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Paris Fashion Week SS24: events outside the official calendar

Paris Fashion Week (PFW) SS24, dedicated to the Spring/Summer 2024 womenswear season, kicks off on September 25 in the French capital. 108 fashion labels will showcase their collections within the Fédération de la Haute Couture et de la Mode (FHCM)’s official schedule. But what is happening beyond the official fashion week calendar?...

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Balmain collection robbed ahead of Paris fashion show

Thieves have made off with more than 50 items from the French luxury fashion brand Balmain's new collection just 10 days before its Paris Fashion Week show, the company's creative director, Olivier Rousteing, said on his Instagram account. "Our driver called us to say that he had been attacked by a group of people. More than 50 items were...

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Change is in the air: These are the fashion debutants for SS24

Nothing is as constant as change - that's probably what some fashion houses thought, too, and so the upcoming fashion weeks for the Spring/Summer 2024 season are all about new beginnings. To keep track of all the excitement, FashionUnited has rounded up the most exciting debuts of the season. A minimalist debut at Helmut Lang New York Fashion...

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Marni, Casablanca and Peter Do: Paris Fashion Week SS24 is full of first timers

As fashion month quickly descends upon the industry, the federations from each fashion capital have begun to publish their official schedules, giving an insight into what we can expect from their own locations. For Paris, that will seemingly be a roster led by first time exhibitors, who are dominating the French fashion week’s lineup for the...

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Swedish Fashion Council and Fashion East to showcase at PFW

Swedish Fashion Council is returning to the Fashion [X] showroom for the Paris Fashion Week spring/summer 2024 season in collaboration with London-based talent incubator Fashion East. Located at 43 Rue Notre Dame de Nazareth in Paris, the Fashion [X] showroom will run from September 27 to October 4 showcasing prominent young brands from the SFC...

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Fashion and film merge as Paris shows its opulent side

From an absurdly opulent film shoot at the Opera Garnier to a Chanel catwalk along the Seine, fashion week offered a very different view of Paris on Tuesday from the riots of recent days. The country is still licking its wounds and facing up to the deep societal divisions exposed by days of violence sparked a week ago by the police killing of a...

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Celine cancels fashion show as France mourns

French fashion house Celine has cancelled its menswear show in Paris this weekend due to ongoing riots sparked by the police killing of a teenager, designer Hedi Slimane said Saturday. "A fashion show in Paris, while France and its capital are bereaved and bruised, seems... inconsiderate and totally misplaced," Slimane wrote in French on...

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Jacquemus turns Versailles lake into fashion front row

One of the canniest rising stars of fashion, the French house Jacquemus put on perhaps the most luxurious show of the season in Paris on Monday, putting stars such as Victoria and David Beckham on boats on the lake of the Palace of Versailles to watch the catwalk along the water's edge. Credits: Jacquemus SS24 in Paris, Courtesy of Jacquemus...

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Sci-fi Dior show boldly puts focus on 'real clothes'

Dior put on an austere sci-fi spectacle at Paris Fashion Week on Friday that wowed the audience with models rising unexpectedly out of hidden trapdoors. Despite the impressive gimmick, Dior's creative director Kim Jones told AFP the stark, metallic set design was aimed at putting the focus on the outfits -- not always the case in the...

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Skin on show at Paris menswear week

Plunging necklines, short-shorts and bottoms peaking out -- this has been a menswear week in Paris with plenty of skin on show. From upstart brands such as Egonlab to fabled houses Hermes and Loewe, designers have been keen to lay things bare for a more liberated male clientele. Tiny shorts were the signature look at the Hermes show Saturday....

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Givenchy offers eclectic mix from military to sharp suits

French house Givenchy on Thursday proposed an eclectic wardrobe for a man ready for all scenarios, from impeccably cut jet-black suits to military-look tank tops and khaki pants. The show was held in the grounds of the Invalides, home of the war museum in Paris, and attended by stars including Jared Leto and Paul Dano. Artistic director Matthew...

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Pharrell Williams for Louis Vuitton presents a show worthy of a Hollywood production

To inaugurate its first Louis Vuitton spring summer 2024 collection, Pharrell Williams organized an event with guaranteed buzz. On Wednesday June 21, 2023, to attend the presentation of the first Louis Vuitton collection by the new, and famous, men's creative director, Pharrell Williams, guests embarked on a yacht at the level of the Quai...