jonathan Anderson makes his debut at Dior. After a turbulent start to the year with numerous changes in artistic direction, this spring/summer 2026 (SS26) season highlights the upheavals in...
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