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Paris Fashion Week (French: Semaine de la mode de Paris, commonly [la] Fashion Week) is a series of designer presentations held semi-annually in Paris, France, with spring/summer and autumn/winter events held each year. Dates are determined by the Fédération de la Haute Couture et de la Mode. Paris Fashion Week is held at venues throughout ...
Since 1934 it has been the Cirque d'Hiver-Bouglione, operated by the Bouglione brothers and their heirs. The original configuration accommodated 4,000, which has now been reduced to 2,090 due to fire codes. The Cirque d'hiver was the site of the organization meeting of the American Legion from March 15 to 17, 1919. The American Legion was ...
The Palais Galliera, also formally known as the Musée de la Mode de la Ville de Paris (City of Paris Fashion Museum), and formerly known as Musée Galliera, is a museum of fashion and fashion history located at 10, avenue Pierre 1er de Serbie, in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, France. When exhibitions are on it is open daily except Mondays ...
The Cité de la mode et du design on the Seine. The Cité de la mode et du design (City of Fashion and Design) is a building located at the site of the old general storehouses on the Quai d'Austerlitz in the 13th arrondissement of Paris, France. The public opening, originally scheduled for early 2008, took place in 2010.
L'Officiel was first published in 1921. [4] [5] It was the official publication of the Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne, a trade body representing all Paris couturiers, [6]: 83 and took over the role of Les Elégances Parisiennes, a joint publication of a group of about twenty-five couturiers which became defunct in 1922.
The association of France with fashion and style (la mode) is widely credited as beginning during the reign of Louis XIV [5] when the luxury goods industries in France came increasingly under royal control and the French royal court became, arguably, the arbiter of taste and style in Europe.
The artistically lit interior of the Grand Palais in Paris by French visual artist Thierry Dreyfus, 2005. Nuit Blanche (French pronunciation: [nɥi ˈblɑ̃ʃ]) (White Night) is an annual all-night or night-time arts festival of a city.
The Fédération de la Haute Couture et de la Mode (French pronunciation: [fedeʁɑsjɔ̃ d(ə) la ot kutyʁ e d(ə) la mɔd]; 'Federation of Haute Couture and Fashion') is the governing body for the French fashion industry. It has a dual mission: as a professional organisation in the classic sense of the term, as in other sectors of the economy.