This time it’s in a surrealist atmosphere that Marion Cotillard incarnates the Lady Dior. Just like a Hollywood icon, the actress slips into a short black get-up for the Cruise 2015 collection and, light and mischievous, upsets all the rules of gravity. Marion Cotillard lends her voice to a rhythm from the leader of the...
At Chanel, the lion is more than just an emblem. Everything started with Mademoiselle’s birth on August 19th 1883. From that moment on, the fifth sign of the zodiac, Leo the Lion, became hers. Like the number 5, she found a lucky charm in this feline ever since her very first moments on Earth. She...
Kris Knight grew up in the countryside. That contact with nature and the memories he has of the pastries from his mother’s bakery still imbue the work he creates for Gucci today. In fact, the pastel colors that can be seen on the legendary scarf are none other, in his own words, than the reminiscence...
It’s become a tradition: for the holiday season until January 10th, the den of Parisian fashion hosts the Christmas story of one fashion house every year. After Prada in 2013, Printemps is now partnering up with Burberry. Just for the occasion, the British brand is taking over the window fronts, the façade, and the atrium...
One thing is sure, and that’s the fact that Hedi Slimane is bringing his rock’n’roll twist to this decade. Yves Saint Laurent said “I create for my era and I try to anticipate for tomorrow.” Slimane creates for tomorrow by taking inspiration from yesterday while taking care to overturn contemporary codes in his wake. This...
He who exercised his talent for cuts and his love for lines with Céline, Lanvin, and Cacharel, is today applying himself towards turning iconic pieces from Petit Bateau on their head. On the menu: a reinvented striped sweater, its jersey fabric transfigured and quirky stripes to boot! At the center of his reflection: price. “I’ve...
In January 1970, she slipped three copies of her modern and sensual dress into a trunk, and went knocking on the door of the high fashion priestess herself, Diana Vreeland, legendary director of American Vogue. “She didn’t come to see me with an idea,” recalls Diana Vreeland. “She came with a global offer, a product,...
A couturier runway had never spurred such hatred before. In 1971, just 25 years after the end of WWII, memories of the dark days of the Occupation were still alive. Ration tickets for food and textiles, mediocre fabrics, re-pieced clothing, hodge-podge accessories, and bargain rack fashion was the sort of most women, who were grappling...
On September 26th, Delvaux inaugurated their boutique at 151-154 Galerie Valois, previous home to the engravers of the Kings of France. The brand, created in 1829, once more called on Martine Feipel and Jean Bechameil, who were already present for the renovation of their historic Galeries de la Reine boutique in Brussels. This Luxembourgish artistic...
