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Tuesday, March 5th, 2013

Saint Laurent Paris FW13: runway review “Walk of Shame”

Hedi Slimane finally crashed the legacy of Yves Saint Laurent after carefully burning down the archives with respect last season. And along with that, he succeded in two manners: one having us editors start our papers with no choice but his name, two killing the historical idea of a singular Parisian Woman. Conservatives will of

Thursday, February 28th, 2013

Paris Fashion Week review: Carven FW13

Guillaume Henry has been raising constant praise from both experts and fashion addicts for a couple of seasons now. What we loved in this latest runway show is that while most coolifying brands (Kenzo we’re looking at...

Wednesday, February 20th, 2013

Shopping Top French Brands #1

Every week or so, follow our editor slash pro-buyer VQ into the depths of the Internet to single out your best shots at stylish and promising french brands and designers. When it comes to contemporary fashion, we...

Thursday, January 10th, 2013

DRS: a new project by Warmi’s founder

Colombian-born french designer Sylvia Toth started Warmi a few years back, developing quite a desirable line of delicate knitwear made in South America. Moving from that first contemporary success, she has started a new brand called DRS....

Wednesday, November 21st, 2012

Goyard – Le Rendez-Vous [clip]

We can’t really afford them (yet!), but we Boulevardiers are really fond of our national treasures of savoir-faire. Among those, trunk maker Goyard in Paris. This new short movie shoes glimpses of glamour and a handful of...

Friday, November 9th, 2012

Domaine des Hautes Glaces x Le Dixieme by atelier Xavier Forêt

When it comes to good taste, your very own editor here VQ believes that it’s not only a matter of being trendy, it’s really a state of mind. So when we tasted , a strong yet very...

Saturday, October 6th, 2012

Paris Fashion Week review: Saint Laurent Spring Summer 2013

While commentators and editors here and there remain skeptical after the parisian show (watch the feud between Cathy Horyn and Hedi Slimane), we went after any reason to foresee a bright future for (Yves) Saint Laurent (Paris)....

Friday, September 7th, 2012

French Brands To Watch #1: Bérangère Claire

French designer Bérangère Claire started back in 2007 with a simple quest that would set the mood for parisian elegance for the years to come: bring some fresh inspirations from the US to Parisians and other frenchies....