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Byline: by MILES SOCHA Fendi Puts Focus on Men's Wear PARIS - Fendi continues to rev up its men's wear business, planting a diminutive, yet eye-catching boutique in the Marais, [...]

Byline: - MILES SOCHA Four-Alarm Tommy With his arresting green hair and famous girlfriend, Richard Hilfiger made quite an entrance at the cocktail Tuesday night to fete his father Tommy [...]

FASHION SCOOPS IN THE PINK: Karl Lagerfeld has a good excuse for skipping the mega retrospective about his fashions opening to the public on Saturday in Bonn, Germany: The in-demand [...]

FASHION SCOOPS CALIFORNIA, HERE WE COME: Given his taste for groovy modernist architecture, Nicolas Ghesquiére 's destination for Louis Vuitton's resort show is a sweet spot: Palm Springs, Calif. The [...]

Byline: MILES SOCHA Chanel's Global Goal: Standardized Pricing PARIS - Positioning its brand for the future in an increasingly flat and digital world - and one racked by currency fluctuations [...]

Byline: JOELLE DIDERICH AND MILES SOCHA WITH CONTRIBUTIONS FROM PAULINA SZMYDKE AND MARCY MEDINA Fashion Is a Zoo: 'Zoolander 2' Set PARIS - Blue Steel is back. Ben Stiller and [...]

Byline: KARI HAMANAKA and MILES SOCHA Apple Watch Lines Up Fashion Retail World SAN FRANCISCO - The Apple Watch is here at last - and the fashion retail world is [...]

FASHION SCOOPS BLONDE SALADE: Kim Kardashian 's first Paris Fashion Week appearance did not go unnoticed at the Balmain show on Thursday, visible as she was with her newly blonde [...]

Byline: by MILES SOCHA Givenchy Opens Men's Flagship The Marais district is home to the 5,000-square-foot Paris store. PARIS - Riccardo Tisci can add lead architect to his list of [...]

Byline: MILES SOCHA Chanel Stages 'Act 1' Pre-Fall for Buyers PARIS - Only 10 days after the couture, Chanel staged another fashion show here Friday - although strictly for buyers. [...]

Byline: MILES SOCHA WITH CONTRIBUTIONS FROM ROSEMARY FEITELBERG Vuitton Execs Put Pre-Fall in Perspective PARIS - Nicolas Ghesquiére is heading to Los Angeles this week for a Louis Vuitton double-header. [...]

FASHION SCOOPS CARTOON WORLD: Holding a fluffy white cat can soften a severe fashion look. So figures French cartoonist Tiffany Cooper , invited by Karl Lagerfeld to create a capsule [...]

Vive Le Smoking LONG OR SHORT, WITH LAPELS OR WITHOUT, AND TRANSFORMED INTO JUMPSUITS AND DRESSES, HEAD-TURNING, TUXEDO-INSPIRED LOOKS EMERGED AS A SOPHISTICATED EVENING OPTION ON SPRING RUNWAYS. Zuhair Murad: [...]

FASHION SCOOPS HAPPY HEARTS: Chris Uphues ' cheerful, childlike graffiti art - particularly his colorful, 'happy hearts' with eyes - can be seen all over the streets of Brooklyn, where [...]

FASHION SCOOPS YAHOO ALIBABA MOVE: Yahoo Inc. plans to spin off its holdings in Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba in a tax-free deal that would close in the fourth quarter. The [...]

FASHION SCOOPS HURTS SO GOUDE: While it has yet to appoint a new creative director, Schiaparelli has a surprise up its shocking pink sleeve: Jean-Paul Goude has designed the set [...]

Byline: MILES SOCHA Bukey and Uemura Collaborate PARIS - Lips and eyes are the prime focus of many beauty looks - and signature motifs of Paris-based jewelry and accessories designer [...]

MEMO PAD ALL MEN: The New York Times wants a bigger piece of the fashion advertising pie: The paper is launching a new print section devoted to men's fashion and [...]

FASHION SCOOPS FRIENDS IN DEED: John Galliano 's debut at Maison Martin Margiela today is to be witnessed by a number of his famous peers. According to sources, Lanvin's Alber [...]

Pre-Fall 2015 Paco Rabanne: Add Julien Dossena's name to the list of designers who've opted to rework and refine fruitful ideas from past collections. His first pre-fall effort since joining [...]

True Brit THE SEVENTIES - AND OTHER RETRO THEMES - HAVE RUN RIOT OVER THE LONDON MEN'S COLLECTIONS, ALONGSIDE ENGLISH HERITAGE FABRICS AND PERFORMANCE TOUCHES. Alexander McQueen: As the world [...]

FASHION SCOOPS IN THE PINK: Schiaparelli's show will go on, despite the surprise exit last November of creative director Marco Zanini. The nascent couture house has secured time slots for [...]

Byline: MILES SOCHA WITH CONTRIBUTIONS FROM SAMANTHA CONTI, LONDON Galliano's Margiela Set for London PARIS - London is set to steal some of Paris' couture thunder. John Galliano said on [...]

Byline: MILES SOCHA Schloss Chanel SALZBURG, Austria - Karl Lagerfeld flicked through the camera roll on his iPhone 6 and flashed a picture only recently unearthed: The German designer as [...]

Byline: - MILES SOCHA Crystal Clear Long before television, the Internet and megastores, universal expositions were the chief vehicle to spread the word about luxury goods. That's the focus of [...]

FASHION SCOOPS GOING FOR BAROQUE: Come Dec. 2, the hills will be alive with...Chanel jackets. Karl Lagerfeld is to parade his next Métiers d'art collection for Chanel at the Schloss [...]

Byline: MILES SOCHA With New Management, LVMH Plots DKI Revamp PARIS - Foreshadowing a new strategy and brand architecture at Donna Karan International, parent LVMH Moét Hennessy Louis Vuitton has [...]

MEMO PAD FIT TO PRINT: Michael Burke , chairman and chief executive of Louis Vuitton, has taken on a new title: publisher. In October, the French leather-goods giant will begin [...]

MEMO PAD OMEN OR GLITCH?: Yahoo's new Style channel headed by Joe Zee launched last week and set out to make a big splash during New York Fashion Week, which [...]

Byline: MILES SOCHA Ghesquiére's Vuitton Pop-Up PARIS - Nicolas Ghesquiére, who created arty, otherworldly boutiques during his Balenciaga years, has conceived a pop-up space here to showcase his first Louis [...]

Byline: - MILES SOCHA A Cat's Meow of a Makeup Collection PARIS - The white cat with the arresting blue eyes - and 40,000 Twitter followers - describes her namesake [...]

FASHION SCOOPS THREE COLORS BLUE: It was a festival of chiseled jaws at the Louis Vuitton men's show in Paris on Thursday, which drew fashion followers ranging from Victor Cruz [...]

Byline: MILES SOCHA Tiger Set for London Show PARIS - Tiger of Sweden is ready to roar, making its debut on a London runway on Tuesday and pushing into new [...]

MEMO PAD IN SESSION: John Galliano donned a three-piece navy suit and a tie for his latest confessional: a Q&A with renowned French psychiatrist Boris Cyrulnik in French newsweekly Le [...]

FASHION SCOOPS FRENCH ACCENT: Givenchy is to hold its resort presentation and showroom in Paris later this month instead of New York. The shift comes as the fast-growing French fashion [...]

LV's Designer Team Of Six 'Iconoclasts' PARIS - Karl Lagerfeld, Frank Gehry and Cindy Sherman are applying their creativity to a new and surprising canvas - Louis Vuitton's famous brown [...]

FASHION SCOOPS JUSTIN DONS BARRETT: Justin Timberlake is wearing a range of Neil Barrett custom-made looks during the second part of his 'The 20/20 Experience World Tour,' beginning with his [...]

Fashion Oasis DUBAI - When Karl Lagerfeld decided to unveil Chanel's cruise 2015 collection in Dubai, home to the world's tallest skyscraper, 'it couldn't be some basic show in a [...]

FASHION SCOOPS THREE'S COMPANY: Word has it Nicolas Ghesquiére 's first fashion campaign for Louis Vuitton will break the mold as he has tapped not one, but three leading photographers. [...]

Vuitton to Show Cruise Line in Monaco PARIS - So much for the (relatively) low-key show venue. Nicolas Ghesquiére, whose debut for Louis Vuitton in March took place in a [...]

FASHION SCOOPS A VERY MERRY MOTHER'S DAY: The momentum continues to build for Born Free, the project that seeks to end mother-to-child HIV transmission in Africa. On May 11 - [...]

Schiaparelli to Sell by Appointment Only PARIS - Signaling a hyper-exclusive business strategy, Schiaparelli is to sell its first collection of high-end ready-to-wear exclusively at a by-appointment boutique in Paris [...]

FASHION SCOOPS OSCAR HEADS SOUTH: Oscar de la Renta gave Miami an early Valentine's Day present. Three days after showing his fall collection in New York, the determined designer turned [...]

FASHION SCOOPS NEW RECRUIT: Word has it Paco Rabanne, in the midst of rebooting its fashion department, has tapped a leather goods executive from Céline. According to market sources, Anouck [...]

RALPH LAUREN A Night In Paris By MILES SOCHA PARIS What does Ralph Lauren have in common with John Singer Sargent, Edgar Degas and Henri Matisse? Besides an artistic bent, [...]

The homepage for the Karl Lagerfeld eyewear video game. Karl Invites You to Steal His Shades By MILES SOCHA PARIS Karl Lagerfeld is back in a video game this time, [...]

PPR Formally Becomes Kering By MILES SOCHA PARIS François-Henri Pinault moved several steps closer to the transformation of his family-controlled group on Tuesday, officially changing its name, spinning off one [...]

LVMH Offers Visitors a Glance Inside Brands MILES SOCHA PARIS The way to the heart of a luxury lover is also through the stomach. Antoine Arnault hosted a lunch at [...]

Byline: Miles Socha Supply Chain Management Buying up suppliers of luxe materials and artisan ateliers is a hot strategy among high-end firms. PARIS A crocodile handbag from a top luxury [...]

Byline: MILES SOCHA Dior Homme to Show in China PARIS Later this month, Dior Homme is to stage its first runway show in China, a vital and vibrant market that [...]