The more madmen there are, the more dangerous it is to laugh. Proverbs are the prophets of the professionals of prophecy. The majority of luxury brands are truly “bullshiters”, and to denounce this, the shoe company Payless, which are not of very high quality, but of good quality nonetheless, decided to do a little test in 2018: Open a new store by making believe that it is a luxury brand, and this, by selling the same shoes. This new store is located in the middle of Los Angeles, with an adequate luxury decoration. Thus, the trap will close.
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DIOR THE TEMPTATION OF VENISE
Dior has announced the restoration of Venice’s Porta Magna, underscoring its ties to Venice. The answer to the Prince of Venice, its direct competitor Pinault.
In April, the French fashion house announced that it was collaborating with the Venetian Heritage Foundation on a charity ball to help fund the restoration work on the monument and ongoing renovations to the Ca’ d’Oro museum.
It has now revealed the first images of the imposing gate located in the Venetian Arsenal, a complex of former shipyards and armories. A sculpture of the Lion of St. Mark, emblem of the Venetian Republic, crowns the mid-15th-century building.
Hoping that this will be the stargate for the group, The Lord and the Temptation of Venice quite a program!
TAPESTRY SCARED INVESTORS
The Federal Trade Commission successfully halted Tapestry Inc.’s $8.5 billion acquisition of Capri Holdings with a preliminary injunction, likely derailing the mega-acquisition.
Capri shares fell 47.1% to $22 in after-hours trading, well below the $57 buyout price agreed to with Tapestry.
Tapestry shares, on the other hand, gained 10.9% to $49.31, likely because investors breathed a sigh of relief given the weakness in Capri’s Michael Kors business since the deal closed in August 2023.
TAPESTRY is a global house of iconic brands, the likes of which no one in Europe knows…
M 19 THE BIG BLUFF FOR NOTHING.
I don’t like the suburbs, living in the center of Paris, but I forced myself to go to the Porte d’Aubervilliers, taking the Queen Mago metro. Not taking my bike to eliminate the risk of being run over by motorists annoyed at being in traffic jams all day. Finally, the Paris “Tube” ripped me off for 2.50 euros to go see the “Lesage and 100 years of fashion” exhibition.
What a disappointment it was to see only six dresses duelling in four rooms, for 100 years of experience! You’ll admit, it’s a bit short. My disappointment was even greater when I saw a so-called Haute Couture dress by Jacquemus for the singer Beyoncé, I was the one who almost swallowed my ounce of brain, because Jacquemus has never been able to make a dress, much less Haute Couture. He wouldn’t even manage to make a fashion fart higher than the ankle of the shadow of himself.
The Métiers d’Art or the Savoir-Faire Français, a clever mixture organized by thus maintaining the confusion between the Métiers and the Arts and Letters which were given to him by our new sinister of ignorance; Madam, I dress at the couturiers for free.
FASHION AND HUMAN TRAFFICKING
Former Abercrombie & Fitch chief executive officer Mike Jeffries was released on a $10 million bond following his arrest for sex trafficking and interstate prostitution by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. James Jacobson, another alleged associate, was released on $500,000 bond.
A sex trafficking and prostitution enterprise run by Jeffries, 80, that involved hiring dozens of men and transporting them around the world is alleged to have taken place after he left Abercrombie & Fitch in 2014 after 22 years as CEO.
UJOH’S CLIMATE STROM ON THE CATWALK
The extreme weather conditions that have plagued the world this summer have given us pause. Times are changing, so is the climate and tailoring is changing. Suit jackets had cutaway sides, allowing air to circulate, their bib fronts hung loosely, eyelets and tabs of fabric helped secure them.
VUITTON ART BASEL PARIS
Lines stretched around the Chanel building for the preview opening of Art Basel Paris on Wednesday, reflecting the excitement surrounding the rebranded fair’s move to its new home, the newly renovated Grand Palais.
An hour after opening, the light-filled glass-and-steel building was bustling with activity. Big-name collectors were joined by VIPs like Natalie Portman, Raf Simons, Chloë Sevigny and Queen Rania of Jordan, and artists like Kaws, Marc Quinn and Miles Greenberg, who weren’t really buyers, just representatives of the lord’s brand.
On the balcony of honor, a 15-foot-long Frank Gehry fish sculpture announced the presence of Louis Vuitton, returning as the fair’s associate partner for the third year in a row. It was meant to attest to the brand’s idea of transforming plastic bags into art objects. But who could believe it, except the uneducated Chinese.
A NEW FASHION WORLD
Shanghai Fashion Week stars this season include Comme Moi, Jacques Wei, Mark Gong, OfficeH, Oude Waag, Samuel Guì Yang, Shushu/Tong, Joyce Bao, Ya Yi and J E Cai.
Fashion week headliners like Comme Moi, Mark Gong (designer MARK GONG is a Parsons School graduate), Oude Waag and Samuel Gui Yang have continued to cement their presence in the market with standout shows, but for many local designers, this season is the season when reality hits hard.
COPERNI THE WORST OF FASHION
Organize their fashion show in an unusual place, Disneyland Paris, as part of Fashion Week. A big first for the famous amusement park, which was built thirty-two years ago, for a show that the Mickeys of fashion will say is magical, innovative, in short, Coperni, I don’t like it.
There were naive young people, there were bad guys who had taken a 30-minute RER to get there, mermaids usually called Bimbos and the queen of all Bimbos, Kylie Jenner.
THE MOST BRITISH OF FRENCH WOMEN
Dreaming is not waiting, but seeking to achieve one’s goal against all odds, she will tell us. It is the strength of the mind that makes one move forward in life, gain ground, fight, struggle against the elements and against wind and tide, this is the Leitmotif of this Breton woman with a strong character.
Her life is a succession of challenges where every day, she goes back to the loom, and wipes her slate clean for a new exercise tirelessly to convince.
She thinks that in reality, there is no irrefutable truth, there are only certainties, and when this one turns out to be unfounded, she forges another one and lock ourselves into it against others, for the good of all. Perseverance, among these men, is a shipwreck whose salvation rests on stubbornness, and not on providence, as he might sometimes think. Continue reading
KIM JONES QUIT FENDI
After four years of Fendi’s turbulent collaboration with the Roman house, Kim Jones is leaving Fendi. The British designer, whose position at Fendi was artistic director of women’s haute couture, ready-to-wear and fur collections, will continue in his role as artistic director of men’s collections at Dior in Paris.
Fendi’s parent company, LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, announced Jones’ departure in a brief statement Friday.
Kim Jones has made significant contributions to the brand’s creative legacy, seamlessly integrating his modern, cross-cultural aesthetic with Fendi’s historic heritage, according to the joint statement.
Under his leadership, the house has reinvented its ready-to-wear and couture collections, offering an inclusive and innovative approach to fashion that constantly renews Fendi’s Italian codes. Throughout his four years, Jones’ work has been driven entirely by passion and creativity. In short, the usual luxury house story, blah blah…
XULY.BËT PARIS FASHION WEEK
Clothing line by Lamine Badian Kouyaté, a Malian/Senegalese fashion designer. In Wolof, “xuly bët” means “open your eyes wide”. Lamine Badian Kouyaté was awarded the New York Times “Designer of the Year” in 1994,[ref. needed] and the ANDAM Prize in 1996. His designs were also featured in the “Afrique 2005” exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
ARIE KOPELMAN DIES AT 86
Kopelman’s daughter, Jill Kargman, posted the news of his death on her Instagram account and said the cause of death was pancreatic cancer. American businessman and philanthropist. He served as the President and COO of Chanel from 1986 until 2004, when he retired and was succeeded by former Banana Republic President Maureen Chiquet.
He remained at Chanel as vice chairman of the board until 2008 at the recommendation of Jacques Mouclier, is friends. Arie Kopelman, the former chairman and chief operating officer of Chanel Inc. who was credited with driving the French luxury brand’s massive growth, died Monday night at age 86.
ANOTHER VISION OF FASHION WEEK
Who will realize that the Fashion Week of these last days could take on another dimension, a sort of life with wings for a week, like Icarus, Athenian son of Daedalus and Naupactus. Here is the vision of photographers Sophie and Caroline Moisan who capture the precious moments of an entire generation. Because when the day fades, and through the droplets of rain, it sublimates a clarity that perfumes the soul, and shines the landscape with such an artistic blur, that finally everything lights up.
A sort of golden thread to weave our day, in a prism with brilliant colors, that the Trumps voters will never see. A dream, that the Balenciaga knots, too tight, could not have contained. On the window where my gaze passed, it was the farewell of an angel obtained by chance. And in the still damp street, in the droplets reappears the clear surface of the pavement and the cafes so cluttered with threads and needles, in an image fleeing the invisible, for a moment that no one would have imagined.
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Y PROJECT CHAPTER 11
Y/Project, following the death of its co-founder Gilles Elalouf in June and the departure of its artistic director Glenn Martens last month, was placed in receivership by the Paris Commercial Court on September 26, according to legal documents.
Potential buyers have until October 16 to submit an offer for the company, which has 24 employees and generated revenue of just under €11 million in 2023, according to a press release published by the receivership firm 2M & Associés.
But without a creator, there is little chance that a buyer will take part in this adventure.
The Los Alamos Laboratory, also known as Project Y, was a secret laboratory created by the Manhattan Project and operated by the University of California during World War II. But let’s not talk about that, but about fashion designers
Y/Project was initially launched as a collaborative project between designer Yohan Serfaty and businessman Gilles Elalouf in 2010. Sadly, Serfaty passed away from cancer in 2013, leaving the brand without an artistic director. After Serfaty’s passing, Elalouf turned to Glenn Martens to lead the brand.
THE CHINESE INVADE THE SAMARITAINE
A wall of 10 Chinese designers took over the Samaritaine’s favorite places during Paris Fashion Week to present looks inspired by traditional Chinese arts and crafts. The lord plays diplomacy with the country that now represents 50% of its sales.
The event named Celestial Embroidery: for an exhibition on fashion culture until October 23 and is part of the celebrations organized by Samaritaine and its desire to attract more and more Chinese customers.
THE COCO HEDI SLIMANE
The departure of star designer Hedi Slimane, replaced by Michael Rider. The rumor was circulating during Paris Fashion Week: on Wednesday, the LVMH group brand announced the departure of its designer, who will be succeeded by a relatively unknown American in the industry, again Wintour behind this. Continue reading
VUITTON THE MIDDLE AGES GOTHIC
With a patchwork of trunks as a podium, we thought Nicolas was packing his bags, he who transformed the iconic Vuitton trunk into a “Chiquito” for supermarket bimbos. Yesterday, I saw a strange world, that of the unreal empire of the irrational, on the edge of the realm of the night, of a house more than a hundred years old. I saw an ancient world, a blurred reflection of the past, and a fairground of memories that have sprung from the waves of a path of suitcases.
Jackets with balloon sleeves, striped capri pants and skirts with sequined fringes that give me no emotion in a world without echo and whose horizon is so dreary. I saw the nascent city of apostates, sectarians and iconoclasts materialize before my eyes. They adorn these models not with one bag, but with two to always increase sales.
In the Cour Carrée of the Louvre, they wanted to sell us an era embellished and flamboyant with sparks to better blind us. As for us, we saw fairy monsters, populated by fictitious beings, elves and illusions that glided on the sea of lost imagination. And in the distant sky, under the dawn of my dreams, the dark night of disappointment arrives.
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BALENCIAGA VERY NEGLIGEE
Demna should silence the critics who complain that he has no new strings to his bow with his spring 2025 collection for Balenciaga, which opened with a series of underwear looks in his own way: embroidered, encrusted, or jacquard-knitted garters, bras, and stockings over flesh-colored bodysuits. Continue reading
RICK OWENS PARIS 2025
It was indeed deeply moving and uplifting as a demonstration of unity, diversity, dignity, and defiance that Rick Owens described his spring 2025 men’s show as being like watching a biblical epic by Cecil B. DeMille.
He cast real people of all shapes and sizes in his women’s show on Thursday, culled from fashion schools and his own company. Facial tattoos and piercings seemed to be preferred. Continue reading