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Vetements taps Nina Nitsche, key Martin Margiela Collaborator

London - Nina Nitsche, the long-term first assistant and former successor to Martin Margiela, has left Maison Margiela after close to two decades to take up the design reins at Vetements. Nitsche has been appointed Vetements Collection Director, according to reports from WWD, after working under the wing of John Galliano. In her new role,...

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Paris Fashion Week: Day 4

Loewe's London-based creative director Jonathan Anderson looked to the 80s for inspiration as he had done with his own namesake label during London Fashion Week last month. In Paris he showed modernist geometric prints patterned across dresses layered over metallic trousers. Leather jackets, a Loewe staple, came in classic slouchy silhouettes...

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Galliano to debut Margiela couture in London

Maison Martin Margiela is expected to show its Spring/Summer 2015 couture collection in London at the end of London Collections: Men this January. The show will mark John Galliano's catwalk debut for the Margiela brand, and sources have cited Galliano wanted to show the collection in London first, the city that launched his career after...

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Maison Martin Margiela goes couture

The prestigious French couture governing body The Commission de Classement Couture Création in Paris have accepted Maison Martin Margiela into the world of couture. Also admitted was designer Alexis Mabille. Couture status is determined by the numbers of looks shown; the size of the atelier; the standard of bespoke and handmade pieces; and...