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The Chanel Haute Couture Spring-Summer 2021 collection was unveiled today at 2 pm. The Grand Palais in Paris, as per tradition linked to the Chanel maison fashion shows, has opened its doors today to give us this daydream. In fact, in this historic moment, when the women’s world is now resigned to comfy fashion as […]

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Paris Fashion Week 2020 closed yesterday on a high note with spectacular shows from Chanel and Louis Vuitton.

Chanel went back to the timeless glamour of black and white Hollywood movies while Louis Vuitton embraced a gender neutral future.

Tinseltown galore at Chanel

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At Chanel's presentation, an army of the world's top supermodels walked under a huge Hollywood-style sign spelling out the brand's name in its biggest catwalk spectacle since designer Virginie Viard took over the fabled French house from Karl Lagerfeld after his death last year. They included the body positive pin-up, Jill Kortleve, a Dutch model who is a voluptuous size 16 (US size 12).

Covid-19 restrictions may have limited the number of fashionistas allowed into the immense Grand Palais in central Paris, but like the decor, Viard wrote her ambitions large. Her collection was no less than a grand sweep through the long history of the label founded by Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel, with a giant nod to Chanel's time in Tinseltown in the 1930s when she dressed stars like Greta Garbo, Katharine Hepburn, Marlene Dietrich and Gloria Swanson.

"I was thinking of actresses on the red carpet... some of whom we haven't seen in a long time... their faces a little somewhere else as the photographers call out to them," Viard said afterwards.

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The show — dominated by black and white interspersed with splashes of bold colour — coincides with the first-ever museum exhibition dedicated to Coco Chanel in the French capital, which opened last week to rave reviews.

Big screen glamour

Viard recreated and updated some of Coco's most beloved looks, with a nod to her predecessor Lagerfeld's more street fashion sensibility with logos a gogo.

"Gabrielle Chanel and Karl Lagerfeld dressed so many actresses in their films and in their lives," Viard added. "They made us dream."

"Without redoing clothes exactly and falling into vintage, I wanted it to be very joyous and colourful and full of life."

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With Paris Fashion Week 2020 forced largely online by the coronavirus, Chanel streamed the show live for fashion fans. "Lights, cameras, action!" it declared on Instagram as it aped the opening of a silent black and white film, placing a huge Chanel sign on the Hollywood Hills.

Viard kept up the theme of the brand's long association with the silver screen with video clips of models reclining in luxury hotels like movie idols about to attend premieres.

The brand's association with Hollywood began in 1930 when studio mogul Sam Goldwyn begged Coco Chanel to come to Los Angeles to give his stable of stars some "class", offering her US$1 million to come twice a year.

Gender fluidity and stiletto clogs at Louis Vuitton

While Chanel looked back, Nicolas Ghesquiere's Louis Vuitton could not be more resolutely now, with the opening look a sweater emblazoned with "Vote", a rallying call for the liberal left in the upcoming US presidential election.

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But that was as conventionally political as it got, with the highly rated French designer insisting that his eyes were set firmly on the possibilities that gender fluid clothes might offer in the future. "What cut might dissolve the masculine and the feminine?" he asked. "What wardrobe might make them come together in one?"

Ghesquiere said he wanted to bring the world's richest luxury label on a "voyage of exploration... to discover and abolish the last [gender] frontiers."

The bravura show was held in the long-closed La Samaritaine department store, which is due to reopen next year. As always with Ghesquiere, it was all in the cut, with classic business and streetwear uniforms given surprising turns.

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But perhaps the most eye-catching thing about his spring/summer 2021 collection were the shoes, with a line of pointed clog stilettos sending Instagram into spasms.

(Main image: Stephane de Sakutin/ AFP; Featured image: Lucas Barioulet/ AFP)

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Dior swaddled its models in cocooning kaftans at Paris Fashion Week on Tuesday to protect them from an uncertain world, in the first big runway show staged in the virus-hit city in nearly seven months.

Three hundred masked movers and shakers braved the drizzle to worship at the "cathedral of Dior", as wags dubbed the pavilion with stained glass windows the mythic French brand built in the Tuileries Garden for the occasion.

If the first major live catwalk show in the world's style capital since the lockdown was meant to be a celebration of fashion, no one told the choir.

A dozen sopranos screeched out an ear-splitting mourning dirge as the models winced by. The mounting atonal music was strangely at odds with the looks, which were mostly comfort clothes to soothe nerves and souls addled by months of anxiety.

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Dior's Italian designer Maria Grazia Chiuri created a luxury wardrobe to huddle down at home and to reassure — clothes that almost cuddled the wearer. Many had a bohemian 1970s vibe, with floral hair bands worn with large golden earrings.

"We are living a different kind of life, much more private when it comes to our relationship with our clothes, much more personal and intimate," Chiuri told AFP. "People want to protect themselves"

Infinite layers of colour

Chiuri, the first woman ever to lead the label and an evangelist for feminism, said her ample coats, full-length dresses and loose trousers were about wrapping the wearer in "infinite layers of colour" as the novelist Virginia Woolf liked to do.

She also riffed heavily on the classic men's shirt and traditional Slavic smocks and tunics, after being sparked by a "simple white shirt" worn by the American feminist writer Susan Sontag.

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While much of the collection with its Far Eastern and Ottoman influences seemed very un-Dior, Chiuri said one of her starting points was a drawing she found by the brand's founder showing silhouettes he created for Japan in 1957.

So she took Christian Dior's classic bar jacket and give it an oriental twist, making it longer and wider and wrapping it with a tied belt at the waist. "The idea was to make a jacket that you feel at home in" and that would be beautiful with comforting colours like burnt ochre, light blue and heathered fabric.

She paired them with subdued dresses and long skirts with paisley and floral tapestry patterns. "We have made something to make you feel good, to give you positive energy in the morning," Chiuri insisted.

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"The colours are varied but very nuanced," she added. "We worked on lot on soft and rustic fabrics like linens and knitted cloth," commissioning ikat prints from Indonesian women who specialise in the traditional technique.

The young French brand Coperni also staged an in-person catwalk show Tuesday on top of the Tour Montparnasse skyscraper. The design duo Arnaud Vaillant and Sebastien Meyer, who previously led Courreges, included stretchy jersey clothes with antibacterial properties as well as offering UV protection.

(All images: Lucas Barioulet/ AFP)

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The well-heeled clients now expect fashion designers to go to them in their palaces and penthouses for personalised presentations.

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The well-heeled clients now expect fashion designers to go to them in their palaces and penthouses for personalised presentations.

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Street Style Tips From Paris Fashion Week 2020 ⇒ After 68 amazing runways, Paris Fashion Week 2020 has come to an end. But more than just the brands, the trends for the next seasons are also influenced by street style. Let’s take a look at the best outfits from the past week.

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For those who don't know, Fashion Farm Foundation (FFF) is a non-profit organization established back in 2012, founded by a group of fashion entrepreneurs and fashion educators in Hong Kong.  Their goal is to spotlight Hong Kong-based fashion designers, industry experts, and retailers, and encourage collaborations among the business, educational and cultural sectors. FFF also serves as a bridge between young designers and fashion experts to share experiences and exchange ideas through a wide range of interactive events such as runway shows, seminars, individual interviews, forums, and group discussions. 

During the most recent Paris Fashion Week, FFF brought Hong Kong fashion talents to Paris where they unveiled their latest Autumn/Winter collection at the Libération studio which used to be the former studio of a French newspaper. In partnering with Create Hong Kong, FFF and the eight fashion designers and labels opened the show of the HKFG PARIS AW20 presentation and reception. On hand was Anaïs Jourden, Cynthia & Xiao, From Other Planets, FromClothingOf, W;nk, YAH!, KA WA KEY and Yeung Chin. What was special about the event was that FFF gave the fashion designers the opportunity to showcase their collection in-person to notable fashion publications, buyers, influencers like Susie Bubble, Yoyo Cao, and others from around the world. Take a look at some of the collections below.

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Be Amazed By Paris Fashion Week 2020’s Runway Looks ⇒ In Paris, the fashion capital of the world, some of the most iconic brands gathered to present their 2020 Fall/Winter Collections. Discover the best outfits taken straight from the runways at Paris Fashion Week 2020.

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Luxury French brand Chanel is set to unveil its Fall/Winter 2020 collection. The show is one of the biggest and most important events during fashion month, and has been one of the most coveted tickets among editors. For the first time ever, Chanel's runway show will be shown live online. See what Virginie Ward has in stores for us here.

March 3, 2020 | 5:30 PM (HKT)

 

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The Fall-Winter 2020/21 Ready-to-Wear collection will be presented on March 3rd. Live from Paris on Instagram Stories. #CHANELFallWinter @inezandvinoodh #InezandVinoodh

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See what Claire Waight Keller dreamt up for the cooler season ahead as you catch the Autumn/Winter 2020 collection as it comes down the runway in Paris here.

March 2, 2020 | 3 AM (HKT)

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The next and final fashion capital for Fashion Week, is Paris. Prior to the Maria Grazia Chiuri  showing her collection for Dior's autumn/winter collection, Dior has released a teaser video for fans worldwide. For those who won't be attending the show, catch all the runway looks live here.

February 25, 2020 | 9:30PM (HKT)

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