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SS21 Menswear fashion week highlights

In a season unlike any other, the international Fashion Weeks were still able to bring a host of designer collections to an expanded global audience. This challenging yet exciting time for designers has seen new levels of experimentation and exploration with new formats and concepts, paving the way for a hybrid digital/physical future. Dior...

7 Aug 2020

Fairs

Why luxury groups are betting on the West Bund Art Center in Shanghai

The first cases of Covid-19 were discovered in China, but ironically it is in China that the major fashion and luxury groups will seek their salvation. The reason is quite simple: on the one hand, the recovery has already taken place in China, even if the reality is mixed across the country. Beijing, for example, is at half mast, but Hong Kong...

5 Aug 2020

Fashion

Celine to debut men's collections online

Celine has surprised the industry by deciding to participate in the digital iteration of Men's Fashion Month after all. The LVMH-owned luxury brand will be unveiling a project titled "The Dancing Kid" that will go live on Instagram, celine.com, and TikTok. Celine began teasing the project on their Instagram feed with images of a banner that said...

27 Jul 2020

Business

Paris court awards damages to Hedi Slimane for Kering's unlawful use of YSL images

Hedi Slimane is to be awarded 618,000 euros in damages after a Paris court ruled Kering unlawfully used his YSL photographs without consent. The decision follows years of acrimonious legal disputes between the designer and parent company of YSL where Slimane was creative director from 2012 to 2016, who’s departure from the French luxury brand...

25 Jun 2020

Culture

Hedi Slimane curates quarantine film selection for online streaming

Hedi Slimane has curated a selection of films available for free viewing during the quarantine on streaming network Mubi. The Celine artistic director has selected a mix of Hollywood hallmarks and edgy cult classics, including Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now and Wim Wenders Paris, Texas. According to The Cut, the list includes the kinds of...

28 Apr 2020

Fashion

Ten AW20/21 womenswear trends to bet on

The catwalk shows of the autumn-winter 2020/21 season ended Tuesday evening with abreathtaking Louis Vuitton show. Marked by an underlying worried mood linked to the coronavirus epidemic, Fashion Week nevertheless Delivered with a spate of new trends and brilliant highlights. Here is a list of FashionUnited’s top ten autumn-winter 2020/21...

9 Mar 2020

Fashion

Paris fashion week AW20: Balmain channels 80s elegance

Paris fashion week fell back in love latex and the horsey set Friday, with Balmain rolling the clock back to the 1980s in a glitzy show that could have been called "Pretty Woman goes to the Polo Club". With Celine's Hedi Slimane already committed to reviving the bourgeois pearls and twin-set look, Balmain's artistic director Olivier Rousteing...

2 Mar 2020

Fashion

Fashion pieces and trends that defined the decade

The decade closes and took with it it’s signature feminine silhouettes and accessories. From the Bekett wedge sneaker from Isabel Marant to the long pleated skirt from Dior, including the shoulder jackets from Balmain, the army trend and the influential minimalist-intellectual wardrobe from Phoebe Philo for Celine, FashionUnited has picked up...

31 Dec 2019

Video

Slimane brings 1970s to Paris in Celine show

Hedi takes the stage once again with Celine, this time for the Spring / Summer 2020 show in Paris. This collection, however, stands out from his previous shows with the brand previously designed by Phoebe Philo. Slimane is heavy on the denim, a common trait during the SS20 shows in Paris. The collection is extremely nostalgic taking inspiration...

7 Oct 2019

Fashion

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. Two of Paris fashion's biggest stars, Hedi Slimane of Celine and Saint Laurent's Anthony Vaccarello, have both warned of a new "puritanism". Slimane...

30 Sep 2019

Fashion

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. To the delight of secondhand shops across the world, Slimane again raided the 1970s wardrobe lock, stock and culottes in his Paris fashion week show...

30 Sep 2019

Fashion

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 jeans on a designer's catwalk, largely without too much tweaking, dissecting or deconstructing, as is necessary to support a new design proposition, is rather...

30 Sep 2019