Photo Diary | PFW, Days 1-2: Damir Doma, Dries van Noten, Balmain, Rick Owens, Lanvin

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  • Anthony Vaccarello A/W 2013 | Photo: Sonny Vandevelde
  • Damir Doma A/W 2013 | Photo: Sonny Vandevelde
  • Dries Van Noten A/W 2013 | Photo: Sonny Vandevelde
  • Felipe Oliveira Baptista A/W 2013 | Photo: Sonny Vandevelde
  • Gareth Pugh A/W 2013 | Photo: Sonny Vandevelde
  • Mugler A/W 2013 | Photo: Sonny Vandevelde
  • Manish Arora A/W 2013 | Photo: Sonny Vandevelde
  • Balmain A/W 2013 | Photo: Sonny Vandevelde
  • Rick Owens A/W 2013 | Photo: Sonny Vandevelde
  • Lanvin A/W 2013 | Photo: Sonny Vandevelde

PARIS, France — Straight from Paris, BoF’s contributing photographer Sonny Vandevelde brings us backstage imagery from the Anthony Vaccarello, Damir Doma, Dries van Noten, Felipe Oliveira Baptista, Gareth Pugh, Mugler, Manish Arora, Balmain, Rick Owens and Lanvin shows, held on the first and second days of Paris Fashion Week.

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Is Fashion Ready for a New Aesthetic?

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Editorial GIF by Reed + Rader | Source: V Magazine

LONDON, United Kingdom — Instagram, Barbour, vinyl records, artisanal butchers, moustaches, and the biography of your potatoes lovingly detailed on chalkboard signs at Whole Foods. What is wrong with this picture? As London-based writer and entrepreneur Russell M Davies puts it, “most of Shoreditch would be wandering around in a leather apron if it could. With pipe and beard and rickets. Every new coffee shop and organic foodery

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Photo Diary | 10 Fashion Moments at Paris Fashion Week

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  • Rick Owens' beautiful draped silhouettes and soft colours | Photo: Morgan O'Donovan for Dazed Digital
  • Sarah Burton continued her astounding evolution of the Alexander McQueen brand with a show focused on exploding 3-dimensional shapes. | Photo: Morgan O'Donovan for Dazed Digital
  • Marc Jacobs clever plan to bring more bags than ever on the Louis Vuitton runway, while evoking the brand's heritage of travel was a showstopper | Photo: Morgan O'Donovan for Dazed Digital
  • Olivier Rousteing delivered a characteristically over-the-top Balmain collection with Fabergé egg motifs | Photo: Morgan O'Donovan for Dazed Digital
  • Effortless, minimal shapes in bold colours, made for a Hussein Chalayan show that was surprisingly commercial, but still striking to take in | Photo: Morgan O'Donovan for Dazed Digital
  • Pretty clothes and new shapes at Dior, but where was the dream? To be continued. | Photo: Morgan O'Donovan for Dazed Digital
  • Kenzo designers Humberto Leon and Carol Lim showed their second collection of bright prints and colours at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie | Photo: Morgan O'Donovan for Dazed Digital
  • Alber Elbaz's blowout 10th anniversary fashion show and party at Lanvin was the Paris Fashion Week moment | Photo: Morgan O'Donovan for Dazed Digital
  • Gareth Pugh's female urban warriors were ready for a style battle | Photo: Morgan O'Donovan for Dazed Digital
  • Manish Arora toned things down and focused on the codes of the house in his second showing for Paco Rabanne | Photo: Morgan O'Donovan for Dazed Digital

PARIS, France — Ahh, Paris. The spiritual home of fashion where the wonderful diversity of creative ideas and fashion dreams comes together in a veritable cornucopia of collections that close off fashion month. We’ve selected ten fashion moments from the Autumn/Winter 2012 collections in Paris, with photographs by Morgan O’Donovan, whose camera was focused on all the goings on backstage — before, during and after the runway shows.

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M&A in the cards for Fast Retailing, Calvin Klein in China, Gareth Pugh for MAC, 90 years of Gucci, Cardin’s career

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Pierre Cardin | Source: D La Repubblica

Fast Retailing May Buy Bigger Rival in U.S., Europe on Yen (Bloomberg) “Fast Retailing Co., Asia’s largest clothing chain, may buy a bigger rival in the U.S. or Europe after the yen’s advance to a postwar high against the dollar boosted the Japanese company’s purchasing power… The billionaire aims to take advantage of the yen’s climb to expand outside Japan, where an unexpectedly long summer damped demand for fall and

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Looking back with caution, Don’t forget the clothes, H&M’s profits fall, Haulers drive marketing, Cool McQueen

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L-R Rick Owens, Balmain, Balenciaga | Source: Style.com

Raid the Archives With Caution (NY Times) “Mr. Ghesquiere can come away refreshed from the Balenciaga archive, but for most designers the postwar couture is an element in the cut-and-paste process that largely defines current fashion. Designers saw the Madame Grès exhibition here this summer; they know Balenciaga’s volumes and bullring pomp by heart. But they always have to do something extreme to make you think it’s

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