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Paris Fashion Week

Well-known designers from famous houses populated the Paris runways with their collections for fall 2008 that seemed to infer that the world was a dangerous place.

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A Vision of the Future Worth Seeing Again
Article | PARIS At last, the fashion industry -- stuck in a creative malaise of reconstituted vintage styles, adolescent frippery and interchangeable handbags -- has something new to inspire and delight. The Balenciaga show last week was the equivalent of the first season of "The Sopranos" or "The Wire," a...
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In Paris, Some Teeter on the Edge, Others Hone Their Keen Wit
Article | PARIS, Feb. 26 -- At Christian Dior, a fashion house steeped in history and decorum, designer John Galliano sent models down the runway with their eyes shadowed into saucer-size disks and their hair teased to Everest heights. And if it is true that "the higher the hair, the closer to God," then s...
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Old Names With New Faces
Article | PARIS, Feb. 29 The fashion industry here continues to deal with the problem of too many well-known brand names that are long past their expiration date. They are comfortable calling a model obsolete before she celebrates her 25th birthday, but refuse to admit that a middle-aged design house can't...
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In Paris, Wearable Beats Out Whimsical
Article | PARIS -- As strange as it may seem, what makes the Lanvin collection for fall so irresistible is its practicality.
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