Luxury brand Kering’s couture house Yves Saint Laurent announced the departure of Hedi Slimane as the company’s creative and image director, as per a company press release. Francesca Bellettini, president and CEO of Yves Saint Laurent, said, “I would like to thank Hedi Slimane very much for his vision in reforming such an iconic House Read More →

NAOMI CAMPBELL has spoken out in support of Ashley Graham, followingCheryl Teigs’s comments last month criticising Graham’s appearance on the cover of Sports Illustrated due to her size. “I would never make a comment like that. I think it’s way too personal,” Campbell told Sway Calloway’s radio show, Sway in the Morning, yesterday, reports E!. Read More →

MUMBAI — The Lakme Fashion Week summer-resort shows appear to be seeking differentiation this year, which is evident from the schedule and from events taking place. “We’re curating the thought a lot more,” Saket Dhankar, head of fashion at IMG-Reliance. The fashion week, which started on Wednesday and will run for five days, is organized by beauty brand Read More →

It is crunch time in a Calgary basement. Two engineers, a singer with a background in neuroscience and a retired doctor who dabbles in dressmaking are putting the finishing touches on a dress that reads minds. Well, sort of. Angie Coombes, a Calgary singer-songwriter with a background in neuroscience, is the driving force behind this project to Read More →

Sunday, almost one month after the end of Paris Fashion Week, brought glorious springlike weather and coincided with the 40th Paris marathon — as well as Azzedine Alaïa’s fall show. The designer is apparently as impervious to time as a mountain range. See-later, buy-later seems to be his counterintuitive slogan. And yet he drew a full Read More →