Four things we’ve learned from Paris men’s fashion week

As the last of the Paris menswear collections go down runways Sunday, we survey the big themes of the week's fashion shows. String vests and braces have never looked so elegant as they did on the Dior runway, with designer Kris Van Assche cutting the skinhead aggression with the melancholic gothic whimsy of The Cure. Deconstructed cricket jumpers graced the Japanese label Facetasm's show and Walter Van Beirendonck embraced almost every sartorial icon of an eternal England from boating blazers to brogues and even Morris men folk dancers.

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Four things we’ve learned from Paris men’s fashion week

Dior tough guys hot on Paris catwalk

Dior, the French fashion house known for the dreamy beauty of its clothes, showed a new much tougher side in its Paris menswear show Saturday. It's wasn't quite skinhead chic but it wasn't far from it with every trope in the punk wardrobe from string vests to dangling trouser braces referenced, invariably set off by big Dr Marten-style boots. Dark, moody and menacing, there was even something slightly S&M in the way that Dior's Belgium-born designer Kris Van Assche managed to turn the braces into chest armour-cum-jewellery.

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Dior tough guys hot on Paris catwalk

Hollywood and the Fashion World Mourn Fashion Photographer Bill Cunningham

Designers, models and ‘New York Times’ colleagues pay tribute to the late photographer.

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Hollywood and the Fashion World Mourn Fashion Photographer Bill Cunningham