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Iris van Herpen blends DNA engineering and early astronomy into couture

Presented today at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Paris, Iris van Herpen's latest couture collection "Shift Souls" is an intricate blend of early astronomical discovery, recent biological advancement and aquatic art. While the sources of influence seem to have very little in common, the Dutch fashion designer blended them into 18 remarkable haute...

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Rabih Kayrouz joins Paris Couture Week as fully-fledged member

Paris Couture Week is fast approaching, but it looks like some changes are still being made to the calendar. Maison Rabih Kayrouz, which was initially reported to be showing again as a guest member this season, has actually been bumped up to a full-fledged member. While it might not seem like major news, since the brand has been invited to show...

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Valentino closes haute couture to standing ovation

The winter 2018 haute couture week in Paris ended with Valentino's artistic director Pierpaolo Piccioli receiving a standing ovation. The show, which closes the four-day couture week, saw guests rise to their feet at the Hotel Salomon de Rothschild, after 63 looks of exquisite dresses constructed with the highest order of craftsmanship. While...

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Givenchy homage on first day of Paris haute couture shows

Clare Waight Keller, the Givenchy stylist who grabbed the global fashion spotlight by designing Meghan Markle's wedding dress, paid homage to the storied house's late founder in her latest haute couture collection. On the first day of Paris couture week, the Givenchy show, held in the gardens of the National Archives in the city's Marais...

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Five Highlights from Paris Haute Couture Fashion Week

As Paris haute couture week comes to an end on Thursday, we look at the five things we learned from the elite fashion extravaganza: All hail Galliano Genius is a word that gets thrown around in fashion like confetti at a wedding, but many who witnessed John Galliano's two shows for Margiela over the past 12 days believed that in his case the...

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Ulyana Sergeenko sparks race row over N-word following Paris couture show

A Russian designer sparked a race row at Paris haute couture week Wednesday by using a racial slur in a card sent with flowers to a Moscow socialite. Ulyana Sergeenko sent the roses to her friend Miroslava Duma to celebrate her show in the French capital on Tuesday. Duma posted a photo of the bouquet to her 1.6 million Instagram followers which...

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Designer Waight Keller wows with Givenchy couture debut

British designer Clare Waight Keller made a flawless Paris haute couture debut at Givenchy, with critics swooning over her moonlit sonata in black and white. The 47-year-old creator, who quit Chloe in March, had never before tackled a haute couture collection -- the handmade pinnacle of the fashion pyramid. But she made both a daring and...

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Paris Couture Week to debut US labels

Two high-end American labels will make their Paris haute couture debuts Sunday in a week when the French capital pays tribute to two of fashion's legends. New York-based Proenza Schouler and Californian house Rodarte -- who normally present their collections at New York fashion week -- have been invited into the elite haute couture fold, which...

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Paris Couture Week teams up with Instagram & Snapchat

London - The Fédération Française de la Couture, du prêt-à-porter des couturiers et des créateurs de mode, has its sights on sharing its fashion with the masses as the French governing fashion body has teamed up with social media powerhouses Instagram and Snapchat for Paris haute couture fashion week. A photo posted by Paris Fashion Week...

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Vetements, Iris Van Herpen and J.Mendel to show during Paris Couture Week

London - French luxury-streetwear brand Vetements have been granted a guest membership to show on the couture calendar in July by the Fédération Française de la Couture, du Prêt-à-Porter des Couturiers et des Créateurs de Mode, the country's governing body for industry. Together with other acclaimed international designer labels, J.Mendel, Iris...

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Paris Couture Week Up Close

With an average of just six shows per day, Paris Couture Fashion Week is both manageable and pleasurable for its clients and fashion journalists. It also makes attendance possible for all major shows without conflicting time slots as seen during the ready-to-wear calendar. Of course the Fédération Française des Créateurs de Mode aims to fill its...

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Schiaparelli's Couture show to go on

Schiaparelli's Couture show will go on this month, in spite of the sudden exit of the fashion house creative director Marco Zanini last November, the label has confirmed. The Paris-based fashion house will host two shows during the upcoming couture week commencing on January 26, according to WWD. One catwalk show will be dedicated to the press,...