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Updated Aug. 25, 2024 at 11:45 am Happy 55 to German supermodel Claudia Schiffer, who was born on this day in 1970. Who is Claudia Schiffer? Claudia Schiffer is a supermodel who was born in Rheinberg, Germany. She rose to fame in the 1990s when she was discovered by a modeling agent in a nightclub […]
Updated April 28, 2024 at 11:45 a.m. Spanish actress Penélope Cruz was born on this day in 1974, in Madrid, Spain. She began her acting career in the early 1990s. Where did Penélope Cruz grow up? Penélope Cruz Sánchez grew up in Alcobendas, a town near Madrid, Spain. She grew up in a working-class family, the […]
Anonymous customers, confidential prices, private fittings. Even today, haute couture remains a secret world where each fashion house has its own way of operating and communicating.
Rather than offer discounts, high-end brands like Chanel are asking even more for their products. Silvia Ihring, style editor-at-large for German daily Die Welt, explains why.
Amateur fashion aficionados are using new technology to celebrate the pre-internet past, and forcing labels to reconsider their archives.
“Legendary,” “pioneering,” “the savior of Chanel,” “fashion icon…” Superlatives abound in international headlines as news outlets take a moment to pay homage to the German-born designer Karl Lagerfeld, who has died in Paris at age 85. Nicknamed the “Kaiser” of fashion, the creative director of both the French luxury fashion house Chanel and the Italian brand Fendi had become as much an icon as the clothes he designed. OneShot pays its respects to the unmistakable black-and-white fashion genius. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/embed/aDPewd2bK7g expand=1] The Kaiser Of Fashion Leaves The Runway — © Hendrik Ballhausen/DPA/ZUMA/OneShot OneShot is a new digital format to tell […]
For centuries, southeastern Grasse has been a flower growing hub for the fragrance industry. Though regular business from luxury titans has been a lifeline for local farmers, they’re finding it hard to survive in the globalized market.
STERN (Germany), LE TELEGRAMME, LE PARISIEN, NOUVEL OBSERVATEUR, CLOSER (France) Worldcrunch Paris Fashion Week, a twice-a-year ode to luxury consumption, has been going on for several days. It is the best time of year for celebrity-watchers to catch a glimpse of Kate Moss, Kristen Stewart, Salma Hayek, Princess Charlene of Monaco or Valerie Trierweiler, “first […]