Tag: paris
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Natalia Grgona of Paris Modes TV: “color and flowers are the NY Fashion Week takeaways”
As New York Fashion Week wraps up, fashion journalist Natalia Grgona of Paris Modes TV gives us her take on this latest round of catwalk shows, showcasing upcoming trends and new faces to watch out for on the runway.
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Is the Victoria’s Secret show sashaying to Paris?
The label and its army of 'Angels' is rumored to be heading to the French capital for the 2016 edition of the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show, WWD reports. In fact, a Paris show wouldn't be the brand's first time in France — its 2000 show was held in the city of Cannes on the Cote…
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New York Fashion Week kicks off in flux
New York officially kicks off the global spring/summer 2017 fashion merry-go-round Thursday, but one thing's clear: fashion week is over as we know it. The biannual event is a calendar staple in a city home to a $98 billion fashion industry, headquarters to 900 fashion companies and which generates huge turnover even if Paris and…
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Paris Fashion Week: provisional spring/summer 2017 show schedule
After New York, London and Milan, the fashion world will be heading to Paris, September 27 to October 5, to see designers present their spring/summer 2017 collections. This new round of fashion weeks will also bring changes to the industry, with mixed menswear and womenswear collections and certain clothing lines heading straight from shows to…
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French fashion designer Sonia Rykiel dies aged 86
By Astrid Wendlandt PARIS (Reuters) – French fashion designer Sonia Rykiel, known for her brightly colored striped sweater dresses, has died at the age of 86, the owner of the fashion label she founded said on Thursday. “It is a sad day but Sonia Rykiel leaves behind her an extraordinary legacy,” Jean-Marc Loubier, chairman and…
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Sonia Rykiel’s best catwalk moments
Sonia Rykiel, the Parisian fashion designer who shook up the French style scene, has passed away at the age of 86. Rykiel burst onto the scene in the late 1960s, and remained the darling of the Parisian fashion world even after Parkinson's disease forced her to take a backseat in 2007, leading to her daughter…
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‘Queen of Knitwear’ Sonia Rykiel dead at 86: family
French fashion designer Sonia Rykiel, the so-called Queen of Knitwear, died on Thursday at the age of 86 after a long battle with Parkinson's disease, her daughter told AFP. “My mother died at 5:00 this morning at her home in Paris from the effects of Parkinson's,” Nathalie Rykiel said. The pioneering Rykiel was a fixture…
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Fashion: three designers to watch for this fall
In 2015 and 2016, the fashion world appeared to be playing a game of musical chairs, ushering in radical changes and a variety of new perspectives for the major labels concerned. The first collections of some of these new designers will be presented in the course of the 2017 spring-summer shows to be held in…