From basic hair to dirty-stop-out chic: summer style lessons from couture

Haute couture is fashion at its most eye-wateringly expensive and extravagant – but, from mussing up your ponytail to reclaiming pink, some of the shows’ strongest styling tips can be adopted for free

Schiaparelli has named Bertrand Guyon as Marco Zanini’s replacement as design director

Bertrand Guyon – the new design director for the house of Schiaparelli. The relaunched house of Schiaparelli, backed by Italian luxury magnate Diego Della Valle, appointed fashion designer Bertrand Guyon as the new design director for the Schiaparelli Maison. The first Schiaparelli collection orchestrated by Bertrand Guyon will be presented in Paris next July during … Read more

The truth is never as obvious as what it might appear to be: a revelation for luxury brand through the lens of Gabrielle Chanel

This study is not a biography of Gabrielle Chanel, whose life story everyone has probably read about in different places. Rather, it is an account of how an intuitive brand manager brilliantly wielded the resources at her disposal in line with the social, cultural, ideological,and philosophical norms at that particular time, whether intentionally or not, … Read more

#womenfashionpower: How influential women have used fashion to define and enhance their position in the world

Women Fashion Power – Look at what the woman next to you is saying.   Confidence is very powerful. From Elizabeth I to Margaret Thatcher, Coco Chanel to Lady Gaga, the clothes women wear have always been a powerful form of self-expression and part of a sophisticated visual language. WOMEN FASHION POWER exhibition opened at Design … Read more

Step back in time and retrace the “50s – fashion in France”. Haute Couture’s golden age

In February 1947, the Christian Dior‘s first collection revolutionizes the codes of the fashion and the femininity. A new exhibition at the Parisian Palais Galliera titled “The 50s: Fashion in France, 1947-1957” returns on the great fashion moments of this decade considered the haute couture’s golden age. 100 outfits and accessories from the Palais Galliera- … Read more