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Paris Fashion Week 2009
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Paris Fashion Week is here again. The men’s autumn/winter and the women's haute couture collections for spring-summer 2009 were shown from January 22 to 28. Watch our pick of the best shows on FRANCE 24.

  • PARIS FASHION WEEK
    Japanese inspiration for Elie Saab
    Lebanese designer Elie Saab unveiled a Japanese-tinged spring-summer haute couture collection at Paris Fashion Week. The collection's palette was a little more muted than usual but made no concessions to austerity.
  • FINANCIAL CRISIS, LUXURY GOODS
    Stitched-up fashion houses turn on their heels
    Vuitton, Cartier, Chanel and Dior ... the temples of fashion are feeling the economic pinch. To retain sales, some luxury giants have made a beeline for the ultra-rich, while others are dressing down their wares to include more affordable products.
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  • PARIS FASHION WEEK
    Dior shines through winter gloom
    In a world in crisis, escapism is the order of the day, and John Galliano duly obliged with his haute couture spring-summer collection for Christian Dior. The message of modesty has yet to reach the jet-set crowd.
  • PARIS FASHION WEEK
    Jean-Paul Gaultier plays the 80s again
    As a reminder of heady days, Jean-Paul Gaultier's couture show paraded black and white with elegance. The audience burst into applause when iconic 80's model Inès de la Fressange appeared on the catwalk.

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    Colours put a smile upon your face
    On the final day of the men's shows, Paul Smith and Walter Van Beirendonck are banking on bright colours. Van Beirendonck's collection is about total fantasy, whereas Smith aims to make people feel happy.
  • PARIS FASHION WEEK
    Gaultier targets the under-8 set
    On Day 1 of Paris Fashion Week, Jean Paul Gaultier goes multi-generational with his first children’s line. Also: Hugo Boss, Gaspard Yurkievich and Japanese master Yohji Yamamoto.
  • PARIS FASHION WEEK
    Colours put a smile upon your face
    On the final day of the men's shows, Paul Smith and Walter Van Beirendonck are banking on bright colours. Van Beirendonck's collection is about total fantasy, whereas Smith aims to make people feel happy.
  • PARIS FASHION WEEK
    Kenzo inspired by Russia
    On the third day of Paris Fashion Week, Kenzo's stylist Antonio Marras inspired by "great mother land" Russia, Franck Boclet avoids austerity, France's Ungaro redefines male elegance.
  • PARIS FASHION WEEK
    John Galliano mixes past and present
    On the second day of Paris Fashion Week, Rick Owens pays tribute to black; Kris Van Assche's new collection is deliberately haphazard; and John Galliano gives us a surprising lesson in history.
  • FASHION - BRAZIL
    In Brazil, fashion joy is stronger than global crisis
    During Latin America's biggest fashion show, Sao Paulo Fashion Week, thirty-eight houses unveiled their 2009 collections. The 50-billion-dollar industry struck the theme "Brazilianness" this year -- capturing the innate joy of this tropical nation.
  • FASHION
    Dancers' costumes as haute couture
    An average show at Paris's can-can capital, Le Moulin Rouge, features 1,000 costumes on 70 dancers. Glamorous and feminine, cabaret fashion has enjoyed renewed popularity since the film "Moulin Rouge" with Nicole Kidman.
  • PARIS FASHION WEEK
    Gaultier targets the under-8 set
    On Day 1 of Paris Fashion Week, Jean Paul Gaultier goes multi-generational with his first children’s line. Also: Hugo Boss, Gaspard Yurkievich and Japanese master Yohji Yamamoto.
  • FRANCE - FASHION
    Fashion designer Ted Lapidus dies at age 70
    Fashion designer Ted Lapidus, whose career soared in the 1960s and 1970s with the unisex and safari looks, died on Monday of leukemia at the age of 70 in a hospital in Cannes on the French Rivera. Pictured: a Lapidus design.
  • FASHION
    Courrèges, 40 years of fashion
    French fashion designer Mark Courrèges celebrates his 40th birthday with a book which looks back at the roots of a "haute couture" brand which has always been futuristic. Each collection has always been well ahead of its time.
  • FASHION
    Sonia Rykiel, forty years of fashion
    The Decorative Arts museum in Paris was established in the 19th century with the help of industrial sponsors. Today, an exhibition looks back on four decades of works by Sonia Rykiel in a journey through French fashion culture.
  • Fashion
    Madonna models the new Louis Vuitton collection
    US pop diva Madonna is the face of the new Louis Vuitton collection created by American stylist Marc Jacobs, the French fashion house has announced. Jacobs said she was the "vision of the quintessential Parisienne."
  • FASHION
    Public relations is half of fashion
    Communication and public relations are an intrinsic part of fashion. Designers link up with artists and celebs to create a whole culture around their products. Does that make fashion an art form or a mere marketing exercise?
  • FASHION
    Industry and creativity in France's fashion schools
    France's three leading fashion schools have made their point: design is meant to be sublimated by industry, but the key is creativity.
  • FASHION
    Vintage haute couture becomes rising trend
    Recycling is all the rage, which is why fashionistas are rushing to auctions to find vintage pieces by famous brands.
  • FASHION
    Loulou de la Falaise, Yves Saint-Laurent's muse
    Chance turned a young English girl with little interest in fashion into Yves Saint-Laurent's muse. After spending 30 years at his side - "like a marriage" - she has become a jewelry designer herself.
  • HAUTE COUTURE
    The precious lines of Karl Lagerfeld
    While Lacroix draws inspiration from the Renaissance portrait, Georges Chakra's collection is all about women’s love-lives. As for Karl Lagerfeld, his offering is full of lines.
  • FASHION - FUNERAL
    Fashion world, stars bid 'adieu' to Yves Saint Laurent
    At a memorial service attended by stars of the film and fashion worlds, hundreds paid tribute to fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent at a funeral service at Saint-Roch church in Paris.
  • FASHION
    The Yves Saint Laurent legacy
    After French top designer Yves Saint Laurent's death, his style remains and his influence can be seen in the collections of many designers. Elizabeth Tchoungi explores his very rich legacy with her guests.

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