Etre Blank: French women on the new normcore
As body adornment becomes increasingly middle-class, French women are rebelling, creating their own normcore look
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Fashion world fears designer burnout as pressure takes its toll
As star names quit Lanvin and Christian Dior, is the business model of six high-profile collections a year sustainable?
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The fashion icon and daughter of immigrants grew up in Corsica and made it to the top of the fashion world. One thing is certain: she’s not going back to France
Thoroughly modern Stella McCartney muses over real women
The idea of the artist and their muse influenced the designer’s Paris fashion week show, but her interpretation was firmly rooted in real life
Louis Vuitton’s Nicolas Ghesquière brings digital punk to Paris catwalk
Show at Frank Gehry-designed gallery, featuring models resembling wild creatures from Mad Max, sees fashion house marry high art with big commerce
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Influential label eschews fashion circus and commissions Danish artist Thomas Poulsen, aka FOS, to create a catwalk space for its strong spring/summer show