Fashion collaborations to watch out for in 2017

From Gigi Hadid and Tommy Hilfiger to Rihanna and Manolo Blahnik, 2016 was a generous year when it came to high-profile fashion collaborations. Supermodel of the moment Bella Hadid is working on her debut jewelry collection with LA brand Chrome Hearts. Details are being kept strictly under wraps, and an official release date has yet to be announced, but the house is known for unique, rock-and-roll-inspired pieces, so we can expect something urban and edgy.

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Fashion collaborations to watch out for in 2017

Lily-Rose Depp, Cara Delevingne shimmy down the catwalk for Chanel

Cara Delevingne made a catwalk comeback on Tuesday when she starred in the 2016 Chanel Métiers d'Art show in Paris. The supermodel, actress and Karl Lagerfeld protégée, who has been focusing on her movie career recently, appeared early on in the show at the city's newly re-opened Ritz Hotel. While it was return to business as usual for Delevingne, some models — notably Lily-Rose Depp — were making their runway debut for the house.

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Lily-Rose Depp, Cara Delevingne shimmy down the catwalk for Chanel

Chanel celebrates femininity in a digital age

Karl Lagerfeld turned Paris's Grand Palais into a Chanel 'Data Center' for the house's Spring/Summer 2017 ready-to-wear show on Tuesday.

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Chanel to show Metiers d’Art collection in the Ritz, Paris

Chanel is staying home this year for its Metiers d'Art catwalk show, which will take place in the Ritz Paris. Creative Director Karl Lagerfeld chose the Ritz for its links to the house's famous founder, Gabrielle 'Coco' Chanel, who lived at the hotel for over 30 years, decorating the luxury apartment herself. Located in the French capital's prestigious Place Vendome, the Ritz re-opened its doors this summer after a four-year-long renovation period that saw the addition of a new 'terrasse' and the reduction of rooms from 159 to 142 for a more spacious guest experience.

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Roland Mouret moves flagship store into New York townhouse

French designer Roland Mouret has moved his flagship New York store into a townhouse on Madison Avenue that will house a mix of retail along with his personal art collection and porcelain sculptures. Mouret has relocated his store just a block down the road into a larger space that that will use the first floor as a retail area, while the upper floors of the house will be reserved for appointments, fittings and the designer's personal use, reports WWD. To mark the opening, Mouret has created a special-edition jumpsuit that will be sold exclusively at the flagship New York store.

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Roland Mouret moves flagship store into New York townhouse

Celebrities that loved Peter Copping’s Oscar de la Renta gowns

Oscar de la Renta has always been a favorite among the rich and famous when it comes to red carpet dressing. Following the news of Creative Director Peter Copping's departure from the house, we take a look at the stars that glittered in his designs. Emma Stone sizzled at the Cannes Film Festival last year, donning an Oscar de la Renta Pre Fall 2015 black chantilly lace cocktail dress with organza ruffles that was both classic and daring.

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Gigi Hadid gets playful for new Tommy Hilfiger campaign ‘The Girl’

Tommy Hilfiger has released the campaign images for its latest fragrance “The Girl,” starring Gigi Hadid. The US designer teamed up with the supermodel and Tommy Hilfiger ambassador and put her all-American appeal to good use for the campaign, which celebrates the house's brand new eau de toilette scent. Inspired by what he terms Hadid's “free-spirited and magnetic” personality, the fragrance features opening notes of green pear, violet leaf and green fig leaves before moving to the heart of velvety jasmine petals and silky muguet, finished by hints of cedarwood and cashmeran.

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Gigi Hadid gets playful for new Tommy Hilfiger campaign ‘The Girl’

Margiela, Franck Sorbier and Elie Saab put on a show for Couture Week

Haute couture week 2016 took a turn for the theatrical on Wednesday, with Maison Margiela, Franck Sorbier and Elie Saab opening the day's presentations in a rush of showmanship. Margiela, with John Galliano at the helm, served up a stage-worthy collection that blended the house's signature eccentricity with references to historical characters and futuristic possibilities. To this end, oversized jackets were worn upside down on the torso, Napoleonic hats were teamed with festival-style thigh-length Wellington boots, and metallic silver mini dresses trailed capes behind them.

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Margiela, Franck Sorbier and Elie Saab put on a show for Couture Week

Karl Lagerfeld’s Chanel couture show pays tribute to the house’s ‘petites mains’

Haute couture has come to epitomize the pinnacle of glamour, to the extent that it can be easy to forget that the mythical creations seen on the world's red carpets once begun life as something as ordinary as a piece of fabric in the hands of a talented tailor. Karl Lagerfeld used the Chanel Fall/Winter 2016 couture presentation to celebrate the house's 'petites mains', meaning the talented team of artisans that beaver away in the brand's tailoring and dressmaking workshops on Paris's rue Cambon. “I thought that was a modern idea to make them participate,” explains Lagerfeld.

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Karl Lagerfeld’s Chanel couture show pays tribute to the house’s ‘petites mains’

Condé Nast International to launch Vogue Arabia

Condé Nast has announced they will be launching a Vogue Arabia edition this fall reports Business of Fashion. The launch of the magazine will see the publisher partner with Dubai-based media company Nervora to finally make their move into the Middle Eastern market. Condé Nast will first launch a website in Arabic and English before launching a print magazine in spring 2017.

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