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Paris fashion week: 5 trends for AW21

Just as the days are getting longer and brighter, designers are showing their collections for the next fall/winter 2021/22 season. Because of the ongoing pandemic, Paris Fashion Week took place virtu
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Highlights: Paris fashion week FW21

Trendstop brings FashionUnited readers an insight into the finale of the Fashion Week season and the top Fall Winter 2021-22 collections from Paris. As we look towards an emergence from lockdown, des
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PFW AW21: Chanel inspired by “Parisian chic” and ski holidays

Chanel’s creative director Virginie Viard took inspiration from what she calls the “idea of cool Parisian chic” mixed with the ambience of ski holidays for the French fashion house&
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PFW AW21: Balmain showcases an aviation-inspired collection

Balmain’s creative director Olivier Rousteing opted for an aviation theme to showcase his autumn/winter 2021 collection during Paris Fashion Week. Captured in an Air France hangar in Paris, Ba
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The rebirth of Sonia Rykiel at Paris Fashion Week

On Sunday, February 28, ahead of Paris Fashion Week, Sonia Rykiel unveiled on Instagram its first show since the brand’s takeover by Eric and Michaël Dayan last year. Like most of the read
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Students kick-off a chaotic Paris fashion week

Paris fashion week opened in unique style on Monday, with students cutting the virtual ribbon for women's ready-to-wear collections at a time of unprecedented chaos in the fashion calendar. Desert
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Preliminary Paris Fashion Week schedule revealed

The highly anticipated preliminary schedule for Paris Fashion Week has been revealed. The schedule currently features 93 brands who will be presenting their fall/winter 2021 collections in what is ex
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PFW: Key shows from the Spring/Summer 2021 edition

At Paris Fashion Week one of the key words summing up SS21 was ‘home made’. A renewed focus of craft, craftsmanship and traditional home making carried through from Milan and into the Fre
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Chanel channels old Hollywood glamour for SS21 show

Chanel went back to the timeless glamour of black and white Hollywood movies in its blockbuster show on the last day of Paris fashion week Tuesday. In its biggest catwalk spectacle since designer Vir
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Dior restarts physical Paris fashion week with a collection for comfort

Dior swaddled its models in cocooning kaftans Tuesday to protect them from an uncertain world, in the first big fashion show staged in virus-hit Paris in nearly seven months. Three hundred masked
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Paris fashion week kicks off 'physigital' Spring/Summer 2021 edition

Paris women's fashion week opened Monday just as the city limited public gatherings in a bid to slow rocketing virus infections in France. Like Milan -- which finished Sunday -- the vast majority
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Valentino to pass on Paris fashion week

Italian fashion house Valentino announced Tuesday it is giving the catwalks of Paris a skip this month because of the coronavirus pandemic, instead presenting its new spring and summer collection in
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Pros weigh in on digital fashion week: "Runways can't reopen soon enough"

Video may have killed the radio star, but on the reaction to the first ever digital Paris fashion week, the queens of the catwalk can breathe easy. Forced online for the first time in its history
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Lyst x Launchmetrics: media's impact on fashion weeks in figures

At a time of worldwide social media usage and lightning fast livestreams a question arises: how do these factors impact the unchanged, traditional fashion weeks, and how is that impact made? Data res
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Louis Vuitton runway not lacking any drama in Paris

Paris - Louis Vuitton ended Paris fashion week Tuesday with one of its most sublime shows, a "clash of epochs" extravaganza at the Louvre museum featuring a 200-person choir in period costumes that
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Chanel AW20 show takes a step further from the Lagerfeld influence

Chanel designer Virginie Viard Tuesday signalled she may put an end to the brand's themed Paris fashion week spectaculars, a year after the death of her legendary predecessor Karl Lagerfeld. The G
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Kanye West criticised as religious service pushes out transgender show

US rapper Kanye West was at the centre of a storm Monday after a Paris show by an acclaimed transgender performer was cancelled at the last minute to make way for one of his religious services. Th
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Stella McCartney on transforming LVMH from within

Stella McCartney pledged Monday to try to change the world's biggest luxury fashion group from within after LVMH took a stake in her label, one of the most sustainable in the world. The British de
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The Hervé L. Leroux label reborn

Since the death of the couturier Hervé Leger in 2017, the house has been mothballed. Today, however, a page turns thanks to his sister who is preparing to present the new collections during Pa
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Fashion legend Jean-Paul Gaultier bows out in style

Jean-Paul Gaultier has bowed out of fashion with all the cheek and showmanship with which he has lit it up over the last half century. The legendary French provocateur bid farewell Wednesday with
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Kenzo to skip men’s fashion week in Paris

Kenzo has confirmed that it will skip men’s fashion week later this month in favour of Paris women’s fashion week in February. In a short statement, Kenzo said that Felipe Oliveira Bapti
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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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