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Audiences are watching fashion videos, as Saint Laurent racks up 43m views.

The format of digital fashion week is not without its critics, but there are successes that achieve reach and tell interesting stories. Saint Laurent, which last week unveiled a six-minute video of its men’s SS21 collection, has so far garnered 42.4 million global views and an engagement of over eight million, according to data released by the...

18 Sep 2020

Fashion

Is Saint Laurent to unveil its latest menswear collection atop Paris' Sacré Coeur?

At the end of April French fashion house Saint Laurent said it would cancel its Paris Fashion Week ready-to-wear show in September, setting a precedent for other luxury brands to diverge from the rigid global fashion calendar. Instead, the company said it would create its own schedule and set its own pace. September 9th looks to be the brand’s...

8 Sep 2020

Business

Kering posts worst quarterly sales on record

The Asia rebound for luxury goods demand didn’t buy LVMH, which saw a loss of 68 percent in revenue in the second quarter. It also didn’t boost Kering’s sales, which posted a loss of 43.7 percent to 2.175 billion dollars compared to the same period last year. Kering said consolidated revenue of 5.38 billion in H1 was down 30.1 percent. on a...

29 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

Fashion

Saint Laurent to skip Paris Fashion Week

French fashion house Saint Laurent has announced via its social media that it will skip Paris Fashion Week for spring/summer 2021 as its looks to “take control of its pace and reshape its schedule” in the wake of the coronavirus crisis. The statement on Instagram said that it was “conscious of the current circumstance and its waves of radical...

27 Apr 2020

Culture

Musée Yves Saint Laurent Paris to show Betty Catroux exhibit

The Musée Yves Saint Laurent Paris is to place a spotlight on muse Betty Catroux, a fashion icon described as Yves Saint Laurent’s ‘female double’ for its 2020 special exhibition. Running from March 3 until October 11, the ‘Betty Catroux, Yves Saint Laurent, Feminine Singular’ showcase will mark the first time that the museum has given Saint...

5 Feb 2020

Business

Saint Laurent to open leather goods factory in Italy

Kering-owned French luxury label Saint Laurent has plans to open a new manufacturing site for handbags and wallets outside of Florence. Francesca Bellettini, president and CEO of Gucci, told reporters that Gucci would be moving 340 workers to a new 29,000-square-foot site in Scandicci in addition to hiring another 300 workers. Saint Laurent has...

10 Jan 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

Business

Kering reports strong Q3 driven by its core fashion houses

The Kering Group said that it delivered another quarter of high growth in consolidated revenue, up 14.2 percent as reported and 11.6 percent on a comparable group structure and exchange rate basis to 3,884.6 million euros (3,202.2 million dollars). The company said, growth in total revenue of Kering’s Houses up 11.3 percent on a comparable basis...

25 Oct 2019

Fashion

Saint Laurent now selling couture condoms

It is the ultimate tight-fitting -- one hopes -- outfit that no man wishing to impress can do without. French fashion house Saint Laurent is now selling luxury gilt-wrapped condoms. Having made fashion history with "le smoking" tuxedo and skin-tight dresses, it is moving into sheaths of a latex variety. Its designer Anthony Vaccarello unveiled...

1 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

Video

Saint Laurent SS20 runway show in Paris

Saint Laurent presented it's Spring / Summer 2020 womenswear collection this week in Paris, with the iconic Eiffel Tower as the backdrop. The collection, designed by Anthony Vaccarello, is made up of the brands signature tailored wear and sleek black looks, on a stage lit by 100 moving light fixtures. The show was concluded by iconic british...

27 Sep 2019