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Pretty dresses are no longer just for women

Why should women get to wear all the pretty dresses? Why can't men also flounce about in the feathers, lace or fine embroidery if they fancy? These are the questions being posed by the daring young Spanish label, Palomo Spain, whose flamboyant show kicked off the Paris men's fashion week late Tuesday. Designer Alejandro Gomez Palomo told AFP he...

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Model harassment claims cloud Paris men's fashion week

Paris men's fashion week starts late Tuesday with the industry shaken by claims that two star photographers sexually harassed male models. Peru-born Mario Testino, a favourite of the British royal family, and American Bruce Weber both denied the accusations made against them by a string of models and assistants in the New York Times. But the...

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Chambre Synicale announces additions to Paris Men's Fashion Week

While dates and times are still being figured out, the Fédération de la Haute Couture et de la Mode has released the latest additions to the calendar for Paris Men's Fashion Week. Earlier FashionUnited announced : that Vetements would be added to the calendar, but numerous more additions have been made. France’s Nïuku, Germany’s GmbH and Britain...

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Cédric Charlier X Fruit of the Loom

Belgian designer Cédric Charlier has collaborated with the prominent American brand Fruit of the Loom creating a capsule collection of four unisex t-shirts. Charlier debuted the collection during his Spring presentation at Paris Men’s Fashion Week on 21st June. The collaborative collection was designed to complement Charlier’s SS18 Menswear &...

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Overview: This was Paris Men's Fashion Week AW17

London - Paris Men’s Fashion Week Autumn/Winter 2017-2018 came to a smashing end following a week of sharp tailored collections, street-style and unexpected collaborations. FashionUnited has rounded up some of the show’s highlights and highpoints below. Thom Browne On the closing eve of Paris Men’s Fashion Week, New-York based fashion label Thom...

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The Five Top Trends at Paris Men's Fashion Week

With Paris men's fashion week coming to an end Sunday night, we pick out five of the big trends in the autumn-winter collections: The young ones Youth may be wasted on the young, as Oscar Wilde once quipped, but style isn't, insisted the Paris shows, which went all-out to capture the hearts of millennials. Rarely have the catwalks been so...

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Paris Men's Fashion Week embraces nature and country-style

Some of the coolest names in street fashion went into the woods in their Paris menswear shows Thursday, and their millennial customers are in for a big surprise. Throw off your gritty urban rat race uniforms, they pleaded, and embrace nature and your inner country bumpkin. Off-White designer Virgil Abloh -- Kanye West's fashion guru no less --...

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Headscarves & facemasks hit the catwalk at Paris Men's Fashion Week

It's time to raid granny's wardrobe. The headscarf knotted under the chin -- last seen worn over curlers by harassed housewives in the 1970s -- is back on the Paris catwalk. And the good news this time is that men can wear versions of them too. Japanese designer Hiromichi Ochiai of Facetasm dared to resurrect the most humdrum of domestic of...

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Paul Smith to merge women’s and men’s shows next January

London - Although Paul Smith previously announced plans to restructure its business and streamline its collections coed fashions shows were not in the planning. Until now that is. The UK fashion label, named after its founder Sir Paul Smith, is set to host its debut combined fashion show for its womenswear and menswear Autum/Winter 2017...

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Out of Africa and onto the catwalks at PFW

Louis Vuitton staged a punkish African safari-themed Paris menswear show Wednesday in fittingly stifling heat. With model Kate Moss and footballer David Beckham melting in the front row, the fashion house that made its name from its steamer trunks in an age of more refined travel, gave the aristocratic "Out of Africa" look a rakishly punk twist....

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Unfitted garments ruled the runways at Valentino, Balenciaga, and Lemaire

For the past several seasons, Men's Fashion Weeks have been dominated by either one of two things, incredibly well tailored garments or relaxed fitting athleisure wear. Yesterday, as Paris Men's Fashion week kicked off, a new trend has been sparked in the world of men's wear: the unfitted, oversized garments. Balenciaga was one of the first...

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'Little England' takes over catwalks in Paris ahead of the EU referendum

It may already be too late...But as Britain prepares to vote on whether to leave the EU, the Little England look has suddenly become fashionable. Cricket jumpers, brogues, boating blazers and even neo-Morris men popped up on the Paris catwalk Wednesday. Nor is fashion's new-found anglophilia confined to the upper classes. Sweatpants, parkas,...