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Dandies back on runway for Paris menswear
For next summer, that meant linen blazers with slightly peaked shoulders in cool shades of sand or slate blue. Trousers were cropped above the ankle, revealing slip-on moccasins in python or fringed suede.
03-Jul-2006 - Details

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Designers start menswear season in Paris
Bad boys ruled as designers in Paris kicked off the menswear season on Friday with a nod to rebellious icons. Superbrand Louis Vuitton referenced 1960s screen idols like Alain Delon and Terence Stamp with a sophisticated spring-summer 2007 collection that ran the gamut from velvet jackets to slim trench coats
03-Jul-2006 - Details

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Fashion week: Men in high heels
After years of stifling conservatism, men face a dizzying array of clothing options ranging from cutting-edge sportswear to unisex collections that blur the distinctions between the genders.
04-Jul-2006 - Details

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Its springtime in Paris
ith the world in such a mess, fashion designers are in a quandary: Should they reflect the troubled times or provide an escape from reality?

Here in the world's fashion center, designers have always shown their escapist side. American designer Zac Posen, who attended an exhibition of his work this week at the Jardins du Palais Royal, credits the French fashion tradition.
09-Oct-2006 - Details

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Gallianos sober side
With the world in such a mess, fashion designers are in a quandary: Should they reflect the troubled times or provide an escape from reality?

Here in the world's fashion center, designers have always shown their escapist side. American designer Zac Posen, who attended an exhibition of his work last week at the Jardins du Palais Royal, credits the French fashion tradition.
09-Oct-2006 - Details

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The shows captured passion and romance
The rediscovery of romance brought the Paris prêt-a-porter season to a close on a grace note at the weekend. Alber Elbaz married both feminity and high-tech in his collection for Lanvin last night. Meanwhile, John Galliano and Alexander McQueen provided powerful and poetic personal visions of femininity, although each approached from different standpoints.
09-Oct-2006 - Details

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Flower power is back
A Hawaii-inspired suit, by French designer Jean-Charles de Castelbajac, may reference one of Australia's classic surf brands, Okanui, but it's unlikely to catch on with surfer types - ditto, the matching teddy bear.
09-Oct-2006 - Details

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Paris designers showcase summer dresses
The dress is the star of next summer's wardrobe, and Paris designers on Saturday offered a dizzying array of options ranging from tunics to baby dolls and sweeping floor-length gowns.
09-Oct-2006 - Details

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GAULTIER BRINGS SEVENTIES COOL TO MODERN DAY PARIS
French style guru Jean Paul Gaultier has never been one for the understated look - and his latest collection proved no exception. The flamboyant designer took Paris Menswear Week by storm on Monday with a stunning new range that owed much to Seventies shows like Starsky And Hutch.
05-Feb-2007 - Details

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Paris runways feature foppish fashion
From a matronly silk scarf knotted over the shoulders to a jogging suit in purple duchess satin, Paris menswear designers are challenging traditional notions of masculinity by borrowing elements from the female wardrobe.
05-Feb-2007 - Details

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Yamamoto leaves Paris fashion crowd reeling
Japanese designer Yohji Yamamoto set layers of full, flounced skirts spinning -- quite literally, on a Paris catwalk Monday at his women's winter ready-to-wear show.

Already rounded like spinning tops, the skirts were filled out by hoops to create further volume, then slowly began to turn around the waist, first at the upper level in black and white polka dot, then followed by the lower one.
27-Feb-2007 - Details

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Fall clothes close Paris fashion week
Paris fashion week drew to a close Sunday with designers setting up camp near the City of Light's top tourist attractions to showcase their creations for next fall. Louis Vuitton planted a transparent tent in a courtyard of the Louvre museum, while Nina Ricci's show in the adjacent Tuileries gardens was held in a tent that had a large opening in the back, giving guests a view of trees shrouded in artificial mist.
10-Mar-2007 - Details

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Yves Saint Laurent: Coal Face Chic
People often complain that we fashion folk always dress in black, but the truth is we love the many shades of that color, and rarely has a designer understood that reality better than Stefano Pilati who staged a consummately cool Saint Laurent collection in forty shades of black in the world's most popular museum on Thursday night.
10-Mar-2007 - Details

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Ungaro designer brings glitzy nightlife to runway
Norwegian Peter Dundas turned his catwalk into a glitzy night club on Thursday, presenting crystal dresses in his third collection for the Emanuel Ungaro label.
Models in sparkling short dresses and tight, high-waisted trousers paraded to thumping disco sounds, with some partially covering their shimmering outfits with wide-hooded fur coats.
10-Mar-2007 - Details

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Fur divides Paris fashion world
Either love it or hate it -- fur is dividing the Paris fashion scene this season.
Big labels such as Jean-Paul Gaultier, Valentino or Christian Lacroix celebrated the return of fur with a selection of trimmed coats this week, winning praise from luxury brands.
10-Mar-2007 - Details

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Paris: Yohji Yamamoto - Returning Heroes
What a difference a few degrees make. Milan - five degrees Celsius hotter than Paris - was obsessed with eco threats, global water shortages and men wearing shorts, in Nicholas Sarkozy's new Paris its all about Officer Poets.
The new French president began his opening day visiting a forgotten Bois de Boulogne shrine to young Parisians shot in the Liberation. In the opening day of the first fashion season of his presidency, Jean Paul Gaultier sent out Sergeant Peter Chic, hot Japanese label Number Nine had Prussian officer bohemians march in a cloisters and Yohji Yamamoto's models were returning warrior gentleman.
02-Jul-2007 - Details

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In Paris, Fairy Tales With a Global Flair
GIORGIO ARMANI has never made a convincing stab at haute couture, the major leagues of fashion. His clothes always seem stiff and out of touch. But consider the power of a name: outside his show in the Place du Trocadéro the crowd waiting to see guests arrive stood three deep. The area is popular with tourists. Still, none of the other couture shows last week produced that degree of public awe.
09-Jul-2007 - Details

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Bedroom chic rules Paris menswear shows
Paris designers showcased casually luxurious outfits to take men from the boardroom to the bedroom Saturday, proving that dressing down has never been so chic. The displays by Emanuel Ungaro, Shawn Collins and Hermes, held on the third day of the autumn-winter men's ready-to-wear collections, were a welcome alternative to the glut of suits seen on the catwalks this season.
21-Jan-2008 - Details

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Colour for men on Paris catwalks
Colour bounced off the catwalks as Paris’s menswear shows kicked off today with the likes of Louis Vuitton, Yamamoto and Yves Saint Laurent predicting a bright autumn-winter 2008-2009.
21-Jan-2008 - Details

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Paris designers spruce up men's suits
Paris menswear designers set their sights on the youth market Friday, with vibrant collections that breathed new life into that perennial wardrobe staple — the two-piece suit. Once the preserve of investment bankers and CEOs, suits have found increasing favor with younger men looking to shed their cargo pants and hooded tops.
21-Jan-2008 - Details