Complete with a wooden pagoda, a fully-functioning fountain and real grass, the setting for Chanel Haute Couture Spring-Summer 2018 showing was Monsieur Karl’s interpretation of a formal French garden. Compared to previous seasons, you can call it rather understated. Over all it was a ‘pretty’ collection and Lagerfeld stated,‘There is time for prettiness when the […]
Kristen Stewart has become an integral part of the Chanel brand ever since she made an appearance in the Chanel AW15 Couture collection and even starred as Coco Chanel herself in a film shot by Karl Lagerfeld. Following her role in the campaign for the Gabrielle bag, Stewart’s latest Chanel moment is as the face of the […]
The fashion gurus are busy enlisting the emerging trends from the just concluded Paris Haute Couture Week Fall/Winter 2017. They are are debating if the three-dimensional floral embroidery that made couture week a one big garden party was the strongest trend or was it the capes, or the tail-boots and the long gloves or was it […]
In a rush to draw a link between Melania Trump’s pale blue Ralph Lauren ensemble and the coat Jackie Kennedy wore during her own husband’s inauguration in 1961, netizens got it horribly wrong. They uploaded a photo of Melania Trump next to a photo of Katie Holmes in costume for her role in the 2011 Reelz […]
Chanel is coming under fire for allegedly copying garments that were shown as part of its 2015 Metiers d’Art collection. The Paris-based design house showed the collection, which is meant to showcase and “honor the fine craftsmanship that its artisan partners bring to the house’s collections,” on location in Rome last week. Among the roughly […]
The phenomenon of counterfeiting is as old as couture itself. In the early 1900s, fashion forgers often sketched designs they saw in Paris shows and sold reproductions in France and overseas. By 1914, more than two million fake couture labels had been sewn into garments, several of which are currently on view in New York […]
As if we in India didn’t have enough ‘Fashion Weeks’, now we have ‘Sports International Fashion Week’ this November. The promo reads – “Sports, Fashion, Lifestyle” and has a picture of Mahendra Singh Dhoni. This leaves no doubt in my mind that the organizers of this unique ‘Sports International Fashion Week’ have no clue of what […]
Designer Karl Lagerfeld is undoubtedly one of the most respected names in the global fashion fraternity. But even he has succumbed to the ills of plagiarism. Sport shoe brand – New Balance has filed a lawsuit against Karl Lagerfeld under Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) on the 3rd of June for knocking off their signature sneakers. New […]
In the last season at Paris Couture Week, Martin Margiela introduced Denim in Couture fashion and at the ongoing Paris Couture Week, Spring-Summer 2014 it is the humble Sneaker that has achieved the couture status, courtesy Chanel and Dior. Raf Simons showed sneaks at Dior on Monday and Karl Lagerfeld followed suit at Chanel Tuesday. The […]
Cinema Against AIDS, held each year since 1993 during the Cannes Film Festival, is a world-renowned charitable fundraiser and arguably the most coveted ticket of the film festival. The 2013 event will feature “The Ultimate Gold Collection Fashion Show,” curated by Carine Roitfeld as a tribute to Dame Elizabeth Taylor, who was also the co-founder of […]