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Slimane goes super skinny in Paris Celine men's debut

Paris men's fashion week finished late Sunday with superstar designer Hedi Slimane's first menswear collection for Celine, which has up to now only dressed women. The "sultan of slim", who previously sent revenues soaring at Dior Homme and Saint Laurent, is credited with inventing the skinny look. And in Sunday night's show in a mirrored...

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Paris fashion week ends, with some surprises

Paris fashion week ended on Sunday, simultaneously closing the autumn winter 2019 men's catwalk season of the Big Four, being New York, London, Milan and Paris. It was a week of anticipation and debuts, with Hedi Slimane for Celine and Clare Waight Keller for Givenchy showing men's only collections for the first time. There were first season...

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Maison Kitsuné appoints former Celine director Yuni Ahn as Creative Director

South Korean designer Yuni Ahn has been announced as Maison Kitsuné’s new Creative Director. She will be leading the design of menswear and womenswear across all Maison Kitsuné lines. Her first collection will be presented on January 18, during Paris Fashion Week. “Ahn has a deep understanding of Maison Kitsuné’s current opportunities and shares...

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Fashion in the news: the best fashion reads this week

Every Friday, FashionUnited selects the most interesting reads about the fashion industry published across US news outlets. Here’s what you may have missed this week: Dolce & Gabbana accused of racism While last week Victoria’s Secret was the one deemed out of touch and out of time, this week it was Dolce & Gabbana’s turn to be accused of being...

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Celine to stage its very first menswear show in January

When Hedi Slimane was announced as Celine’s new Creative Director, the French label also let the world know it would no longer restrict itself to womenswear. While the fashion designer did feature both women’s and men’s outfits on his catwalk debut during Paris Fashion Week, fashionistas around the world are still waiting for a show exclusively...

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Phoebe Philo era sees Céline re-sale value surge

Proof that women are loyal to designers who create wardrobes based on their everyday needs, sales have spiked for Céline pieces under former creative director Phoebe Philo. The RealReal, a site dedicated to pre-owned luxury, said it saw sales surge 30 percent for Céline collections when the announcement was made Philo was leaving and Hedi...

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Post-Slimane’s Celine, 5 epic design debuts that bombed

As we step over the critical carnage of Hedi Slimane’s debut collection for Celine, and the puzzling disappointment of Riccardo Tisci at Burberry, let’s regain perspective by reviewing some key moments throughout fashion’s history where the hired gun at a beloved house shot himself in the foot but still hobbled on towards victory. In fashion no...

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Fashion’s obsession with youth more bankable than ever

New York - One of the pushbacks against Hedi Slimane’s Celine debut seems to be that he has effectively replaced Phoebe Philo’s grown-up, self-assured, sophisticated woman with her teenage daughter. A gawky, rebellious waif straight from central casting who stays out all night in barely-there clothing is the French house’s new message. But of a...

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Paris fashion week controversies: pregnant bellies, gagged models and whitewashed catwalks

London - A woman with a leather wicker mask could barely see through the plastic covered eyes. Another had her mouth sewn shut a la Hannibal Lector in Silence of the Lambs, this time wearing a gold mask with holes cut out to see. A third was bound with her arm tightly sandwiched inside an elaborate blazer. Gagged, silenced and bound? This was no...

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Philophiles versus Slimaniacs in fashion's new civil war

If Hedi Slimane had crushed a kitten under the heel of one of his studded boots he might have provoked less indignation than his debut show for Celine. The howl that went up after the hottest show of Paris fashion week on Friday night has since turned into a civil war on social media between his defenders -- the Slimaniacs -- and the supporters...

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PFW: Celine, a deja vu of Slimane past

London - The collective goodwill and hopeful anticipation the entire fashion industry held for Hedi Slimane’s new dawn at Celine was quashed from the very first look. Outraged editors, loyal Philophiles and any one with an opinion - cue all of Instagram - collectively panned Slimane’s Celine debut, which at best was a deja vu of the designer’s...

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Slimane back in black as king of Paris fashion week

Superstar designer Hedi Slimane declared that black is back Friday as he returned to the Paris catwalk after a two-year absence to revolutionise Celine. With his two biggest fans, Lady Gaga and Karl Lagerfeld, sitting next to each other in the front row, Slimane drew a pitch-black portrait of his hometown which he called "Paris The Night". He...