BRITANY WOMEN AT GIVENCHY

Valérie Lebérichel has been appointed global vice president of communication at Givenchy. As of April 4, she will assume the duties previously held by Youssef Marquis, who moved to Louis Vuitton as fashion communication director last January.

Native from the city of Dinan in BrItany France, to swell the long list of BrItany women of Rance Valley as Catherine Le Yaouanc, CEO of the Franco-British Chamber of commerce in Paris and Anne-Marie Idriac former Minister of transport, and many others.

Lebérichel joins Givenchy from the Prada Group, where she was worldwide communication Director for Miu Miu since 2013. She also assumed the role of head of communications for Prada France in 2019.

At Givenchy, she reports to Renaud de Lesquen, president and CEO, who has lauded Lebérichel as a widely respected fashion professional and a natural fit for overseeing the many aspects of communication during this exciting period of development at the house. Continue reading

BIG BEN DIGITAL

The most famous clock of the world placed on Big Ben is going to be changed to become a digital clock. Indeed the French luxury group LVMH has just bought the right to put instead its new digital watch for  brand TAG.

It seems that many complaints have been registered in London. But the French group will not stop there because it also plans to put a digital clock at night on the Effel Tower which will be visible from the Samaritaine. French luxury is exported everywhere and especially in historical monuments, thus claiming the phrase of Mr. Arnault to Steve Jobs : “I sell the history of France while you, you sell technology of the moment”.

Where will the marketing of the luxury group stop one day, will they eventually be as powerful as a state? To be continued. At the time when the largest watchmaking exhibition opens on April 1st, the symbol is strong but so is the issue for the French group in front of the Richemont group.
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FAITH CONNEXION 2022

Founded in Paris in 2000, purchased by new owners in 2014, and reacquired in 2020; Faith Connexion is a global fashion brand with French flair: a collective of designers and artists focused on a new translation of fashion for affluent millennials, offering a 360° closet that embodies chic rock, edgy glamour and street couture in a modern mix & match mentality

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PARIS FASHION SELF-SATISFACTION

The online platform for the Paris Fashion Week that ended on March 8, showcasing womenswear collections for fall 2022, registered a 90 percent increase in unique visitors to 456,000; a 72 percent gain in page views to 1.4 million, and a 97 percent jump in media impact value to $260 million, according to data released by the Fédération de la Haute Couture et de la Mode.

But can we believe people who don’t even know how to buy their dot com and who have had their name stolen three times?

Anyway, I remember when give an advice on the management of the photos 20 years ago,  I said to the president, if you not manage this problem by yourself he would be nanage by others. The French fashion after this advice will only make a website ten years later.

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JITROIS LEATHER SEDUCTION

Jean Claude Jitrois is the iconic leather French designer brand! But it is not dead!!! Not at all I met him in Paris he seems to be 30 years old. That why is fashion persists over time. It is about seduction, evening, dance and movement clothes that reveal, emphasize and liberate the bodies.

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WATANABE 2022 TOKYO

Inspired by “Plight (The Spiralling of Winter Ghosts),” a collaborative album created by David Sylvian and Holger Czukay in the 1980s. Designers cut up motorcycle jackets, bomber jackets, and checked wool jackets into pieces of fabric and individual elements and spliced them back together to create new garments that were both totally different from and recognizable as the originals.

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MALION VINTAGE 2022

The Tokyo Fashion Week newcomer Malion Vintage uses vintage clothing as fabrics, cutting pieces up and repurposing them into new, unique pieces that speak to both the past and the present. Eriko Ishida and Aki Shimizu spliced fabrics with similar colors and textures in their first runway show.

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THE WHITE GLOW OF ANGELS

Fearsome grace, barely veiling the radiance of an angel! Abundance of outfits, which makes the passion of the profession vibrate. Like a silk thread that splits the moment, Dgena takes us between the shadow of the Black Widow and the sun of Josué, his Afro-European model Rapper of his state.
I look at the fashion which whispers the pure air of the iceberg which detaches itself from the Parisian streets where all the aroma of the sublime accumulates.
Strongly anchored in our planet, black for the time, and white to celebrate the purity, the designer injected the energy of the desert horizons of the cold by reworking the codes of ice and a quilting of the suburban grids, I felt the world moving, the chorus of spring days frozen for a moment.
The interplay of Yin and Yang, the necessary effect of principle and prevailing tendency, the ultimate harmony.
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DIOR TO BE A MUSEUM

After being appointed as the brand’s CEO in February 2018, Pietro Beccari undertook an ambitious project: renovating its Avenue Montaigne flagship store. This means Dior customers can eat, sleep, dress and play in this new store, which is a “game changer.”

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CHINA LUXURY SLOWDOWN

Shenzhen, Shanghai, and Jilin and Hebei provinces, which are manufacturing powerhouses, logged thousands of cases over the weekend.
The government has ordered the city of Shenzhen, which is home to top Chinese companies like Tencent and China Resources, into lockdown.  A week of home confinement is expected for the city’s 17.5 million residents, who can expect to undergo three tests in the coming days. . Factories, local transport and shopping malls, except for essential services, have all been shut down.
It’s estimated that Shenzhen attracted more luxury brands than any other Chinese city during the pandemic since the border with Hong Kong remained shut, forcing its high net worth citizens to shop locally. Some 27 brands including Hermès, Chanel and Cartier opened stores there last year.

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MIU MIU 2022

One of the most defining runway looks of spring 2022 was Miu Miu’s midriff-baring miniskirt and super-crop top in a postage stamp-sized style.

The Aughts throwback became a viral hit, generating its own Instagram account, and becoming as recognizable to the public as the stars who wore it. Adding a touch of neo-preppy chic to girlishness, this fall’s look takes on a school-uniform flavor, with leather-clad misfits thrown in to keep things interesting.

Swedish artists Nathalie Djurberg and Hans Berg created beach chairs made of canvas for the show. What was on the runway also had a sense of transgression, with scandalously short skirts, shirts and the briefest of HotPants for those who do crunches, not lunches.

ETRO GLOBAL EXPENSION

Since July, Etro, controlled by the giant private equity firm L Catterton, has named Iacopo Martini as its chief financial officer. The position had been vacant since last June and was previously held by Michele Manzari. Company famous for its signature paisley motif and bold travel-inspired patterns.

They will report to Etro’s chief executive officer Fabrizio Cardinali, who, according to reports, took on the role of spearheading its global brand expansion in November 2021.

Martini graduated from Rome’s Luiss Guido Carli university and began his career at Procter & Gamble in 1995. He was the consumer goods giant’s CFO for its Italian subsidiary until he was promoted.  Most recently, he was CFO of the beauty company Kiko Milano.

CHANEL A TWEED FOR A TWEET

Chanel celebrates tweed throughout the event, from the fabric covering the walls, the floor, and the seats, to Virginie Viard’s tweed jacket in the battle of the tweed jackets.

A woman wearing a pink tweed jacket paired her leggings fastened with bows and rhinestone-covered shoes with a soft white dog in the peoples.

Viard’s color palette is influenced by images of the River Tweed in Scotland shot by Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin.

She used the full gamut of shades, from psychedelic pinks, purples and greens, to earthy tones fit for country walks at Balmoral Castle.

There’s an English spirit running through the collection, from ‘Spencer’ who drew on images of Coco Chanel wearing the duke’s oversize tweed jackets. Continue reading

DGENA THE BLACK WIDOW OF A THOUSAND RIVERS

This morning, the painless day drags, and I move towards the Faubourg du Temple, to measure the dichotomy between the city of Kiev that I left only 25 hours ago, and the cries of aficionados when Nabilla appears. Dgena, as for her, draws her seam in the veil of the clairvoyance and the paradox of this profession. Outside among the smoke and talent, while the others are well engulfed in a temple that has only the name, I see a figure that advances in scouting and jumps the barrier of the worries of youth, the day is beautiful, and yet a black widow appears of only 20 years.

 

The young girls, lined up like birds who have been entrusted with grace in all its splendor, walk towards me. I admire the hands that fill the fabric and the deft fingers that shape each collection, transforming old rolls, into the undeniable flower of sublime. It was yesterday in front of the Valentino show, the beauty made its majestic bed.

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