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French fashion house Chanel appoints Unilever executive Leena Nair as CEO

Nair, an alumnus of XLRI Jamshedpur, had joined HUL, Unilever's Indian subsidiary in 1992 and worked for 30 years.

Drones, an Anna Wintour puppet, projections: Inside brands' experiments with tech for fashion weeks

In 2014, Fendi sent three drones down the runway to film a show. The move created excitement, but also raised concerns related to hyper-surveillance.

As Chanel No 5 completes 100 years, a look at the iconic fragrance's journey so far

An iconic brand has five key elements: it is aspirational, with strong visual identity and persona, it is omnipresent throughout society, and consumers feel a personal connection with it. Chanel No 5 ticks all these boxes.

Golden Globes 2021: Tina Fey, Amy Poehler host virtual ceremony from different venues; nominees Zoom in from around the world

Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, both dressed in black to open the show, joked about the unusual set up and the distance between them, with Fey pretending to stroke Poehler’s hair through their screens.

2020, the year of the fashion film: As a pandemic forced an industry reckoning, a novel medium made an impact

The fashion film is an interesting anomaly — not an ad film, not a feature film, perhaps a niche subset of the short film genre.

British model Stella Tennant, muse to designers like Karl Lagerfeld, dies at 50

The granddaughter of the 11th Duke of Devonshire Andrew Cavendish and his wife Deborah Mitford of a glamorous, unconventional aristocratic family, Tennant was one of the leading British models of the 1990s.

Dior and Chanel go online, but can digital couture shows become a workable fashion model?

But what this whole digital experiment ultimately revealed is that, though music and movies have been using fashion to their own ends for decades now, reversing the equation doesn’t really work.

Karl Lagerfeld's death signals the end of an era in grandeur and spectacle — and misogynistic, thin fashion

Karl Lagerfeld epitomised everything that (today) would be considered “wrong” with the fashion industry. But he also epitomised its voracious appetite for success, for global stature, for perfection, for reinvention season after season after season, for spectacle.

Chanel Paris show gatecrasher says Gigi Hadid didn't understand her 'comic approach to prank'

At the Paris Fashion Week on Tuesday, supermodel Gigi Hadid herded an gatecrasher Marie S’Infiltre off the runway with gusto.

Paris Haute Couture Fashion Week 2019 stuns with extraordinary fashion craftsmanship

The Paris Fall/Winter 2019-20 Haute Couture Week ran from 1 July to 4 July. It was attended by designers, major fashion houses, and celebrities, with a runway that featured colour, print, and stunningly unique craftsmanship.