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Upcoming debuts at Paris Fashion Week

In every fashion week season, a rearrangement of maisons on the calendar unfolds, featuring guest designers, new creative directors, occasional hiatuses and even exits. In the imminent Paris womenswear shows, Louis Vuitton has reclaimed its coveted closing spot on March 5th, contributing to a week brimming with 71 runway presentations and 109...

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Alessandro Vigilante to be next creative director at Rochas

Italian designer Alessandro Vigilante has been named as the next to helm womenswear label Rochas as creative director of ready-to-wear, with his first collection to come in February during Paris Fashion Week for autumn 2024. The graduate of Istituto Europeo di Design (IED) Moda Lab is the sixth creative director to step into the role following...

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Rochas fashion label to rejoin Interparfums

French luxury fashion house Rochas has announced that it will rejoin Interparfums after a two year hiatus. From January 2024, the fashion business will be managed in its entirety by Interparfums, including all marketing, communications, and licensing activities relating to the Rochas fashion label’s mainline. In 2021, Bergamo-based partner...

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Rochas creative director Charles de Vilmorin departs

Rochas has announced that its creative director Charles de Vilmorin has exited the company after two-years in the role. The French luxury house said in a statement: “The Maison Rochas announces that its contract with Charles de Vilmorin has not been renewed.” The 26-year-old designer exited the business on March 31, the brand continued, ending...

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Video: Rochas at Paris Fashion Week

In this video, fashion label Rochas has presented its FW22 collection at Paris Fashion Week (PFW). Watch the video below. Video: Rochas via YouTube Photo credit: Image via Rochas on YouTube

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Video: Rochas SS22 collection

In this video, fashion label Rochas has presented its SS22 collection at Paris Fashion Week (PFW). Watch the video below. Do you want to see more clothing collections? Click here to view the FashionUnited Marketplace. Video: FF Channel via YouTube Photo credit: Rochas, Facebook

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Rochas appoints 24-year-old Charles de Vilmorin as creative director

Rochas, the almost century-old French house, has just appointed the young French designer Charles de Vilmorin, just 24 years old, as the new creative director of the Maison . Position that will go on to hold immediately occupying the place left empty by the Italian designer Alessandro Dell'Acqua , who decided to leave the French house last...

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Rochas suspends menswear line

Rochas is saying au revoir to menswear. The French label has taken a major hit from coronavirus, and will now be suspending their menswear line after three seasons under the menswear direction of designer Federico Curradi. Rochas, which is owned by Interparfums, relaunched menswear in 2019 on the Paris Fashion Week fall/winter calendar. In a...

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Annual overview: Musical chairs of creative directors in 2019

The rotating door of creative directors continues. In 2019 it was another busy year comings and goings in the fashion industry. FashionUnited created an overview of the most shocking changes of the year in case you missed it. January - Bruno Sialelli new creative director of Lanvin The new owner of Lanvin, the Chinese conglomerate Fosun...

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Alessandro Dell’Acqua leaves Rochas

Alessandro Dell'Acqua is out after six years as creative director of Rochas. The designer's fall 2020 collection for the brand, which will debut at Paris Fashion Week, will be his last for the brand. “I am extremely grateful to the Maison Rochas for the path taken from 2013 to the last show to be held in February 2020,” Dell’Acqua said in a...

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Paris fashion week ends, with some surprises

Paris fashion week ended on Sunday, simultaneously closing the autumn winter 2019 men's catwalk season of the Big Four, being New York, London, Milan and Paris. It was a week of anticipation and debuts, with Hedi Slimane for Celine and Clare Waight Keller for Givenchy showing men's only collections for the first time. There were first season...