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The highlights and lowlights of Paris Fashion Week SS20

The Spring Summer 2020 Paris catwalk season has come to a full stop. It began last Monday with Mame Kurogouchi and ended with Louis Vuitton 8 days later on Tuesday evening. A key takeaway from the Pa
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Woman crashes Chanel Paris Fashion Week runway finale

A spectator jumped onto the catwalk at Chanel's Paris fashion week show Tuesday and walked unchecked with the models for the big finale. The woman, a guest at the show, ran down from her seat and joi
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18th century influence in PFW SS20 Shows

Dries Van Noten and Christian Lacroix channelled "Barry Lyndon", Andreas Kronthaler and Vivienne Westwood Mozart, and on Sunday US designer Thom Browne went potty for Madame de Pompidour. With des
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Slimane and Vaccarello: Not all designers embracing the inclusive catwalk movement

The culture war has come to the catwalk. Divisions over race, gender and the climate crisis are bubbling to the surface in a world where political debate is usually about as welcome as bingo wings
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9 year old double amputee debuts on Paris childrenswear runway

A British girl who lost both her legs when she was just 18 months old has made her Paris catwalk debut on the Eiffel Tower. Nine-year-old Daisy-May Demetre from Birmingham walked for a luxury French
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Critics still up in the air on Hedi's Celine

Fashion critics gave Hedi Slimane's root-and-branch remake of Celine some grudging respect Saturday after excoriating the superstar designer's earlier "thrashing" of the brand's feminist legacy. T
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In Paris, denim on the catwalk leaves little to want for

Denim, since the dawn of fashion, has always been a wardrobe staple. It’s the uniform of the everyday, the most versatile of styles that has surpassed any trend since the 1960s. But to see jean
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Fashion week gets political: Galliano takes a stand against fascism

British designer John Galliano railed against Brexit and populism threatening "the moral fibre of society" after a pointed Paris fashion show at which he paid tribute to World War II heroes for savin
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PFW: Off-White shows without Virgil Abloh

Virgil Abloh was nowhere to be found after Off-White's catwalk presentation during Paris Fashion Week, even if it didn't deter ardent fans to stay away. Abloh, who is recovering from stress in Chicag
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Marine Serre shows pregnant models in PFW SS20 show

Spring summer fashion is about the race -- often in vain -- to get a flat tummy. But that was not the case on the Paris fashion week catwalk Tuesday, where two pregnant models walked the runways.
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PFW SS20: Dior secret forest wows Paris

When it comes to elaborate catwalk sets, Paris Fashion Week always wins out, and for spring/summer 2020, Dior created its own secret indoor forest using 164 trees that it plans to replant in three di
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Animal rights, climate concerns and a missing Abloh casts a shadow over PFW

Paris women's fashion week is bracing itself for climate change and animals rights protests as it starts Monday, with one of its biggest stars -- Virgil Abloh -- missing. Extinction Rebellion acti
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Brexit, tariffs wars, and eco-fashion drive strategic change at ‘Big Four Fashion Weeks’

New York – With the four major fashion weeks (New York, London, Milan, Paris) either in full swing or right ended, we review how they’re adjusting to better accommodate to lead on an ever
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Dior generates more buzz than Chanel on Paris Fashion Week

Everybody knew Chanel would be the center of attention on Paris Fashion Week, given the unfortunate circumstances of Karl Lagerfeld’s passing. Even so, Dior managed to score the most relevant m
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PFW: Louise Trotter presents debut Lacoste collection

British fashion designer Louise Trotter presented her debut collection for Lacoste as its new creative director during Paris Fashion Week and offered up a strong fashion direction for the French heri
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Paris fashion week heralds in the new seventies

Paris - The shows must go on, was the rhetoric in Paris for its latest fashion week, as the 'gilets jaunes' cordoned off France's capital streets every weekend, making it challenging for retailers, s
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Louis Vuitton ends Paris fashion week with night in two museums

Designer Nicolas Ghesquiere had teased that his Louis Vuitton Paris fashion week show late Tuesday would be a "shock". He wasn't kidding. While guests had been invited to the Louvre Museum in the
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Chanel to pay tribute to Lagerfeld with his final collection

Karl Lagerfeld's final collection for Chanel will be presented in the Grand Palais in Paris on Tuesday, the scene of some of the legendary designer's greatest triumphs. The brand that he is most
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Teeny tiny handbag becomes a fashion sensation

It's so small wags joke that it can only hold a Tic Tac. But French brand Jacquemus' teeny weeny bag, "Le Mini Chiquito", is arguably the biggest thing at Paris fashion week. Never has someth
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Stars turn out for Stella McCartney's bid to save rainforest

Stella McCartney showed what can be done with upcycled clothes and fabrics in a classy Paris show whose front row was filled with celebrity fans led by Oprah Winfrey. The British designer -- a v
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A stitch in time: Fashion's new stars want to save the world

A new generation of rising fashion stars alarmed by the plight of the planet are designing in a radically different way to their elders. Some of the most interesting shows of Paris fashion week
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It's 'The Munsters'! Paris catwalk's arch Lurch

Gigantic monocles and a new look that had more than a touch of Lurch from "The Munsters" gave the Paris catwalk an arch American air Sunday. Balenciaga's red-hot designer Demna Gvasalia, whose i
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Hedi Slimane shakes up Paris Fashion Week with a new look Celine

Paris fashion week saw an about-turn on Friday when Hedi Slimane forfeited his signature skinny youth-styled collections for a bourgeois, 70s and Celine look of old. By Celine of old, we mean old, ol
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Does Bruno Sialelli have the formula to save Lanvin?

When Bruno Sialelli was announced as Lanvin's creative director a month ago, he had a very tough task ahead of him. The brand's iconic creative director, Alber Elbaz, had been ousted, his successor,
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Chloe tips hat to Lagerfeld's 'genius' at Paris show

Chloe paid tribute to its longtime designer Karl Lagerfeld at its Paris fashion week show Thursday, with a compendium of his wit and wisdom left on every seat. One of the German creator's last mus
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PFW: Tabula rasa at Lanvin

A new dawn at Lanvin aims to reboot the ailing French fashion house after its third attempt since the departure of Alber Elbaz in 2015. Under new ownership of Chinese conglomerate Fusion Internationa
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Teddy Girls make comeback in Dior's rebel Paris show

Dior went back to the feisty Teddy Girls of 1950s Britain for its vision of a feminist future in its Paris fashion week show Tuesday. With black leather jackets, long nipped-waist Dior "New Look
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Anthony Vaccarello lights up Paris Fashion Week

Anthony Vaccarello has really come into his own at Saint Laurent. We know his penchants, that of the molto sexy, shorter than short brigade, but this season there was more than meets the eye original
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Ralph Lauren launches pop-up café for Paris Fashion Week

Ralph Lauren is opening a pop-up café in its Paris flagship store just ahead of the AW18 fashion week. Called Ralph’s Coffee, the spot is located inside the store on 173 Boulevard Saint-
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Dior declares men's fashion future to be suited and booted

Dior set out to redefine 21th-century tailoring on Friday in a show which summed up a Paris men's fashion week in which the suit has made a surprising comeback. British-born designer Kim Jones dre
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