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PARIS, Jul 30, 2008 / FR / — Architectonically designed to flatter the female form, the Ramosport Spring 2009 collection plays with inlays and bias cuts to compose a wardrobe in both soft and vibrant colours. “Inspired by the film with Peter Sellers “The Party,” I have tried to reinterpret for today the freedom and imagination so unique to the 1960s” , explains Julien Fournié, the Creative Director of the Parisian brand specialized in “casual luxury”. “In addition to coats, Read more

PARIS, Jul 28, 2008 / FR/ —- To match an extremely feminine womenswear, Ramosport has chosen to propose a resolutely masculine and refined line for men. “I was very much inspired by the figure of Alain Delon in films by Jean-Pierre Melville of the sixties and seventies”, says Julien Fournié, the Parisian brand’s Creative Director, who signs thus his first collection for men. Trench-coats, parkas, blouson jackets are made for a world traveller, a city-dweller who likes to move around Read more

GEORGES CHAKRA ANSWERS FASHIONREPORTERS’ SEVEN QUESTIONS INTERVIEW PARIS, June 26, 2008 /FR/ — Georges Chakra is one of the few designers from Lebanon who regularly puts his outfits under the spotlights of Paris Couture Fashion Week, striking a particular balance between the satisfaction of his demanding Couture customers and an innovative spirit, integrating in the field of luxury new materials and sometimes aiming at dressing a younger woman than the traditional clients of top luxury m Read more

PARIS, June 5, 2008 — /FR/— The ceremony had been expected by all aesthetes in France and around the world since the announcement of Yves Saint Laurent’s death, last sunday night at 11:10 pm . No wonder everybody in Paris wanted to attend for a last tribute. Pierre Bergé, the mythic couturier’s lifelong partner in love and business, the designer’s constant support and guardian , the co-founder of the museum which sits now where the see of the Couture House used to be on 5 Avenue Marc Read more

PARIS, June 2, 2008 /FR/— Yves Saint Laurent has died last night at 11:10 p.m. Paris time. One of the greatest fashion designers ever has passed away six years after his last “historical” Haute Couture runway show, and the world of fashion worldwide is in mourning. The couturier who is famous for having adapted and proposed a new elegance to women with his female tuxedos was a true genius of French 20th century fashion. Innumerable images come to the mind of the fashion observer : his “c Read more

PARIS PRET-A-PORTER (PARISFASHION WEEK) FALL-WINTER 2008-2009 PARIS, March 14, 2008 /FR/ — Even to the connoisseur’s eye attending the runway shows at Paris Fashion Week, this last trend of the season is not as obvious as the previous ones mentioned here. To detect it a good knowledge of Costume history and 2Oth century design movements is required. Let us go back to the beginning of the 20Th century, when a real revolution marked a turn in the world of design and art: Art Nouveau was creati Read more