Nostalgia-tinged evening wear, fantasy-fuelled escapism and messages about world peace featured during a packed Paris Couture Week ... French designer Franck Sorbier tackled war and peace directly ...

Haute couture is an enigma to most ... “Barry Lyndon”, Virginia Woolf’s 1928 novel “Orlando” and Umberto Eco’s 2009 literary anthology “The Infinity of Lists”.

Nostalgia-tinged evening wear, fantasy-fuelled escapism and messages about world peace featured during a packed Paris Couture Week ... French designer Franck Sorbier tackled war and peace directly ...

A model presents a creation for Germanier during the Women’s Haute-Couture Spring/Summer 2025 Fashion Week ... conflicts rage from Ukraine to Congo and Sudan, French designer Franck Sorbier tackled ...

Franck Sorbier's show had a war and peace theme. Photo: Julien de Rosa / AFP Source: AFP "The idea is not to get stuck in a bubble of haute couture," he told AFP afterward. "Even though we do haute ...

Paris (AFP) – Nostalgia-tinged evening wear, fantasy-fuelled escapism and messages about world peace featured during a packed Paris Couture Week that also saw new changes on fashion's artistic ...

Elsewhere on Wednesday, Italian brand Valentino, Dutch duo Victor & Rolf and French designer Franck Sorbier showcased their Spring/Summer 2025 collections during Haute Couture Week, with Jean-Paul ...

Devenu Grand Couturier en janvier 2005, Franck Sorbier se reconnaît « comme un artisan qui joue avec son imaginaire, son intuition et son savoir-faire. » La couture « doit rester quelque chose ...

Nostalgia-tinged evening wear, fantasy-fuelled escapism and messages about world peace featured during a packed Paris Couture Week that also saw ... French designer Franck Sorbier tackled war and ...

A photo from the Dior haute couture show - Copyright AFP/File ROBERTO SCHMIDT A photo from the Dior haute couture show - Copyright AFP/File ROBERTO SCHMIDT Marine DO ...