L Maison de Couture’s Founders Are Out to Reboot Paris’s Made-to-Measure Business

Kendall Jenner and Bella Hadid are fans.

Thanks to Instagram accounts like @Gramparents and books like ‘Chinatown Pretty,’ milllenials and Gen-Z are coming to appreciate their gray-haired elders’ fashion sense.

He couldn’t sing, he couldn’t dance, but from Studio 54 to Broadway to Seventh Avenue, he designed his way into a 40-year success story.

An A-list cast of supermodels helped Michael Kors celebrate his 40th anniversary fashion show in a video shot in Manhattan’s theatre district, and released today online.Rufus Wainwright crooned the soundtrack as Helena Christensen, Bella Hadid, Irina Shayk, Karen Elson, Alek Wek, Shalom Harlow Carolyn Murphy, Soo Joo Park — and two dozen others

"The starting point for this collection was a trench that I found in the archives of Monsieur Dior, from 1955," says Maria Grazia Chiuri who in this video presents the savoir-faire and key inspirations behind the Dior Fall 21 women's collection recently unveiled in Shanghai, from Pop updates on the leopard print — a tribute to Mizza Bricard, a muse and collaborator of the founding couturier — to Andy Warhol, working on screen prints in a similar way to the artist’s approach in the '80s. A warm thank you to the house of Fiorucci for providing archive footage.

“Modern Look: Photography and the American Magazine” explores how photography, graphic design, and popular magazines converged to transform American visual culture from 1930 to 1960. The exhibition highlights a time period during which avant-garde strategies in photography and design reached the United States via European émigrés, including Bauhaus artists forced out of Nazi Germany. The unmistakable […]

What is Pop? Ming Xi, Zhang Ziyi and a constellation of stars in Dior debate the topic at the Dior Fall 2021 show by Maria Grazia Chiuri in Shanghai, set to the soundtrack "Let's Disco", composed by Léonard Lasry, and remixed by Giorgio Moroder, with lyrics by Maripol.
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Fashion is one of the most polluting industries in the world. But a small town in Italy called Prato has built its fortune on transforming old scraps into new clothes, particularly knitwear and wool.

Could Prato represent a model for sustainable fashion?

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The pioneering designer spoke to BoF's Imran Amed about continuing to push the envelope for sustainable luxury at the BoF Professional Summit: Closing Fashion’s Sustainability Gap.

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British designer Stella McCartney has been an advocate and pioneer for sustainability long before it became an industry buzzword. But she is still developing new ways to work. More recently that’s included experiments with leather-like material made with mycelium — or mushroom root structures — and efforts to use cotton and wool sourced from regenerative farms, which restore the health and biodiversity of the land instead of purely extracting from it.

“It’s very simple but today it seems very radical, and really it could be the future of fashion,” she told BoF editor in chief Imran Amed in a keynote address at the BoF Professional Summit: Closing Fashion’s Sustainability Gap. McCartney also shared the compromises she has to make as a designer to work within the parameters of sustainable materials and low-waste production methods and what it will take for the wider industry to wake up to its imperative to change:
- Consumer pressure and better regulation will be key for the fashion industry to make changes that are urgently needed. “I don’t think we can rely on our industry to commit to this, as much as we can rely on tomorrow’s customers insisting that this is the only thing they’re going to invest in,” she said. “The only way truly to have significant change in the timeline that we have is for policies to be set into place, for there to be legislation.”
- When LVMH took a minority stake in her brand in 2019, McCartney took on a role advising the luxury conglomerate’s CEO Bernard Arnault on sustainability. "The reality with Monsieur Arnault is that he would never have invested in a brand like mine if he didn’t think that this was the future,” she said. “I think it gives off a huge message of positivity for the industry.”
- For the crop of young designers looking to work sustainably, McCartney has some sage advice: value collaboration and mutual learning over competition; “be a fighter” when it comes to securing better incentives for sustainable practices; and always look for new information on how to be better. “You never stop learning when you work sustainably,” she said..

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This year’s Met Gala will be in September. The Costume Institute has announced its next big show. The subject: American style. Politics are involved.

There’s a rumor that Gucci and Balenciaga will be collaborating. Neither brand has confirmed the news, but Gucci is scheduled to show its new collection, called Aria, on Thursday morning (ET). In the meantime, we can have fun speculating.

Nishijin-ori textiles are known for their exquisite detail, and have been made in the Nishijin area of Kyoto, Japan for over 1,200 years.

Follow the intricate process involved in creating obi (the sash worn with traditional Japanese clothing), using a specialised technique called hikihaku – weaving with precious metallic thread.

From the making of the thread itself, to the weaving on the loom, watch as three obis are made – one from 100-year-old silver foil, one from mother of pearl, and one from the semi-precious stone, lapis lazuli.

Processes:
Silver foil obi: 1:26
Mother of pearl obi: 4:17
Lapis lazuli obi: 6:35

Find out more in our Japan Collection: https://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/japan

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It’s Haute Couture baby! The most expensive clothes in the world! The CHANEL heads of atelier explains all the visual tricks and technical gems of the first Haute Couture collection by Virginie Viard solo.

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This is the third of three videos about this exceptional CHANEL Haute Couture collection by Virginie Viard. You can also see the fittings before the show, at CHANEL on the rue Cambon. There’s is another vidéo about the stars at the show, Margot Robbie and Isabelle Adjani! It’s a CHANEL WEEK!

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Take your front-row seat and experience the Dior Fall 2021 collection by Maria Grazia Chiuri in real time!

The show was held in Shanghai, China, in accordance with the relevant health and safety guidelines.

Neiman Marcus stores appear to be losing their grip on Gucci bags and other luxe goods since the swanky retailer emerged from bankruptcy last fall, The Post has learned. Six months after shedding m…

On Wednesday morning, Vogue revealed its April covers starring Amanda Gorman in a Louis Vuitton Kente gown designed by Virgil Abloh. It was shot by noted photographer Annie Leibovitz and styled by Gabriella Karefa-Johnson.

German sculptures, a fast jet and everything else we’re obsessed with this month

As people keep staying inside, some pajama lovers are investing hundreds or even thousands of dollars on matching pajama sets, luxe robes and other high-end loungewear.

It might seem self-indulgent to get jeans, polos and other everyday garments custom-made, but discerning guys insist bespoke clothes—like these four options—are worth the time and financial investment.