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Kerby Jean-Raymond, founder of the label Pyer Moss, is set to make history this summer as the first black American designer invited to show at Paris Haute Couture Week.
Hand-picked by the notoriously particular governing body, Chambre
Syndicale, Jean-Raymond will now join the ranks of Elie Saab, Chanel, Christian Dior, Valentino and
Zuhair Murad at the highly anticipated autumn 2021 couture shows, which will take place in July.
The shows are expected to be held in front of a
physical audience, for the first time since the onset of the pandemic.
Who is Kerby Jean-Raymond?
The Haitian-American designer started his fashion career interning for Theory and Marchesa, before acting as a freelance designer for Kenneth Cole, Badgley Mischka and Marc Jacobs.
New York Fashion Week is officially returning with in-person shows this September
Mark your calendars for September 8.
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Although New Yorkers have a love-and-hate relationship with New York Fashion Week (NYFW), the official return of in-person shows after almost two years of virtual ones is a welcome one, a signal pointing towards the comeback of semi-normalcy.
The spring 2022 shows will kick off on September 8, culminating in the already-announced Met gala celebration on September 13 (this year s theme will be In America: A lexicon of Fashion ), hosted by Timothée Chamalet, Billie Eilish, Amanda Gorman and Naomi Osaka. This season’s shows are an opportunity to reaffirm the resilience and independence of American fashion and New York City as a global fashion force, writes Council of Fashion Designers of America chairman Tom Ford in an official letter announcing the news. I started my career on Seventh Avenue and while I spent most of my working life in Eu
Will We All Want to Be Wearing Halston Soon?
A new Netflix show could create the viral fashion trend of summer. Except the clothes play second fiddle to the divadom and drama.
Halston’s epic fashion salvo during “The Battle of Versailles,” as depicted in “Halston,” the series.Credit.via Netflix
Published May 14, 2021Updated May 18, 2021
It was bound to happen. After the viral trendsetting of the ’60s shifts in “The Queen’s Gambit” and the ’80s puff sleeves of “The Crown,” it was only a matter of time before Netflix embraced fashion as the Next Great Brand Extension. And what better test than a show based entirely on the life and times of a great designer?