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PFW FW25 street style denim edition

Not so many years ago, fashion show attendees would not have worn jeans or any other denim items. They were considered too casual. That all changed once certain ‘edgy’ designers started to include denim in their ready-to-wear collections in the mid-2000s. That included Vetements, Off-White and Y/Project. Today, denim outfits are as ubiquitous...

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What was (really) new at Paris Fashion Week?

The sun shone brightly over Paris as fashion week for women's autumn/winter 2025 collections commenced. In this light-filled setting, the luxury industry presented its latest offerings, an attempt to stimulate consumer spending, which faced significant challenges in 2024 and, according to consulting firm McKinsey, remains on shaky ground, with...

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Paris Fashion Week: Power plays and designer shake-ups

As Paris Fashion Week draws the curtain on the month-long womenswear season, the collections—ranging from headline-grabbing debuts (Sarah Burton at Givenchy, Haider Ackermann at Tom Ford) to pointed social commentary (Comme des Garcons, Balenciaga)—reflect an industry in flux. Just as the global fashion economy seemed to have regained its...

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Harrods buying director says PFW AW25 was a “study in contrasts”

Paris Fashion Week (PFW) autumn/winter 2025 collections were a “study in contrasts,” according to Simon Longland, buying director – fashion at Harrods, following London Fashion Week offering “refined impact” and Milan Fashion Week leaning “towards caution rather than bold reinvention”. “While some houses navigated creative transitions, others...

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Chanel plays with proportions as Paris Fashion Week wraps up

Chanel presented its Fall-Winter collection on the last day of Paris Women's Fashion Week on Tuesday, playing with proportions and layering in a show designed without incoming artistic director Matthieu Blazy. Staged in the Grand Palais exhibition hall in central Paris, the catwalk presentation featured a monumental black ribbon that spiralled...

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Trends at Paris Women's Fashion Week

Lots of fur and leather, ever-expanding shoulder pads and shoes, splashes of yellow: AFP looks at some of the trends from Paris Women's Fashion Week, which wraps up on Tuesday. Fur Back on the runways last year and in the streets for several months now, fur (mostly fake) was absolutely everywhere in the Fall/Winter 2025 collections, whether as...

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Matières Fécales makes a splash at Paris Fashion Week

Paris Fashion Week witnessed a debut show on Friday from one of the most unusually named brands in the luxury clothing industry: Matières Fécales, which means fecal matter in French. After meeting in fashion school in Montreal, Hannah Rose Dalton and Steven Raj Bhaskaran set up their label 10 years ago in opposition to the idea of the clothing...

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Highlights from Paris Women's Fashion Week

Ahead of the end of Paris Women's Fashion Week on Tuesday, AFP picks highlights from some of the smaller designer shows and their Fall/Winter collections: Zomer flips the script For their fourth collection --the third presented in Paris --the creative duo behind Paris-based Zomer delivered a show in rewind mode at the Palais de Tokyo art space....

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Paris Fashion Week disrupted as unexploded bomb brings travel chaos

Paris Fashion Week attendees, alongside thousands of other travellers, found their plans thrown into disarray after the discovery of an unexploded World War Two bomb near Gare du Nord triggered a day-long suspension of key rail services and widespread travel disruption. The 500kg ordnance was unearthed during overnight construction work on...

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New faces at Tom Ford, Dries Van Noten make debuts in Paris

Tom Ford and Dries Van Noten are set to reveal the first collections from their new chief designers at Paris Fashion Week on Wednesday, underlining how recent changes have left much of the luxury clothing industry in transition. Julian Klausner, 33, took over at Dries Van Noten last September and his catwalk debut is one of the most hotly...

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Changing of the guard at Paris Fashion Week

Paris - The young labels Weinsanto, CFCL and Vaquera open Paris Women's Fashion Week on Monday, kicking off a new edition that is still marked by the game of musical chairs between artistic directors. This first day dedicated to the new guard will begin with the traditional parade of graduates of the French Fashion Institute, considered the most...

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Emerging British designers look to Paris for growth as London Show Rooms returns to PFW

The British Fashion Council (BFC) has confirmed the return of London Show Rooms to Paris Fashion Week, a crucial event for emerging British designers seeking to gain a foothold in the international market. Taking place from March 6 to March 11, 2025, at 2 Rue Saint-Sauveur, Paris, the showroom will feature eight of the BFC Foundation’s most...