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The Luxury Life: Are big brands Louis Vuitton, Dior picking Japan, South Korea over China?
Fp Explainers •China has been propelling the luxury market for decades. But the pandemic and the strict lockdowns have changed a thing or two. Now the biggest brands are betting on Japan and South Korea. Is Beijing missing out?
Fashion faux pas: Did Christian Dior just rip off a Ming Dynasty skirt design?
Fp Explainers •Chinese protestors claim that the Dior skirt is a rip-off of the traditional ‘Mamian’ or ‘horse-face’ skirt that was worn in China during the Ming dynasty
US Open champion Emma Raducanu becomes Dior ambassador
•The British teenager, who is also the face of jewellery brand Tiffany and Co, will represent Maria Grazia Chiuri's womenswear collections and Dior's skincare and make-up ranges.
The journey of craft, from Byculla to Paris: How embroidery from the Chanakya School earned space in a Dior show
Namrata Zakaria •Dior’s chief designer Maria Grazia Chiura is personally invested in Mumbai’s Chanakya School of Craft, established by Monica Shah and Karishma Swali.
Dior hosts its first post-COVID-19 shows in Paris, showcasing fall-winter haute couture collection
•The show opened with a range of black-and-white checks and tweeds with matching boots — some looks embroidered with feathers for a tweed effect.
Drones, an Anna Wintour puppet, projections: Inside brands' experiments with tech for fashion weeks
•In 2014, Fendi sent three drones down the runway to film a show. The move created excitement, but also raised concerns related to hyper-surveillance.
Dior and Chanel go online, but can digital couture shows become a workable fashion model?
•But what this whole digital experiment ultimately revealed is that, though music and movies have been using fashion to their own ends for decades now, reversing the equation doesn’t really work.
Coronavirus Outbreak: Dior revives fashion shows for July — but sans the celebrated front row audience
•Fashion label Christian Dior said it would press ahead with a calendar of fashion shows for this year starting in July with an Italian catwalk display - but without the celebrated front-row audience of A-listers.
Paris Haute Couture Fashion Week 2019 stuns with extraordinary fashion craftsmanship
Fp Staff •The Paris Fall/Winter 2019-20 Haute Couture Week ran from 1 July to 4 July. It was attended by designers, major fashion houses, and celebrities, with a runway that featured colour, print, and stunningly unique craftsmanship.
Month after Notre-Dame Cathedral fire, restoration work on Paris monument proceeds briskly
Fp Staff •A Gothic architectural jewel and part of the world's cultural heritage, Notre-Dame, built in the medieval period, is under restoration after a major fire damaged it on 15 April, 2019.