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Video: Chanel Haute Couture SS20

Virginie Viard, artistic director of Chanel, continues to make its mark and offers a couture collection Spring-Summer 2020 ascetic spirit. In a setting inspired by a cloister garden, the parade has chained the fresh air and silhouettes punctuated great white collars. A sober and rigorous pace befitting the times. Source: Chanel, YouTube

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Viard delivers schoolgirl chic in Chanel haute couture show

Virginie Viard finally put her mark on Chanel on Tuesday with a beautifully restrained Paris haute couture show that summoned up the convent girl childhood of the fabled French label's founder. The discreet designer, Karl Lagerfeld's righthand woman in his twilight years, shook the Kaiser's ghost from her shoulder to produce some of the most...

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Dior channels its inner greek goddess in feminist driven couture show

Dior staged arguably the most startling show in haute couture history Monday inside a temple to "The Female Divine", with stars including Uma Thurman and Sigourney Weaver filing into the belly of an enormous reclining mother goddess through her stylised vulva. The 75-metre long (250-foot) installation was created by the veteran American feminist...