Catherine Deneuve’s auction of her haute-couture collection passes $1m

The French actor’s Yves Saint Laurent clothes smashed estimates when they were auctioned this week in Paris, with one piece setting a world record

Catherine Deneuve is selling her Yves Saint Laurent wardrobe – but that look will never go away

The designer dressed the actor on and off-screen for decades. Although Deneuve is auctioning those outfits at Christie’s, they continue to inspire the likes of Versace and Burberry

Hedi Slimane rips up Celine’s female design philosophy at Paris show

Brutally slender, polished to perfection and a fastidious kind of after-dark decadence, the first show under Hedi Slimane’s tenure signals a new direction for the French fashion house

Louis Vuitton in Paris: regenerating athleisure

The mighty luxury house’s Paris show aimed to reflect ‘the way women dress’ – and, remarkably, succeeded

Fashion makes an exhibition of itself to pull in the public

In a disused building in London, the French Louis Vuitton brand is offering a blockbuster experience

La Tête Haute to open 68th Cannes film festival

A ‘bold and moving’ comedy-drama, directed by Emmanuelle Bercot, is the first film directed by a woman to open the prestigious movie shindig since 1987