Balmain Beauty expected to retail in autumn 2024
Balmain and Estée Lauder have entered into a licensing agreement to create Balmain Beauty, expected to launch in the autumn of 2024. Guillaume Jesel will head the new brand alongside his responsibilities at Tom Ford Beauty […]
Victoria’s Secret–Balmain collection, VS × Balmain, goes on sale
Russell James The Victoria’s Secret Balmain collaboration, designed by Olivier Rousteing, has now gone on sale after being shown publicly at the 2017 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show in Shanghai. Called VS × Balmain, the 22-piece collection was first publicly modelled by Candice Swanepoel, Adriana Lima, Jasmine Tookes, Sara Sampaio and Josephine Skriver. Rousteing’s […]
Pascal le Segretain; Kristy Sparow L’Oréal Paris has the budget for spectacle, and it literally stopped traffic with its latest newsmaker on Sunday: a fashion and beauty runway show right in the middle of the Champs-Élysées, where its ambassadors Alexina Graham, Barbara Palvin, Bianca Balti, Cheryl Cole, Doutzen Krœs, Jane Fonda, Dame Helen Mirren, Irina […]
Gareth Cattermole; Anthony Ghnassia; Daniele Venturelli The AmFAR Gala is traditionally the biggest do during the Festival de Cannes, and this year was no exception. The events had kicked off on Wednesday with a party for Persol, the Torino-founded eyewear brand, which celebrated its centenary. In partnership with AmFAR, the event took place on […]
Jacovides-Borde-Moreau/Bestima; Dominique Charriau; Stéphane Feugère You would be forgiven thinking there was a sense of déjà vu at day eight of the Cannes Film Festival, with Sofia Coppola’s The Beguiled starring Nicole Kidman and Colin Farrell again. Adapted from the novel by Thomas P. Cullinan, a 1971 adaptation had starred Clint Eastwood, and is considered […]
Pascal Le Segretain; Gareth Cattermole; Kevin Tachman/AmFAR The swankiest do during the Festival de Cannes is the AmFAR gala, held at the Hôtel du Cap-Eden-Roc, and presented by Harry Winston and Bold Films. The event, Cinema Against Aids, raised over US$25 million supporting AmFAR, the Foundation for Aids Research, and its pursuit of a cure […]
News in brief: Hannah Jinkins wins H&M Design Award; Olivia Culpo endorses Osmosis Skincare
Top Hannah Jinkins, H&M Design Award 2016 winner. Above Jinkins with the jury. Royal College of Art graduate Hannah Jinkins, 24, was named the winner of the H&M Design Award 2016 earlier this week, selected by a jury of eight made up of Nick Knight, Olivier Rousteing, Kate Bosworth, Margareta van den Bosch, Ann-Sofie Johansson, […]
Mike Marsland/British Fashion Council Jonathan Anderson, the man behind the label J. W. Anderson, has scooped both the men’s and women’s Designer of the Year awards at the British Fashion Awards last night, held at the Coliseum in London. Anderson has previously won the men’s prize, in 2014, the New Establishment Designer award in […]
Olivier Rousteing, Kendall Jenner and Jourdan Dunn promote H&M–Balmain collaboration
Top Jourdan Dunn, Olivier Rousteing and Kendall Jenner for H&M and Balmain. Above Olivier Rousteing. Below left Ann-Sofie Johansson of H&M. Hennes & Mauritz’s next designer collaboration, on sale November 5, is with Balmain of Paris. Founded by Pierre Balmain after World War II, the veritable house rode a high soon after launch, being […]
Paris Fashion Week, autumn–winter 2012–13: Carven, Balmain, Nina Ricci
On day two of Paris Fashion Week, we feature videos from Carven, Balmain and Nina Ricci, plus our first highlight reel from la semaine de la mode. Guillaume Henry at Carven continued to make the house more chic by the season. Once nearly dormant, in six seasons, Henry has made Carven the darling of […]
