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Fashion » At the shows

PFW diary: Our cheat sheet to a day full of Jean Paul Gaultier, Viktor & Rolf, Cacharel, Sonia Rykiel, and Kanye West gossip

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Jean Paul Gaultier shot by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images

Judging from the long line-ups at the Gelato stands I whizzed by today, Paris is doing Summer: Part Deux. While the temperatures continue to soar, the PFWers continue to get creative with the contents of their luggage in an attempt to beat the heat: Knits are paired with shorts and summer dresses with suede knee-high boots; open-toed flat sandals are back; hair has gone the way of the top knot and makeup is down to a slash of bright lipstick. Bags run the gamut from leather to straw to skins to canvas. And sunglasses? If you don’t have a pair that’s brightly coloured/aviator/dark and oversized/white, you might as well stay in your hotel room and catch up on the Jackson Trial. Luckily, I brought two pairs that fit the bill (David Yurman and Marc Jacobs) so I spent Saturday dodging French doggie doo on the streets in between shows and presentations. Here’s the highlight reel of my day:
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Shopping

Toronto shop notes: Alpine escapade

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Mac & Jac

Photography by Carlo Mendoza, (styled by Breanna Gow for judyinc.com).

Judging from the selection of chunky cable knits, Fair Isle patterns, and fisherman sweaters spotted this fall, designers like Sonia Rykiel and Jil Sander’s Raf Simons are ready for an alpine escapade. Channel the cabin-fever craze with a Nordic knit, like this one by Mac & Jac ($80, at Sears), paired with stovepipe trousers and chunky boots.

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Ones to Watch: The Berlin-based designer that is making a case for couture

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Dawid Tomaszewski

We’ve feared the permanent death of couture for quite some time now. Since being eschewed for the faster world of ready-to-wear in the ’70s, the art form seems to be shrinking in significance ever so slightly year after year. So it’s exciting to see new talent taking an interest in the techniques of old master couturiers. Take Dawid Tomaszewski, the Berlin-based designer whose decadent pieces display timeless elegance and attention to detail, establishing a “new couture.”

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Shopping

FASHION plates: Get Kate’s sailor inspired look!

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By Randi Bergman and Jordan Porter

We’ve made it pretty clear that we’re all about Kate this week, right? Right? We’re especially into her sailor-inspired Alexander McQueen dress worn yesterday in Prince Edward Island, so much so that we’ve gone shopping in the name of the future Queen. God save her and her style sense, really. Ahoy mate!

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Model minute: Lauren Berntzen

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Name: Lauren Berntzen

Agency: Sutherland Models

Where you’ve seen her: Lauren, who recently moved to Toronto from British Columbia, shot a look book for eco-fashion label Thieves earlier this fall, and appears in our holiday Style Studio video series. Read more »


Fashion » At the shows

Video: Irina Lazareanu lost her voice watching Olympic hockey

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Bernadette Morra caught up with Irina Lazareanu at the Sonia Rykiel show in Paris on Sunday. Irina talks about her off-the-runway experience at fashion week, her upcoming album with Sean Lennon and how she lost her voice screaming at the TV during the Olympic gold medal hockey game.

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Fashion news: Giancarlo Giametti gets a bit TMI, the reason behind the Rykiel collab and Jessica Stam for Nina Ricci

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SONIA RYKIEL Spring 2010. Photography by Peter Stigter

SONIA RYKIEL Spring 2010. Photography by Peter Stigter

Nathalie Rykiel explained the reason for the Sonia Rykiel collab with H&M: they copied her! In an interview, the creative director revealed that she told the chain that if they wanted “[their] girls to wear Sonia Rykiel from H&M, let’s let them have the real thing!” [Nylon via Fashionologie]

Valentino partner Giancarlo Giammetti has learned just how far Facebook networking stretches, especially when it involves negative press. After watching the Valentino spring 2010 show in Paris, Giammetti took to his FB page and changed his status to read “not sad … just surprised. … We have always supported the new designers and we love them, but this time we have to distance ourselves from this ridiculous circus.” After a flood of comments, Giammetti deleted his status, “…because it was becoming [too] heavy.” [The Cut] Read more »


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Video: A sneak peek of Sonia Rykiel’s H&M clothing line

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Not surprisingly, Sonia Rykiel‘s clothing line for H&M, which hits stores on February 20, has a lot of stripes. The French designer’s signature look is all over this making-of video in classic Breton black and white, wide stripes of yellow, pink and purple, and even sequinned pink and black. The majority of the collection in Rykiel’s stock-in-trade knitwear–dresses, sweaters, jumpsuits–but there are also candy-coloured bangles, diamante brooches and spangled berets and patent belts. Though we’re not sure if it’s going to be for sale, what we really want is the little Sonia doll, decked out in stripes, big red hair blazing. Tell us in the comments which pieces you love!

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