There’s no denying Elly Azizian, who illustrates under the moniker Fashion Strokes, has an impressive client list: Van Cleef & Arpels, Oscar de la Renta, Valentino and Sotheby’s to name a few. Nevertheless it is quite a rarity in modern times to be flown to Paris to sketch inside the elite environment of haute couture where the one-off handmade...
17 Aug 2022
After two seasons of digital haute couture fashion films, Christian Dior returned to Paris Haute Couture Week with a physical catwalk showcase for its autumn/winter 2021 collection. In the show notes, Dior’s creative director, Maria Grazia Chiuri, said that the catwalk showcase with a large audience was her way of “reclaiming the values of haute...
6 Jul 2021
Something rather significant was missing from the Paris haute couture shows which wrapped up on Wednesday night -- fur. Beyond the guest appearance of American designer Ralph Rucci, there was none of the luxuriantly sensual mink, fox or sable that for decades defined the autumn winter collections of the elite Paris shows. More significant still,...
4 Jul 2019
French fashion designer Jean Paul Gaultier said Wednesday he could go back to using fur if he could be sure it was entirely traceable. The flamboyant creator announced in November he was renouncing fur, a move hailed as a major victory by animal rights groups like PETA who have previously tried to disrupt one of his shows and occupied his Paris...
Ziad Nakad | Haute Couture Spring Summer 2019. Source: FF Channel, YouTube.
23 Jan 2019
Christian Dior | Haute Couture Spring Summer 2019 by Maria Grazia Chiuri Source: FF Channel, YouTube.
French fashion icon Jean-Paul Gaultier opened up a new front in the battle over bras Wednesday with "Free the nipple" slogans in his Paris haute couture show. The flamboyant designer showed his support for a Florida teenager who was made to cover her nipples in bandages at her high school for not wearing a bra under her sweatshirt. Lizzy...
5 Jul 2018
Legendary designer and bibliophile Karl Lagerfeld made a pitch for immortality Tuesday by setting his Chanel Paris haute couture show in front of the Academie Francaise. The venerable institution, whose members are knowns as "the immortals", was the centrepiece of a spectacular set featuring the banks of the Seine that Lagerfeld had built inside...
3 Jul 2018
With the final day of Paris Haute Couture Fashion Week at our doorstep, FashionUnited takes a moment to reflect on some of the stand out designs and must-see shows of the week in celebration of courtiers at their finest. Atelier Versace The couture division of Italian fashion house Versace was first up to show its creations for Spring/Summer...
28 Jan 2016
