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Preview: Ready-to-wear International Fashion Weeks SS19

The new season of ready-to-wear international fashion weeks for Spring/Summer 2019 edition is upon us. Shoes are being polished, hairdressers booked and frocks picked up for dry cleaning. To start NY
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The impact of fashion week: beyond the runways

CDMX - New York, Milan, Paris and London: the four largest Fashion Weeks have been in the spotlight for decades. However, the same creative minds behind these Fashion Week majors also arrange over on
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Rodarte coming back to New York Fashion Week in September

Rodarte is coming back home. New York Fashion Week seems to have lost a bit of its luster recently, after several relocations and a number of brands choosing to showcase their collections overseas in
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Lagerfeld reaches for immortality with Chanel Paris show

Legendary designer and bibliophile Karl Lagerfeld made a pitch for immortality Tuesday by setting his Chanel Paris haute couture show in front of the Academie Francaise. The venerable institution,
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Dior bans Instagram bling at Paris haute couture week

Fashion powerhouse Dior brushed aside the whims of the Instagram generation with its deliberately low-key new haute couture collection Monday, arguing that the world's most expensive clothes don't ne
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Rapper Tommy Cash swaps the stage for Paris catwalk

The outrageous post-Soviet rapper and conceptual artist Tommy Cash -- best known for his wacky hits "Leave Me Alone" and "Winaloto" -- made his catwalk debut Thursday as a model in Rick Owens' dramat
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No hard feelings: Paris fashion star Abloh reaches out to Kanye West

Virgil Abloh paid tribute to his friend and longtime collaborator Kanye West as the US designer took star billing as Paris men's fashion week began Tuesday. Relations between the pair have been te
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The five big trends from Paris Fashion Week AW18

Balaclavas, headscarves, feisty feminism and the warming glow of yellow and burnished gold... We pick out the biggest trends in the autumn-winter 2018-2019 collections as Paris fashion week finishes
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Chanel attacked for felling trees for Paris fashion show

Karl Lagerfeld created a spectacular mid-winter wood for his Paris catwalk Tuesday, but immediately fell foul of environmental activists who accused him of felling century-old trees for the show.
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Paris catwalk dazzles as Balmain leads charge of flash brigade

Paris fashion got flashy Friday with an explosion of retina-burning reflective fabrics hitting the catwalk expressly designed to light up the red carpet. Three days before the biggest glitz fest of
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Husband's Paris catwalk love letter to 'Queen of Punk' Westwood

Designer Andreas Kronthaler made a touching declaration of love to his wife Vivienne Westwood at their label's storming Paris fashion show Saturday. The flamboyant Austrian creator -- who many inclu
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Balenciaga looks to Angela Merkel for inspiration at Paris Fashion Week

Angela Merkel's very particular sense of style got some major catwalk cred Sunday on the day the German chancellor was guaranteed her fourth term in office. Fashion's hottest designer Demna Gvasal
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Maison Margiela and Givenchy wow Paris haute couture

British designers kicked up a storm Wednesday at Paris haute couture week with highly-praised shows from Givenchy's Clare Waight Keller and John Galliano at Maison Margiela. Waight Keller made a f
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Givenchy to show men's couture

Givenchy will debut its return to the haute couture schedule in Paris next Tuesday. Clare Waight Keller, the company's new artistic director, is expected to show a selection of couture for men alongs
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Chambre Synicale announces additions to Paris Men's Fashion Week

While dates and times are still being figured out, the Fédération de la Haute Couture et de la Mode has released the latest additions to the calendar for Paris Men's Fashion Week. Earli
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Vetements joining Paris Men's Fashion Week

The latest update to all the Fashion Month schedule changes comes from Vetements. The luxury label designed by Demna Gvasalia, also artistic director of Balenciaga, has announced it will be joining t
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Balenciaga combining women's and men's runway shows

In the ever changing landscape of the runway show and the fashion calendar, who knows what is going to happen next. The latest fashion house to make adjustments to their show dates is Balenciaga, the
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FashionUnited's Top 4 Trends from Fashion Weeks

London - With Paris Fashion Week for Spring/Summer ‘18 come to an end, the four main international women’s wear ready to wear Fashion Weeks have officially closed. As the industry’s
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The 5 top trends at Paris Fashion Week

With Paris Fashion Week coming to an end Tuesday, here's a look at the five big takeaways from the catwalks. Frills The future will be frilly. Sparingly deployed on the diagonal or in a whole flotill
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Chanel goes aquatic as Vuitton channels regime rock chic at PFW

Karl Lagerfeld built a huge waterfall and flooded the vast Grand Palais for his spectacular Chanel show Tuesday, the final day of Paris Fashion Week. The veteran designer sent out an army of "water n
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Chanel goes for PVC transparency at Paris Fashion Week

Paris - Karl Lagerfeld built a huge waterfall and flooded the vast Grand Palais for his spectacular Chanel show Tuesday on the final day of Paris Fashion Week. The veteran designer sent out an army
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Shock as platform Crocs step out on Paris catwalk

Paris fashion was reeling Sunday from Balenciaga's latest outrage/stroke of genius -- platform Crocs. The luxury brand, which hit the headlines in April with its 2,000 USD (1,700-euro) blue leather "
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Korean K-fashion dreams of emulating K-pop at PFW

With insults being traded almost daily between Washington and Pyongyang, Koreans could be forgiven for feeling they are dancing on the edge of a geo-political volcano these days. Yet South Korea coul
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Vivienne Westwood hosts 'spectacularly idiosyncratic show' at PFW

Flamboyant fashion designer Vivienne Westwood revealed the secret of her eternal youth Saturday -- only taking a bath once a week. The 76-year-old queen of punk fashion let it slip after watching he
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What's hot at Paris Fashion Week

With Paris Fashion Week reaching its climax, we look at what is causing a stir on the catwalks. Vive le close cut! Oversized has been cut down to size. For the last two years the catwalks have been
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Andra Dumitrascu goes underground at Paris Fashion Week

Paris Fashion Week went underground in more ways than one when a rising young avant-garde designer held her show on the city's Metro. Berlin-based Andra Dumitrascu had to think quickly when the venue
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Givenchy unveils first collection by Clare Waight Keller

British designer Clare Waight Keller stole the limelight with the most high profile debut this Paris fashion week. On Sunday morning the house of Givenchy officially said goodbye to its haute-goth ae
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Preview: Ready-to-Wear Fashion Weeks SS18

As the fashion industry gears up for the international Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2018 season, which officially kicked off on September 6 with shows from key US designer such as Tom Ford and Donna K
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Paris haute couture extended by extra day

The French haute couture calendar has been extended with an extra day to accommodate a busy schedule. The autumn winter 2017/18 collections will begin Sunday, July 2 and end on Thursday July 6. The l
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Margiela cancels men's SS18 fashion show

Maison Margiela has announced it has cancelled its Spring Summer '18 men's catwalk show in Paris, which was due to be held during Paris fashion week later this month. The Diesel-owned brand stated it
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