Hugo Boss, Vera Wang to skip NY Fashion Week

Hugo Boss and Vera Wang are skipping Fashion Week in New York next February in a sign of the upheaval rippling through the industry. In a presentation to investors, the Hugo Boss group explained it wants to concentrate more on its men's ready-to-wear clothes. The fashion house will take part in late January in the menswear fashion show that precedes Fashion Week for women's wear.

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Fashion: Designer Stella McCartney unveils first menswear collection

Fashion designer Stella McCartney unveiled her first menswear collection on Thursday at London's famous Abbey Road recording studio, where she promised men a more free and fun wardrobe. McCartney chose to present the collection at the recording studio made famous by her father, Paul McCartney, and his three fellow Beatles when they named one of their albums after Abbey Road.

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Tom Ford, Kanye West usher in NY Fashion Week

Filmmaker-designer Tom Ford and rap superstar Kanye West fired the start gun on New York Fashion Week Wednesday, unveiling intimate A-list shows that proffered starkly different visions of women's attire. For Ford, who premiered his second movie “Nocturnal Animals” at the Venice film festival only last week, it was a triumphant return to New York after showing more recently in London and Los Angeles.

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Haider Ackermann named Artistic Director at Berluti

Designer Haider Ackermann has been named the new Artistic Director of the luxury menswear label Berluti. Ackermann, a designer more widely known for the womenswear collections under his eponymous label than for his menswear pieces, will take up the position with immediate effect. The Colombian designer launched his brand in 2003, adding a menswear line in 2013.

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Philipp Plein launches new sport line

Philipp Plein is capitalizing on the current athleisure trend by launching a new line of luxury sportswear.

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Vivienne Westwood set to merge menswear and womenswear lines in London

Vivienne Westwood has announced plans to fuse her womenswear and menswear lines under a single label. The grande dame of British fashion has announced she will present her Autumn/Winter 2017/18 collection in one show in January 2017, as part of London Fashion Week Men's. The move effectively puts an end to the practice of showing her womenswear line, formally known as the 'Red Label', and her menswear line, formally known as the 'MAN Label', separately, in London and Milan respectively. The two lines will now sit together under the name 'Vivienne Westwood'.

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Vivienne Westwood set to merge menswear and womenswear lines in London

Vivienne Westwood has announced plans to fuse her womenswear and menswear lines under a single label. The grande dame of British fashion has announced she will present her Autumn/Winter 2017/18 collection in one show in January 2017, as part of London Fashion Week Men's. The move effectively puts an end to the practice of showing her womenswear line, formally known as the 'Red Label', and her menswear line, formally known as the 'MAN Label', separately, in London and Milan respectively. The two lines will now sit together under the name 'Vivienne Westwood'.

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Japanese designer scoops top honor at Hyères fashion awards

Japanese designer Wataru Tominaga has won the Première Vision Grand Prize at the 31th edition of the Hyères International Festival of Fashion and Photography.

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Trousers go baggy as Paris men’s fashion gets supersized

As stock markets tumble and economists talk of more tightening of belts, fashion has gone supersized, with Paris catwalks overflowing Wednesday with outsized overcoats and baggy trousers. If the first day of the menswear catwalks shows is anything to go by, men will be flapping around in too-long trousers and enormous ankle-length coats when the new autumn-winter designs hit the shops in six months' time. Most of the models in Off-White's show looked as if they had borrowed their big brother's clothes or were auditioning for a remake of the video of British ska band Madness' 1980 hit “Baggy Trousers”.

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Missoni, Ferragamo splash color during Milan Fashion Week

MILAN (AP) — The worlds of music, fashion and art continued their long collaboration on the menswear runways of Milan Fashion Week on Sunday.

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