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Video: Sacai FW22 collection at Paris Fashion Week

In this video, fashion label Sacai has presented its FW22 collection at Paris Fashion Week (PFW). Watch the video below. Video: Sacai via YouTube Photo credit: Image via Sacai on YouTube

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Dior collaborates with Sacai for first co-branded collection

Dior and Japanese luxury brand Sacai have revealed a co-branded collection. The men’s capsule collection represents a fusion of the identities and cultures of the French and Japanese houses, between Dior men’s Artistic Director Kim Jones and Chitose Abe of the Japanese brand Sacai. The garments amalgamate Dior’s tailoring with Sacai´s sportswear...

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Jean Paul Gaultier returns to ready-to-wear

When Jean Paul Gaultier closed his ready-to-wear line six years ago to focus on haute couture and fragrances, there was little suggestion the French designer would one day return. Despite his illustrious career, the once-dubbed Enfant Terrible of Paris fashion is returning with a pret-a-porter line launching this week. A post on the brand’s...

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Gaultier postponing Sacai couture collection

With the couture shows now cancelled, Jean Paul Gaultier has had to delay Sacai designer Chitose Abe guest designing his next collection. Abe will now unveil her collection for Gaultier next January during the planned next couture season. Couture Week was one of several Fashion Week's to be cancelled thanks to coronavirus, in addition to Paris...

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Jean Paul Gaultier announces new strategy, a new designer every season

Legendary French designer Jean-Paul Gaultier may have hung up his scissors, but his fashion house will live on under an ever-changing carousel of guest designers, he said Wednesday. The flamboyant creator -- who bowed out last month after half a century at the top of the fashion tree with a musical spectacular in Paris -- said a guest designer...

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Sacai unveils two collaborations for the end of the year

Japanese luxury brand Sacai is unveiling two exclusive collaborations for the end of 2018. The first, for the Sacai men’s Spring and Summer and women’s Pre-Spring 2019 collections, is based on the idea of no season. Designer and founder Chitose Abe incorporated elements associated with autumn and winter into the spring and summer collection. The...

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Fashion rallies to support press freedom from Trump

Paris fashion stood up for press freedom Saturday with two brands linking up with the New York Times to show their unease at Donald Trump's attacks on the media. Japanese brand Sacai and French label Etudes used slogans from the newspaper's "The Truth is Hard" advertising campaign on their clothes in their men's winter collections. Sacai...

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Paris Fashion Week brings back the 1970s

On the Paris catwalk Monday, a reappearance of bandanas -- those paisley kerchiefs that were hot back in the 1970s, remember? -- proved the lesson that old can become trendy again if you just wait long enough. Japanese brand Sacai dusted off the accessory and updated it for its Spring/Summer collection, tying it around models' necks to complete...

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NikeLab x Sacai

Sport designer collaborations are becoming huge targets for sportswear giants, Nike has worked with Riccardo Tisci and Pedro Lourenço, while Adidas has been collaborating with Rick Owens, Raf Simons and most recently Kanye West, and now Nike is adding a new partnership with Japanese designer label Sacai, founded by Comme des Garcons alumna...