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24 Apr

EXCLUSIVE: Rochas Parts Ways With Charles De Vilmorin

EXCLUSIVE: Rochas Parts Ways With Charles De Vilmorin
PARIS – Rochas has parted ways with creative director Charles de Vilmorin after a two-year tenure. “The Maison Rochas broadcasts that its contract with Charles de Vilmorin has not been renewed,” the French fashion house said on Monday in a press release provided exclusively to WWD. The 26-year-old designer, known for his colourful paintings tinged with darkness, exited the business on March 31 following the tip of his contract with Rochas parent company Interparfums SA and HIM Co SpA – High Italian Manufacturing, the corporate previously referred to as Onward Luxury Group, which produces the brand’s women’s ready-to-wear, it added. De Vilmorin, who was named to the post lower than a yr after launching his fashion label within the midst of the coronavirus...
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24 Apr

EXCLUSIVE: Laura Ashley Celebrates seventieth Anniversary With Batsheva

EXCLUSIVE: Laura Ashley Celebrates seventieth Anniversary With Batsheva
In 2021, Batsheva Hay and Laura Ashley teamed as much as create their first collaborative ready-to-wear collection crammed with archival, colourful Laura Ashley prints. The partnership was a natural one — Hay’s entire namesake brand originated after wearing a vintage Laura Ashley dress “to threads,” the designer told WWD of her deeply personal connection to the label.  To have fun Laura Ashley’s seventieth anniversary, the duo is releasing their fourth limited-edition Laura Ashley x Batsheva collaborative collection, featuring a Coney Island Beach set and campaign featuring Hay within the playful, girly looks with photographs by her husband, Alexei. “The anniversary felt like a special moment for the prints, and one to actually dig into the very essence of Laura Ashley. All the...
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21 Apr

EXCLUSIVE: Comme des Garçons Is Expanding in Paris

EXCLUSIVE: Comme des Garçons Is Expanding in Paris
Restless fashion maverick Rei Kawakubo — perpetually experimenting with retail formats and modern design concepts — is moving her Comme des Garçons boutique in Paris into the previous location of Burberry’s flagship at 56 Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, WWD has learned. The brand new four-story location can be roughly 50 percent larger — and loads more visible — than the previous site, which was tucked right into a courtyard off the identical tony thoroughfare. For greater than 22 years, it has been demarcated solely with a plaque to the side of the courtyard entrance, much like those indicating dental or medical offices — albeit in red Lucite, not brass. Slated to open in early October, the brand new Comme des Garçons unit...
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20 Apr

Sir John Named Makeup Creative Director of Kilian Paris:

Sir John Named Makeup Creative Director of Kilian Paris:
PARIS — Sir John has been named Kilian Paris’ first makeup creative director, as the sweetness brand delves deeper into the realm of color cosmetics. Kilian Hennessy, founding father of Kilian Paris, and the makeup artist for A-list celebrities corresponding to Beyoncé, Mary J. Blige and Serena Williams, first met on the Hôtel Costes during a Paris Fashion Week. “I knew a lot in regards to the brand,” said Sir John, who had been introduced to it by his best friend. “He brought me to the boutique in Latest York, and I got enveloped on this world. It was just intoxicating. “I felt something — like wow,” continued Sir John. “It was super decadent.” He reminisced that sales associates there knew the best way...
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