Month: March 2016
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Paris fashion rediscovers its rebel heart
Paris fashion has rediscovered its taste for rebellion with designers playing fast and loose not just with the old rules of couture but also with France's ban on the full-face veil. The mould-breaking French label Vetements — the new darling of the fashion press — staged a show full of teenage revolt and defiance in…
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The hottest beauty looks from Paris Fashion Week so far
Paris Fashion Week is nowhere near finished, but its catwalks have already revealed some strong beauty looks for Autumn / Winter 2016. Perhaps the look that generated the most headlines came courtesy of Balmain, where Creative Director Olivier Rousteing took his army of It models and mixed things up by dressing them in color swap…
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Rihanna designs shoes for Manolo Blahnik
Rihanna has teamed up with legendary shoe designer Manolo Blahnik on a racy new footwear collection. The singer, who has been flexing her fashion design muscles recently with the launch of her Fenty x Puma line, will debut the collection on May 5, WWD reports. Rihanna broke the news to her Instagram followers with a…
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Paris Fashion Week: Valentin Yudashkin – ‘This collection was inspired by the folktales of the Urals’
With Paris Fashion Week running March 1-9, Relaxnews caught up with Russian fashion designer Valentin Yudashkin, whose Fall-Winter 2016/2017 collection will be unveiled on Sunday, March 6 at 10:00 AM local time. What was the inspiration behind the new collection? The amazing beauty of the Urals and Siberia, the heroes of fairy tales of Russian…
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Paris Fashion Week: Masha Ma – ‘I look to eccentric minimalism, an underground culture where gender has no relevance’
With Paris Fashion Week running March 1-9, Relaxnews caught up with Masha Ma, who will reveal the Fall-Winter 2016/2017 collection of MASHAMA on Sunday, March 6 at 5:00 PM local time. What was the inspiration behind the new collection? An underground culture where gender has no relevance and everything is reimagined.
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Paris Fashion Week: Bill Gaytten for John Galliano – ‘A military motif is prominent in the new collection’
With Paris Fashion Week running March 1-9, we caught up with Bill Gaytten, the creative director of the John Galliano label, who will reveal the house's Fall-Winter 2016/2017 collection on Sunday, March 6 at 3:00 PM local time. What was the inspiration behind the new collection? A military motif is prominent throughout the collection, but…
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Paris Fashion Week: Rahul Mishra – ‘the philosophy of slow fashion is the soul of our brand’
With Paris Fashion Week running March 1-9, we caught up with Indian fashion designer Rahul Mishra whose Fall-Winter 2016 collection will be unveiled on Saturday, March 5 at 6:00 PM local time. The predominant blue that comes from porcelain's heritage also symbolizes the spirit of Paris, the city of love, which emerged with strong resilience and…
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Security on High Alert at Paris Fashion Week
Military patrol outside major shows (Dior and Lanvin, included) as Paris is still under a state of emergency following the November terror attacks.
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The fur flies! Ralph Lauren teddy bears spark lawsuit
A Manhattan designer of stuffed animals on Thursday sued Ralph Lauren Corp , accusing it of creating an illegal market for stuffed teddy bears resembling her own. Samantha Goldberg said Ralph Lauren since 2001 has been selling teddy bears handmade from imported Scottish cashmere by her company, Alvin & Sparky LLC. She said her “Big…
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Designer Esteban Cortazar on the wild nights that inspired his upcoming Paris Fashion Week collection
With Paris Fashion Week running March 1-9, Relaxnews caught up with Esteban Cortazar, whose autumn/winter 2016 collection previews at 7pm on Monday, March 7. What inspired this new collection? The words “freedom” and “restriction” were strongly present when I was designing my collection.