Telfar Spring 2027 Was A Bait & Switch On Paris Fashion Week

It’s been seven years since Telfar designer Telfar Clemens showed his eponymous label on the Paris Fashion Week calendar, and on the biannual event’s final night in France, he returned to the City of Lights — sort of. Guests, including creative director and cultural advocate Edward Buchanan, were ushered into the Dannou Theatre — a historic…

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The Fashion of Irving Penn

Walk­ing into the Irv­ing Penn exhi­bi­tion at the Mai­son Européenne de la Pho­togra­phie (MEP), you might won­der how much dif­fer­ence there real­ly is between a ret­ro­spec­tive and a séance. Both depend on acts of look­ing backwards—on try­ing to make the absent present again. In this case, pho­tographs lie at the cen­tre: over one hun­dred images…

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Paris Women’s Fashion Week: Key trends

Paris Women’s Fashion Week wrapped up on Tuesday after nine days of shows and celebrity sightings. AFP looks at some of the trends that will influence women’s wardrobes for the Spring-Summer season next year. Fashion in kit form “The emergence of separates has become a key theme of this season, as we took our signature…

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Pregaming The Zimmermann Show With Zoey Deutch

Day 28 of Fashion Month brought about the end of many people’s trips with the Chanel show in the evening, but before then, there was the not-to-be-missed Zimmermann runway which brought out one of our favorites, Zoey Deutch. The actor is familiar with Paris, having filmed her turn in Nouvelle Vague as a young Jean…

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Tabis are so over – what the mainstreaming of the split-toe shoe says about how fashion loses meaning

The tabi shoe, a divisive style which features a cloven hoof-like split, has its origins in 15th-century Japan. In 1988, fashion designer Martin Margiela reimagined the split-toe silhouette for a high-fashion boot for his brand’s inaugural runway collection. While the style became synonymous with Margiela, because of its historic origins, it could not be legally…

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