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Haute Couture Collections Spring-Summer 2012
25/01/2012 - HAUTE COUTURE

Haute Couture Collections Spring-Summer 2012

Day Two of Paris Haute Couture Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2012.
Haute Couture Collections Spring-Summer 2012
24/01/2012 - HAUTE COUTURE

Haute Couture Collections Spring-Summer 2012

Day One of Paris Haute Couture Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2012.
Mad for menswear
20/01/2012 - CULTURE

Mad for menswear

We're giving you the lowdown on the menswear shown at Milan Fashion Week where after-dark dressing, velvet and gilded glamour were key trends. Back in Paris, Japanese designers conquered the runway. Then we head to the Geneva watch fair where the most exciting looks included a 'poetic' watch and a diamond encrusted panther. Finally, which ten-year-old is set to be the new face of Versace?
Paris Fashion Week favourites and flops
07/10/2011 - CULTURE

Paris Fashion Week favourites and flops

As Paris Fashion Week draws to a close, we round up the best and worst of this year's event. Karl Lagerfeld turned the Chanel show into a giant aquarium, Jean-Paul Gaultier reinvented classic pieces with a street twist, and Sarah Burton for McQueen was theatrical with a feminine touch. But who will be crowned winner? Plus, tune in to find out who was the undisputed "flop" of Fashion Week.
Graphic novels and high fashion
06/10/2011 - CULTURE

Graphic novels and high fashion

The contemporary artist with celebrity fans, Kent Williams, is in the studio as an exhibition devoted to his graphic novel art opens in the French capital. Next, we meet an icon of the fashion world who’s turned his hand to photography. Karl Lagerfeld tells us why he’s not content simply designing clothes for Chanel as he presents a selection of his photographic work at Paris’ Photo Show.
Modern malaise in 'The Unnamed'
05/10/2011 - CULTURE

Modern malaise in 'The Unnamed'

If you have the perfect wife, job and home, why would you walk out on it all? That’s the premise of the latest novel by today’s guest. Joshua Ferris is in the studio to tell us why he ruined his lead character’s life in "The Unnamed". Also on the show, current Hollywood darling Ryan Gosling drives the critics wild with his latest movie, the very noir "Drive".
2012 presidential election: is there an alternative to Sarkozy?
04/10/2011 - THE WEEK IN FRANCE

2012 presidential election: is there an alternative to Sarkozy?

The French president's popularity ratings are at an all time low. Some have even started to ask if Alain Juppé, the foreign minister, could be a viable alternative. Also, it has emerged that one of France’s top policemen may have been fraternising with the very crooks and Mafiosi he was supposed to have been investigating. Finally, a French explorer tells his story of solitude after spending six months in silence in Serbia.
A novel 'dictated by daemons'
03/10/2011 - CULTURE

A novel 'dictated by daemons'

Meet the author who says his work is dictated to him by daemons. Madison Smartt Bell is in the studio to tell us why the damaged narrator of his latest novel "The Color of Night" revels in violence. But first, we try to unpick the web of intrigue surrounding a new London play supposedly written by the great Victorian wit, Oscar Wilde.
The Voca People take Paris by storm
01/10/2011 - CULTURE

The Voca People take Paris by storm

There’s an alien invasion on the show today, courtesy of the extraordinary accappella show "The Voca People", a hit with audiences from New York to Paris. We meet the man behind the music, Shai Fishman. Next, the heart-warming story of a South Korean orchestra made up of blind or visually-impaired children.
Paris Fashion Week highlights
30/09/2011 - CULTURE

Paris Fashion Week highlights

We begin in Florence, where Gucci held an extravagant and luxurious launch party for the new Gucci museum. The star-studded event helped celebrate the brand's 90th anniversary. Next, we head to Paris for a glimpse of Fashion Week highlights so far, including Gareth Pugh's new line and Anthony Vaccarello's prize-winning collection - which stole the show.
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