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26 Sep

The Ones to Watch in Paris for Spring 2024

The Ones to Watch in Paris for Spring 2024
PARIS — Ballet training, the design process, feminine rage, U-turns and sartorial clashes are among the many ideas that this quintet of brands is bringing to Paris for spring 2024. Alainpaul With a 10-year profession at brands including Vetements and Louis Vuitton under his belt, Alain Paul is constructing his brand Alainpaul on solid foundations. However the fundamental influence for his debut collection, set to bow on Saturday, will not be fashion but an earlier passion: his childhood training as a ballet dancer. He joined the Ballet National de Marseille on the age of eight and left at 18 to pursue a profession in fashion, earning degrees in brand management from the Kedge business school, and fashion design from Istituto Marangoni. “Those 10...
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20 Sep

Three Debuts in Presentations at Milan Fashion Week Spring 2024

Three Debuts in Presentations at Milan Fashion Week Spring 2024
MILAN — It’s not only runway shows. On this edition of Milan Fashion Week crammed with debuts — led by the buzzy trifecta of Sabato De Sarno at Gucci, Peter Hawkings at Tom Ford and Simone Bellotti at Bally — there are also first-timers to look at off the catwalk.  Enriching the busy schedule of presentations, three brands are to unveil their course under latest creative directors on Thursday. These include Fiorucci launching its latest chapter under the vision of Francesca Murri; Fabiana Filippi moving into uncharted territory with its first creative director, Lucia De Vito, and Jacob Cohën unveiling its first important collection designed by American talent Matthew Adams Dolan. Here, a preview of what to anticipate from these collections. Fiorucci Energy was running...
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25 Jun

Ones to Watch at Paris Men’s Spring 2024

Ones to Watch at Paris Men’s Spring 2024
PARIS — As the boys’s spring 2024 season opens in Paris with a Pharrell-shaped bang at Louis Vuitton, brands from around the globe are vying for attention on an effervescent schedule. Amongst those WWD has its eye on are Toyko-based Bed j.w. Ford, Parisian label C.R.E.O.L.E., Lagos Space Programme and 4SDesigns. Bed J.W. Ford Back on June 25, 2015, designer Shinpei Yamagishi was found attending the Raf Simons show in Paris and that’s where the thought of showing his own label within the French capital began to coalesce. Eight years later to the day, that’s exactly what he'll do with the official debut of Bed J.W. Ford, the label he founded in 2010 with Keisuke Kosaka, now the visual director of the...
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10 Jun

Hoor Al Qasimi Sheds a Light on Community for

Hoor Al Qasimi Sheds a Light on Community for
LONDON — Hoor Al Qasimi, creative director of London-based brand Qasimi, collaborated with 84-year-old Sudanese artist Kamala Ibrahim Ishaq as a way of shedding light on the 2023 Sudan conflict. Qasimi didn’t do the same old act of borrowing the prints for her collection. As a substitute, she fixated on a number of of Ishaq’s works and drew her own inspiration from some while she plastered others as a print onto the clothes. “Ishaq did a painting called ‘People in Crystal Cubes,’ so I desired to take this concept of crystal-ism and crystal cubes to bring it into this story. It’s more about how the artist works,” said Qasimi during her London presentation at Somerset House, where the London Art Biennale is...
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