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Rousteing gives one-off Gaultier couture display in Paris
Read full article: Rousteing gives one-off Gaultier couture display in ParisAn enfant terrible has appeared in a new guise as designer Olivier Rousteing of Balmain took a one-off shot at a couture collection for the house of Jean Paul Gaultier.
Dior celebrates couture craft, as maskless Delevingne irks
Read full article: Dior celebrates couture craft, as maskless Delevingne irksThe atelier ā the workshop of hands ā took the Dior center stage on Monday to produce a refined show on the first day of Paris couture shows, which aim to elevate the houseās savoir-faire expertise of its seamstresses.
Virus pushes storied Paris fan museum to brink of folding
Read full article: Virus pushes storied Paris fan museum to brink of foldingAnne Hoguet, 74, fan maker and director of the hand fan-making museum poses with a wood roasted hand fan representing a falcon hunt, gouache painting g on paper from 1880 at the museum in Paris, Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021. Just like the leaves of its gilded fans, France's storied hand fan-making museum could fold up and vanish. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)PARIS ā Just like the leaves of its gilded fans, Franceās storied fan-making museum could fold and vanish. The splendid Musee de lāEventail in Paris, classed as a historical monument, is the cultural worldās latest coronavirus victim. The studio that teaches design and restoration to a new generation of fan-makers was placed on Franceās intangible heritage list last year.