5 stand-out shows at Paris Fashion Week AW24 – so far: from Dior’s graffiti logos and Saint Laurent’s sheer tops, to Chloé’s 1970s femininity, Rick Owen’s knit dresses and Undercover’s daywear

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Rabanne’s Julien Dossena, for instance, keeps reinventing the label known for its shiny chain mail and disco vibe. This time around, he did it with a preppy take on all that shine and sparkle. Designers such as Isabel Marant, meanwhile, never fail to distil the essence of the chic Parisian aesthetic that has come to define French fashion and influence the daily wardrobes of cool girls around the world. A menswear-inspired look at Schiaparelli autumn/winter 2024. Photo: AP For a heavy dose of glamour, you can always rely on Schiaparelli, the Paris-based brand revived by Tod’s Diego Della Valle and…

What a no-phone fashion show means in the social media era

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To receive the Vogue Business newsletter, sign up here. Prior to The Row’s Autumn/Winter 2024 presentation on Wednesday in Paris, guests were emailed a request: “We kindly ask that you refrain from capturing or sharing any content during your experience.” In place of phones, guests were given Japanese notepads and a pen to take handwritten notes. The request — immediately shared on social media, naturally — has raised questions around what it means to instantly share images and videos from the runway online, and what shutting off that access means. Online, some praised the nostalgia and sophistication of the choice.…

Loewe fuses high and low, tailoring and couture, to wow Paris Fashion Week

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PARIS (AP) — A green labyrinthine art gallery surrounded Loewe’s luminaries on Friday where they breathed crisp air from enveloping woodland on Paris’ eastern edge, among the ancient stones of Chateau de Vincennes. The gallery-decor walls were lined with the framed, wooden landscapes of artistic outsider and American painter Albert York, a clear statement of commonality from the brand’s one-time outsider fashion designer, Jonathan Anderson. The Northern Irish master can always be counted on twisting, bending, and reinventing the wheel in his own fashion. Little wonder Loewe is among the hottest tickets for Paris Fashion Week. ANDERSON’S OPPOSITES ATTRACT Inverting…

Eco-responsible fashion in Paris from McCartney and Serre

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PARIS, March 5 — Two of fashion’s most environmentally conscious designers presented their autumn-winter collections on Monday, the penultimate day of Paris Fashion Week. Vegan Stella McCartney With her father and his Beatles bandmate Ringo Starr watching from the front row, Britain’s Stella McCartney called on the fashion world to “wake up” with a collection that took her sustainable schtick even further. Advertisement McCartney said 90 per cent of the outfits were made from “eco-responsible” materials, and said she had hunted out solutions that could not be told apart from traditional textiles by the naked eye, such as a white…