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Paris Fashion Week to go digital due to Covid-19

The Fédération de la Haute Couture et de la Mode has confirmed that Paris Men’s Fashion Week and Haute Couture Week will still go ahead, however, there will be no invited guests this season due to Covid-19 restrictions in the country. In an e-mail to FashionUnited, the Fédération de la Haute Couture et de la Mode explained that all shows and...

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Gap and Telfar announce collab at Paris Fashion Week Men’s

American fashion and lifestyle brand Gap and unisex brand Telfar are launching a collaboration. The announcement was made during a Paris Fashion Week Men’s party hosted by Telfar at its multi-level Tronchet store in the French capital - a party that also celebrated the Gen-Z centric brand's autumn-winter 2020 collection which debuted at Pitti...

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Comme des Garcons accused of racism in AW20 menswear show

Japanese fashion brand Comme des Garcons was at the centre of a cultural appropriation row Sunday after it sent out white models in what appeared to be cornrow wigs at its Paris men's fashion week show. The self-appointed fashion watchdog Diet Prada -- which has a record of pulling up labels on racial insensitivity including the notorious Gucci...

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British designers dominating final day of men's show in the French capital

Eels were once a staple dish for working-class Londoners. Now dandies everywhere will be queueing up to wear them after Dunhill's Paris men's fashion week show Sunday went off the scales. Mark Weston -- who is known for his cleverly engineered clothes -- lit up the catwalk with the ingeniously chic way he used the skin of the sea's most slithery...

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Dior AW20 bringing a London twist to Parisian menswear

Kim Jones injected a spot of English aristocratic insouciance into the DNA of Dior Friday, with a starry men's Paris fashion week show that riffed on British upper class eccentricity. This was the fabled French label at its most dandyish and decadent, with top coats with velvet collars, trompe l'oeil grey minks and a staggering...

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Abloh swaps streetwear for structure in Louis Vuitton AW20 menswear show

It has been dismissed as the straitjacket of the wage-slave salary man. But the suit and tie is far from finished if Thursday's Paris men's fashion week catwalks are anything to go by. Having been propelled to the top of fashion as the king of streetwear, Virgil Abloh turned his magpie gaze on the boring old business suit for Louis Vuitton....

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Parisian transport strike causing chaos for men's fashion week

Paris men's fashion week began Tuesday with the French capital in the grip of a 41-day transport strike that has already led to the cancellation of one show. The men's collections dovetail into the elite haute couture shows next week, with the French label Christophe Josse so hit by the chaos that it was forced to bow out. "We found ourselves...

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Behind the scenes: Louis Vuitton SS20 menswear show

Louis Vuitton takes viewers behind the scenes to get an exclusive look at the brand's menswear Artistic Director Virgil Abloh creating an experimental and poetic Men’s SS20 collection. The collection is described by the Off-White designer as being "inspired by the freedom of being a child" with whimsical prints and pastel tones. The brand's...

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British designer Green makes debut and Abloh returns to Paris men's

Brexit hasn't happened yet, but the fashion exodus has already begun. Craig Green, the rising star of British fashion who has won menswear designer of the year three out of the last four years, is quitting London to show in Paris for the first time. He is one of four newcomers to a jam-packed Paris men's fashion week, which kicks off Monday....

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Kenzo to skip men’s fashion week in Paris

Kenzo has confirmed that it will skip men’s fashion week later this month in favour of Paris women’s fashion week in February. In a short statement, Kenzo said that Felipe Oliveira Baptista, who was confirmed as the new creative director in July 2019, would be showing his first collections for the house during women's Paris fashion week....

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Video: How fashion model Indira Scott preps for SS20 menswear show

Some models get to take it easy in June, but Indira Scott spent the first few days of summer in Paris for a busy round of Spring 2020 menswear shows. Her first assignment was Sacai, where designer Chitose Abe cast the Queens native to walk in her co-ed show. Source: Vogue, YouTube.

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Video: Backstage Louis Vuitton men’s Spring-Summer 2020 show

Given exclusive access to Louis Vuitton’s Men’s Spring-Summer 2019 Fashion Show by Virgil Abloh, Loïc Prigent meets the diverse cast ahead of the runway, including footballer Héctor Bellerín, rapper Octavian, skateboarder Lucien Clarke, singer-dancer-actor Keiynan Lonsdale, skateboarder-photographer Evan Mock, among others. Source: Louis...