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Balenciaga looks to Angela Merkel for inspiration at Paris Fashion Week

Angela Merkel's very particular sense of style got some major catwalk cred Sunday on the day the German chancellor was guaranteed her fourth term in office. Fashion's hottest designer Demna Gvasalia sent out more than a dozen jackets and coats with Merkel hips in his Paris fashion week show for Balenciaga. The Georgian-born wunderkind, who grew...

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Vetements joining Paris Men's Fashion Week

The latest update to all the Fashion Month schedule changes comes from Vetements. The luxury label designed by Demna Gvasalia, also artistic director of Balenciaga, has announced it will be joining the Paris Men's Fashion Week calendar next year. Gvasalia has become notorious for shaking up the Fashion Month calendar, having shown Vetements at...

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"&amp;amp;amp;gt; Balenciaga Spring/Summer 2018 collection by Demna Gvasalia Paris Fashion Week, 1 October 2017. Video: FF Channel, YouTube

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Paris Men's Fashion Week pumped with 'Punk Attitude'

Paris men's fashion week kicks off Wednesday with its reigning enfant terrible Demna Gvasalia again cocking a snook at convention by staging a "no show". The brains behind the ultra hip Vetements label -- whose voluminous hoodies and re-cut Levi jeans sell almost as fast as spinners -- said he was bored with tired old catwalk traditions. "I got...

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Balenciaga’s Centenary: A Retrospective

In order to celebrate its 100th anniversary this year, fashion house Balenciaga has organised a retrospective entitled Balenciaga: l’oeuvre au noir, which will open at the Musée Bourdelle in Paris. The exhibition features Cristobal Balenciaga’s all-black, elegant and refined designs. To mark the occasion, FashionUnited has charted the history of...

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Christine Hyun Mi Nielsen joins Paris fashion elite a year after getting the sack

It was the fairytale ending to a fortnight of Paris fashion shows. A year ago Danish designer Christine Hyun Mi Nielsen was fired from her high-pressure job as the director of the studio of one of the world's top brands. Fourteen months on she has her own label -- Hyun Mi Nielsen -- with a show on the haute couture catwalk Thursday, the very...

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Vetements owns the catwalk at Paris Couture Week

London - Paris fashion can't get enough of its new enfant terrible Demna Gvasalia, whose rebel Vetements label has been ridiculing its conventions for the last two years. But the trendsetting Georgian -- who now also designs for Balenciaga -- outdid himself at a haute couture week show on Tuesday by presenting a homeless man with a coat fastened...

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Fashion no longer relevant to 'regular' man's wardrobe

Global men's fashion weeks have come to an end, and those following the sartorial trajectory of London, Florence, Milan and Paris will have an overwhelming sense of relief. It was an impactful season filled with anticipation, new debuts, and a hunger for meaning of what fashion means in an industry often dislodged from its surroundings. From...

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'Little England' takes over catwalks in Paris ahead of the EU referendum

It may already be too late...But as Britain prepares to vote on whether to leave the EU, the Little England look has suddenly become fashionable. Cricket jumpers, brogues, boating blazers and even neo-Morris men popped up on the Paris catwalk Wednesday. Nor is fashion's new-found anglophilia confined to the upper classes. Sweatpants, parkas,...

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What to look out for at Paris Men's Fashion Week

With what seems like half of Europe's male population in football shirts for the Euro 2016 championships, Paris designers will try to lift the tone Wednesday with the start of men's fashion week. Nearly 50 fashion houses will unveil their spring and summer collections for 2017 in the French capital, which is also hosting some of the...

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Balenciaga to launch debut men's collection for Spring 2017

London - Balenciaga has set its sights on winning the hearts of men around the world. The French fashion house has revealed it will be launching its debut men's wear collection for Spring 2017, under the guidance of its new artistic director, Demna Gvasalia. Balenciaga moves into men's wear In order to present the new venture, which is certainly...