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Slimane goes super skinny in Paris Celine men's debut

Paris men's fashion week finished late Sunday with superstar designer Hedi Slimane's first menswear collection for Celine, which has up to now only dressed women. The "sultan of slim", who previously sent revenues soaring at Dior Homme and Saint Laurent, is credited with inventing the skinny look. And in Sunday night's show in a mirrored...

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What to expect in fashion news from week 4, 2019

What’s going on in the world of fashion this week? FashionUnited takes a look ahead at the upcoming news and events for the 4th week of the year. Below are the main points from the editorial agenda in the period between 21-27 January, 2019. Paris Fashion Week Men’s (17-21 January) This week will begin with with the wrapping up of Paris Fashion...

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Paris fashion week ends, with some surprises

Paris fashion week ended on Sunday, simultaneously closing the autumn winter 2019 men's catwalk season of the Big Four, being New York, London, Milan and Paris. It was a week of anticipation and debuts, with Hedi Slimane for Celine and Clare Waight Keller for Givenchy showing men's only collections for the first time. There were first season...

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Dowdy no more: Men in suits storm back into style

Many had thought it as good as dead, destined for a place in fashion oblivion next to plus fours. But this week a most unexpected thing has been happening on Paris men's catwalks -- the stuffy old suit has come back. In show after show suits and tailored jackets have shaken off the toxic baggage of corporate uniformity. It wasn't supposed be...

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Dior declares men's fashion future to be suited and booted

Dior set out to redefine 21th-century tailoring on Friday in a show which summed up a Paris men's fashion week in which the suit has made a surprising comeback. British-born designer Kim Jones drew inspiration from the French capital's heroic statuary to suggest that there was no better armour for the modern man than well-cut clothes. His...

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Michael Jackson-themed Abloh makes his bid for cool king of Paris fashion

Virgil Abloh bent the knee to Michael Jackson -- a fellow African American from the Midwest whose "prodigious talent catapulted him to unparalleled fame" -- in his Louis Vuitton show Thursday at Paris men's fashion week. The designer -- the first African American ever to lead a major Paris label -- did not make a direct comparison between...

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Louis Vuitton's Abloh makes suit and tie street on Paris catwalk

Having hogged the headlines throughout the last Paris men's fashion week, Louis Vuitton's streetwear supremo Virgil Abloh attempted to repeat the trick Wednesday by giving the suit and tie a millennial makeover. Having set Instagram alight by sending out Michael Jackson-style sparkly white gloves as invitations for his Louis Vuitton show...

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What to expect in fashion news from week 3, 2019

What’s going on in the world of fashion this week? FashionUnited takes a look ahead at the upcoming news and events for the 3rd week of the year. Below are the main points from the editorial agenda in the period between 14-20 January, 2019. Milan Fashion Week Men’s and White Street Market (14 January) This week will begin with with the...

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JW Anderson to show menswear in Paris

British fashion designer JW Anderson is moving his menswear catwalk showcase from London to Paris Fashion Week Men’s for autumn/winter 2019. The move confirmed on the official menswear schedule released by La Chambre Syndicale de la Mode Masculine / Fédération de la Haute Couture et de la Mode in Paris, also revealed that Jil Sander would also...

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Kanye West cries as his muse makes debut at Louis Vuitton

Rapper Kanye West and his friend and muse Virgil Abloh cried in each other's arms Thursday after the US designer made his Paris debut for Louis Vuitton. The pair embraced after Abloh -- who worked hand in glove with West for more than 15 years as his creative partner -- showed his first menswear collection for the world's top luxury brand....

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Men dressed as dogs & pigs at Paris Men's Fashion Week

Paris men's fashion week began in earnest Wednesday with two collections showing what dogs and pigs men can be, as the industry reels from a new sexual harassment scandal. French designer Julien David sent out his models wearing dog's heads, from a macho, man-spreading Doberman to an intellectual whippet and a splayed poodle in dungarees. "I...

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Top trends from Paris Fashion Week Men's SS18

As Paris men's fashion week comes to a close Sunday, one trend for spring summer 2018 and could not be clearer -- bare legs. Fashion clearly feels that the time is right for men to get their legs out for the girls -- or for other men who admire a well sculpted calf. In a week in which a heatwave across Europe saw British schoolchildren and...