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 flawless haute couture debut late Tuesday with critics swooning over her moonlit sonata in black and white. And Galliano, who showed his first Margiela...
Jan 24, 2018
A huge show about the fabled French fashion house Christian Dior which opens Wednesday has had a galaxy of stars making the pilgrimage to Paris. With Hollywood actresses Jennifer Lawrence, Kirsten Dunst and Kristen Stewart already in town for the label's haute couture show, Stewart's "Twilight" co-star Robert Pattinson queued with models Bella...
Jul 5, 2017
It was the fairytale ending to a fortnight of Paris fashion shows. A year ago Danish designer Christine Hyun Mi Nielsen was fired from her high-pressure job as the director of the studio of one of the world's top brands. Fourteen months on she has her own label -- Hyun Mi Nielsen -- with a show on the haute couture catwalk Thursday, the very...
Jan 27, 2017
London - Paris fashion can't get enough of its new enfant terrible Demna Gvasalia, whose rebel Vetements label has been ridiculing its conventions for the last two years. But the trendsetting Georgian -- who now also designs for Balenciaga -- outdid himself at a haute couture week show on Tuesday by presenting a homeless man with a coat fastened...
Jan 25, 2017
Chanel went all out for glitter in its Paris haute couture show Tuesday that channelled the full-on glamour of silver screen goddesses like Marlene Dietrich. You could almost imagine the German diva air kissing designer Karl Lagerfeld -- "Mein Liebling!" -- in the hall of mirrors he had built inside the Grand Palais which was inspired by the...
Jan 24, 2017