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Balenciaga: Haute Tech
After a season of strikingly predictable fashion in Milan it was a real relief on Tuesday to witness in Paris the fall/winter 2005 collection of Balenciaga, whose creative director Nicolas Ghesquiere is surely one of the few genuinely original voices in fashion
22-Mar-2005 - Details

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Fashion Locomotive Pulls Into Paris
After New York, London and Milan, the fashion locomotive is pulling into Paris, with 89 catwalk shows in eight days of fall-winter ready-to-wear for 2005-2006
04-Mar-2005 - Details

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Lagerfeld's comfortable chic for next winter at Chanel
German designer Karl Lagerfeld dazzled the Paris fashion crowd with his sporty, comfortably chic autumn-winter 2005-06 ready-to-wear collection for Chanel -- offered to both women and men
07-Mar-2005 - Details

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Christian Dior’s Aviator Chic
Edie Sedgwick and Howard Hughes finally got a chance to meet in the Christian Dior women’s ready-to-wear collection, the latest to show that designer John Galliano’s focus is on the commercial grounds rather that airy flights of fancy
07-Mar-2005 - Details

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Galliano caters to stars at Dior with chic winter ready-to-wear
British designer John Galliano proposed a sensual, chic winter wardrobe for off-duty starlets at Christian Dior, while Japan's Naoki Takizawa offered a poetic study in contrast at Issey Miyake.AFP PhotoAFPSlideshow: Fashion"Just what do off-duty icons wear?" Galliano asked in the program notes
07-Mar-2005 - Details

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Luxury and fur the themes in Paris
JEAN-Paul Gaultier offered a luxurious winter collection in Paris that drew inspiration from The Aviator and Doctor Zhivago, while John Galliano turned his models into screen sirens.
07-Mar-2005 - Details

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Paris' ready-to-wear week prepares for record 170 collections
The fashion critics, photographers and buyers will be running themselves ragged next week to catch some of the 170 shows in a spring-summer ready-to-wear season featuring more collections than Paris
07-Mar-2005 - Details

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Suits and sparkle: the two faces of Jean-Paul Gaultier
French designer Jean-Paul Gaultier offered women a chance to indulge both their serious and playful sides next winter, with a collection of trim suits for daytime and sparkling gowns for evening
07-Mar-2005 - Details

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Paris: military Valentino targets the jet set
Valentino made a dashing bid for the youth market at the Paris prêt-à-porter autumn/winter 2005-6 season yesterday with a military-nautical inspired collection aimed at daughters of his jet-set clientele
07-Mar-2005 - Details

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Paris revives the glamour girl
As fashion week in the French capital nears an end, Sunday's lineup of designers served as a clear resume of today's Paris trends: Shock is out, chic is in, glamour is back!
07-Mar-2005 - Details

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Paris fashion: black is back
The world's top designers glanced at the bottom line before Paris ready-to-wear week, which ended on Monday, offering a safe return to basic black with their commercially sound, elegant collections for next winter.
19-Mar-2005 - Details

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Fashion and Paris: A love affair
On the closing evening of Paris Fashion Week at the stately Theatre National de Chaillot, Yves Saint Laurent's Stefano Pilati sent a willowy model down the runway in a slim sweater with a heart-shaped cut-out exposing her milky white chest
24-Apr-2005 - Details

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Ritu Beri goes to Paris Fashion Week
Indian fashion designer Ritu Beri will show her Autumn/Winter 2006 couture collection at the Paris Fashion Week.

Following her marriage to Delhi-based industrialist Bobby Chaddha last year, Ritu has been busy traveling, writing her book on fashion, and lapping up plum assignments in between (like designing Katie Holmes’ dress).
06-Jul-2005 - Details

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Mens Collection from YSL Channels Literary Gentleman
The YSL designer Stefano Pilati opened the proceedings rather slowly with several dandified Parisian looks of three-piece split suits, with subtly contrasting jacket, vests and trousers.
08-Jul-2005 - Details

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Westwood spices up Paris fashion week
A flying penis, voluminous robes and a call to release a convicted prisoner – fashion designer Vivienne Westwood brought it all to Paris in a shrill show
02-Mar-2006 - Details

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Paris Mens Fashion: Two Tone Dior
One couldn't help feel a tinge of nostalgia for New Wave and all things Two-Tone on Tuesday evening in Paris when witnessing the Dior Homme show, even if the collection was inspired by the latest musical trend to emerge from the UK.
15-Jul-2005 - Details

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Paris fashion for spring-summer 2006: a romantic voyage
Designers who showed spring-summer 2006 collections in Paris on Tuesday took women on a long, romantic vacation.

In the streets of the French capital, a transport strike snarled traffic and heated up tempers. But it was pure calm at Issey Miyake, where creative director Naoki Takizawa brought women to the marshes of Asia for a cool look at his Singing Bamboo summer collection
13-Oct-2005 - Details

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Theater looms large in Paris fashion shows
Birdsong sounds over a catwalk. Church bells chime near another. Models with fruits and flowers in their hair stride over straw as if on a Sunday stroll through the countryside.
11-Dec-2005 - Details

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Sumptuous elegance on Paris catwalks
With cool winter elegance on offer at Rochas and Dries Van Noten's quietly sumptuous take on womanly style, Belgium showed off the power of its design talent here on Wednesday
03-Mar-2006 - Details

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Golden gowns, textures like kaftans and carpets
Paris may not have been chosen to hold the next Olympics, but designers are certainly going for gold at this prêt-à-porter season.
03-Mar-2006 - Details