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Balmain Spring 2017 Ready-to-Wear Paris Fashion Week In June, news broke that Mayhoola, the investment group linked to the Qatari royal family, bought Balmain—just days before the fashion house’s menswear show in Paris. Mayhoola also acquired Valentino in 2012. And if that brand’s trajectory is anything to go by, Balmain and its creative director, Olivier Rousteing, ...

Melitta Baumeister Spring 2017 Ready-to-Wear Paris Fashion Week After three years of constructing innovative garment shapes from industrial materials, Melitta Baumeister has finally made a collection that no longer feels so intimidating. This season marks a turning point for the New York–based designer, whose steadfast approach to stiff volumes has quite likely restricted her from achieving ...

Manish Arora Spring 2017 Ready-to-Wear Paris Fashion Week Nothing quite prepares you for a blue Pomeranian—even when you remember him as being purple last season. But Fluffy the dog was one of many reprised ingredients that went into Manish Arora’s runway recipe for happiness. A choker fronted with a fried egg, rainbow-striped creepers, and My Little ...

Paco Rabanne Spring 2017 Ready-to-Wear Paris Fashion Week You don’t get the feeling that Julien Dossena is going through the motions at Paco Rabanne. So many young designers who are airlifted into storied fashion houses take it as an opportunity to bend the meaning of the brand to whatever their own identity may be. Dossena, however, had ...

Carven Spring 2017 Ready-to-Wear Paris Fashion Week In a season of this much industry shift and change, one might do well to remember the following: 1.) It is certainly not easy to be an entrepreneur, to break out and create your own brand. 2.) But it may in fact be harder to take up the reins ...

Fenty x Puma Spring 2017 Ready-to-Wear Paris Fashion Week As one of the biggest pop stars on the planet, Rihanna isn’t a woman who is easily impressed. And yet, there is something about Paris that has her starstruck. It’s partly why she chose to show her new Fenty x Puma collection at the Hôtel Salomon de ...