Hubert de Givenchy, couturier, passes away aged 91
LVMH Paramount Above, from top: Hubert de Givenchy, the founder of the Givenchy label. His most famous design, Audrey Hepburn’s little black dress from Breakfast at Tiffany’s. Hubert de Givenchy, the couturier and designer, has passed away aged 91, his family announced on Monday. Givenchy, or formally Count Hubert James Marcel Taffin de Givenchy, […]
NGV and Dior announce House of Dior: Seventy Years of Haute Couture exhibition, starting August ’17
Wayne Taylor Top: National Gallery of Victoria and House of Dior announce House of Dior: Seventy Years of Haute Couture at NGV International, opening August 2017. At the media announcement on Friday, Sandra Sundelin, Alejandra Zuluaga, Ella Bond, Maddison Lukes, and Bela Pelacio Hazewinkel model various Dior designs. Above: Ella Bond models the Dior bar […]
Chanel previews Milano leg of its Little Black Jacket exhibition with Diane Kruger photo
We recently mentioned that the Milano exhibition to accompany The Little Black Jacket: Chanel’s Classic Revisited by Karl Lagerfeld and Carine Roitfeld had new works, so that those attending in the Italian fashion capital would not feel they were getting a second-hand collection that had already done the rounds in Tokyo, New York, London, Paris […]
Paris haute couture autumn–winter 2012–13: Kim Kardashian, Kanye West, Nicky Hilton at Valentino
Kim Kardashian (with Kanye West in tow) and former Lucire cover girl (and, we should mention, hotel heiress) Nicky Hilton give their remarks in advance of the Valentino haute couture show at the Hôtel Salomon de Rothschild in Paris on Wednesday, in our video from ITN below. Kardashian says this is her first Parisian […]
The enfant terrible comes of age: The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier shows in San Francisco
Elyse Glickman It may seem at first blush like somewhat of a surprise that an ambitious fashion-as-art exhibition starring Jean-Paul Gaultier, The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: from the Sidewalk to the Catwalk, is creating a major buzz in San Francisco instead of New York or even Los Angeles. However, given San Francisco is […]
Yves Saint Laurent: the Retrospective to head to Denver Art Museum
Yves Saint Laurent: the Retrospective will take in Denver for its only North American stop between March 25 and July 8, 2012. Held at the Denver Art Museum, the exhibition features 200 haute couture outfits, and photographs, drawings and films. The exhibition follows Saint Laurent from his work at Dior in 1958 through to […]
CNN interviews Karl Lagerfeld on Macy’s diffusion line: video and transcript
Our colleagues at CNN International have provided us a transcript and video of Karl Lagerfeld’s exclusive talk to Felicia Taylor about the launch of his new diffusion fashion line at Macy’s, and fashion’s relevance to a more connected, and less affluent, era. CNN will feature more from Karl Lagerfeld during ‘The Fashion Season’, beginning […]
More haute couture reports: Van Cleef & Arpels, Basil Soda
More couture reports are going up in the fashion features’ part of Lucire’s online edition. Van Cleef & Arpels’ latest jewellery can be found here, complete with an interview by Paris editor Lola Saab with Nick Foulkes. Foulkes, as many of you will know, is a well known fashion writer and historian, and his […]
Video clips and interviews: Chanel haute couture, autumn–winter 2011–12
Online today: Vicki Matias’s review of the Chanel haute couture show last week. At the bottom of the page are three videos, which we’ve repeated below for those following Lucire via RSS. Later this coming week: some more couture reports, including Stéphane Rolland and Basil Soda. The videos give a very good idea […]
Christian Dior shows haute couture collection sans John Galliano
Christian Dior’s autumn–winter 2011–12 haute couture show lends a bit of playful relief, following the house’s recent fiasco regarding the sacking of its former creative director John Galliano. Bill Gaytten, accompanied by his assistant Susanna Venegas, has stepped up to the challenge to be considered as the new creative director and on July 4, presented […]
