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Swarovski closes 2022 with double-digit sales growth
Swarovski Crystal Business, the crystal division of the Austrian group, recorded its strongest growth in seven years in 2022 with a 10% increase in turnover to 1.83 billion euros.
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Lila Moss, Hero Fiennes Tiffin join David Yurman ambassador line-up
An English model, an English actor, an American actor and singer and an American country & western star have been unveiled as the latest brand ambassadors for the David Yurman jewellery brand.
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Consumers cut clothing spend in February, but jewellery, beauty get Valentine's boost
UK consumer and retail spend last month was OK, but not brilliant as Valentine's Day provided support for the jewellery and beauty categories, but non-essentials (especially clothing) were largely off the priority list.
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Germanier: Paris Fashion Week's most exciting new talent
Kevin Germanier is a Swiss with an Irish name who happens to be bursting with talent. As his zany, surrealist yet also commercial collection shown Monday in Christie’s Paris auction house fully displayed.
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Louis Vuitton: Edgy urban luxury in the Musée d’Orsay
How to survive with style in the urban jungle was the overriding image of the latest collection by Nicolas Ghesquière for Louis Vuitton staged Monday lunchtime in Paris.
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Tiffany & Co. hires Moda Operandi co-founder
Lauren Santo Domingo joins the American jeweller as creative director of Tiffany&Co. Home and Accessories.
Luxury
Pure, modern, colourful: Pierre Cardin is back on official Parisian calendar
Two years after the death of its eponymous founder, Pierre Cardin made its return to Paris Fashion Week on Sunday evening, 30 years after dropping out of the event’s official calendar.
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Boodle & Dunthorne sees post-pandemic rebound
Jeweller Boodle & Dunthorne’s results for the year to February 2022 showed the company bouncing back from the pandemic. It said that after stores reopened, “trading from that date for the year was very strong indeed”.
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Valentino: Black-tie magic
Only Pierpaolo Piccioli could link Valentino Garavani with Johnny Rotten and combine them into a great fashion collection and show. Taking the idea of black-tie and using it to re-imagine a whole sense of style.
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From spray-on dresses to robots, Coperni continues to showcase innovation
Faced with the challenge of outdoing the success of Bella Hadid's spray-on look, the brand led by Sébastien Meyer and Arnaud Vaillant created a dialogue between models and robotic wolves inspired by Jean de La Fontaine.
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From Cali to Paris, Colombian designer Johanna Ortiz shows at Paris Fashion Week
The Colombian luxury brand unveiled its "effortless" designs distinguished by their unique prints that have already won over leading luxury e-commerce retailers in Paris, at a show held at the Palais Garnier.
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Akris: 70s style celebrates Albert’s fashion baptism
That’s two down and one to go at Akris 100 Years, with Act II staged inside a giant north Paris art gallery, a homage to the brand’s origins and to Switzerland, as a source of exceptional fabrics.
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Balenciaga: A show of tailoring and forgetting
Security was intense for the latest show of Balenciaga on Sunday morning in Paris, with guards positioned at the gateway to the Carrousel du Louvre, in its main corridors and at the entrance into the basement event.
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Alexander McQueen: Remarkable tailoring, artistic anatomy
A cool and clever encounter of the strictest tailoring combined with the voluptuousness of anatomy in a dramatic show and collection for Alexander McQueen by designer Sarah Burton staged Saturday night.
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Saturday in Paris: Hermès and Elie Saab
Two houses that dress the extremely well-heeled, Hermès and Elie Saab, showed on Saturday in Paris; the first designed for discretion, the latter to dazzle.
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Vivienne Westwood: Paris bids farewell to the genius in Place de la Concorde
A tearful moment and understandably so, at the finale of Saturday’s Vivienne Westwood show, the first since the passing of Britain’s great couturier in December.
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