Chanel owners pay themselves $3.4bn dividend – four times company’s net profit

Despite fall in revenues and profits last year, Alain and Gérard Wertheimer took double dividend they received in 2015

Chanel Horlogerie J12·XS: a tribute to Lesage unique savoir-faire and Haute Couture

On a cuff tailored by luxury couture embroidery atelier Maison Lesage, Chanel Horlogerie dictates the Haute Couture rules and time. Chanel’s unique creation will be present at the world-renowned charity event Only Watch. Since 1987, Chanel gives allure to time. In a tribute to Lesage unique savoir-faire and Haute Couture craft Chanel Horlogerie creates a … Read more

Hainan Airlines is taking uniforms to haute couture heights

Hainan Airlines debuted their new Laurence Xu uniforms at Paris Couture Week Fall/Winter 2017.The fusion of traditional Chinese elements and popular international fashion created an Oriental masterpiece that turned heads in Paris. The uniforms by Laurence Xu Haute Couture combine elements of classical, time-honored Oriental aesthetics and the silhouette of a modern Western suit, infusing … Read more

Haute on the high street: the best designer collaborations this autumn

Want catwalk looks at pocket-money prices? From JW Anderson at Uniqlo to Erdem for H&M, here are the collections to note for next season

Major Paris exhibition celebrates 70 years of Dior fashions

Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams also shows off the work of his successors such as John Galliano and Maria Grazia Chiuri

Haute couture fashion week gets pastels, petals and pinkness

The Rodarte show was set in a 16th-century cloister at Port-Royal Abbey – a crumbling square around a lush, overgrown garden