Balmain CEO Jean-Jacques Guével leaves office after four years. Previously CEO of Zadig & Voltaire, Guével joined Balmain in February 2020, just before the coronavirus pandemic turned the world upside down.
The French fashion house revealed his departure in a brief statement Monday, noting that “under his tenure, the company has experienced significant growth and evolution.” But who will believe that!
“Balmain is one of the oldest luxury houses in Paris, with a unique and rich heritage”, But except The chief designer.
Balmain chairman Rachid Mohamed Rachid, who is also CEO of Balmain’s parent company Mayhoola, thanked Guével with certainly a big check. Continue reading

Louis Vuitton will make Annie Leibovitz’s formal uniform., Nicolas Ghesquière, artistic director of women’s fashion at Louis Vuitton, will make Annie Leibovitz’s induction uniform at the prestigious Académie des Beaux-Arts, whose lifetime members are known in France as Immortels.
Revo CEO Robinson was born and raised a few blocks north of Greenwich Village, and spent a lot of time in his youth shopping and dining in SoHo. And for Cliff Robinson, opening a flagship store in New York’s SoHo neighborhood is like coming home.
Emma Stone, best actress for her work in “Poor Things, wore a gown by Louis Vuitton.America Ferrera, nominated as Best Supporting Actress for her work in “Barbie,” wore Versace.

There are sometimes internal struggles in the creator competition that are beneficial to certain groups. The arrival of Pharrell Williams at Vuitton Homme has probably propelled the creator of Louis Vuitton Femme out of his lethargy. It was yesterday at the carrousel, in the square courtyard of the Louvres, which hosted the tents, as in the past, by the very late great Jacques, whom the couturiers had left little by little to present elsewhere, thinking that the center of Paris was not not relevant.

Iris Apfel, super eccentric New York fashion icon, Instagram star and high priestess before the eternal, died Friday at the age of 102. With 3 million followers on Instagram, the centenarian still attended the presentations of great fashion designers, in a wheelchair. Born in Queens, Queen Iris Apfel had studied art history, making her the cultured aging bimbo extremely rare in the profession.

The “Transparences” exhibition currently taking place at the Yves Saint Laurent Museum in Paris is recording record attendance, a funny coincidence. On Tuesday evening, Anthony Vaccarello, constructed almost his entire fall collection with flimsy silk hosiery fabrics, which he said were a nightmare to produce.








Paris is living in the Roaring Twenties, when Gaston Doumergue inaugurates Boulevard Haussmann with silver-gilt scissors; he cuts the symbolic ribbon criticized by some. At the time, Joséphine Baker had just performed at the Folies Bergères, with the revue Nègre. In the heart of the theater district, Maison Burma opens its doors and signs a style, in line with the new modern, emancipated and bustling woman.
