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SONIA RYKIEL AUTUMN/WINTER 2015-16 READY-TO-WEAR PARIS FASHION WEEK SECOND collections are perhaps even harder than the first when you've taken on a brand mantle - and especially when the first one was so well received, just as Julie de Libran's was for Sonia Rykiel last season. She'd managed to put confidence and a point of view ...

ESTEBAN CORTAZAR AUTUMN/WINTER 2015-16 READY-TO-WEAR PARIS FASHION WEEK "British/Colombian designer Esteban Cortazar spent his formative years growing up in Miami’s South Beach during the early 1990s. “I would walk by the beach and see Patrick Demarchelier and Herb Ritts photographing Cindy and Christy,” recalls Cortazar, who also met noted designers Gianni Versace and Todd Oldham. “They ...

CHANEL AUTUMN/WINTER 2015-16 READY-TO-WEAR PARIS FASHION WEEK THERE can't be many better places to spend a Tuesday morning than at the Brasserie Gabrielle. With a multimillion pound budget, Karl Lagerfeld transformed the Grand Palais into the chicest - and largest - of Parisian cafes, complete with mosaic tiled floor - OK, it actually turned out to ...

SAINT LAURENT AUTUMN/WINTER 2015-16 READY-TO-WEAR PARIS FASHION WEEK With Hedi Slimane, you're either a true believer or you're not. His vision for Saint Laurent, like his dresses, allows for virtually no wiggle room. There are still naysayers. But for every person who walks out complaining that it looks like Forever 21, as we overheard tonight, or ...

PAULE KA Autumn/Winter 2015-16 Ready-To-Wear PARIS FASHION WEEK Meryl Streep wore Paule Ka to both the Golden Globes and the New York premiere of Into the Woods. A coup of this caliber can make for a nice brand boost—except that oftentimes, people don't dare ask Streep what she's wearing. But this hasn't stopped the Parisian label ...

VANESSA SEWARD AUTUMN/WINTER 2015-16 READY-TO-WEAR PARIS FASHION WEEK What a treat to see Vanessa Seward's name on a Paris fashion week invitation. First, because it's fairly rare in this city of corporate powerhouses for a talented designer to launch a brand under her own name. And second, and relatedly, because this is someone who has really ...