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The Lebanese women’s ready-to-wear label Renaissance Renaissance has been chosen to join the latest Net-A-Porter Vanguard Programme.
Chosen from countless emerging fashion brands from across the world, the Beirut label, founded by Cynthia Merhej in 2016, is one of four start-ups to make the cut.
The Net-A-Porter programme began in 2018 in a bid to help hothouse emerging talent. A look from Lebanese label Renaissance Renaissance. Courtesy Renaissance Renaissance
What is Renaissance Renaissance?
Merhej studied at the Royal College of Art and Central Saint Martins in London, later returning to Beirut to set up her brand. This made her the third generation of women in her family to open their own atelier.
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Kerby Jean-Raymond, founder of the label Pyer Moss, is set to make history this summer as the first black American designer invited to show at Paris Haute Couture Week.
Hand-picked by the notoriously particular governing body, Chambre
Syndicale, Jean-Raymond will now join the ranks of Elie Saab, Chanel, Christian Dior, Valentino and
Zuhair Murad at the highly anticipated autumn 2021 couture shows, which will take place in July.
The shows are expected to be held in front of a
physical audience, for the first time since the onset of the pandemic.
Who is Kerby Jean-Raymond?
The Haitian-American designer started his fashion career interning for Theory and Marchesa, before acting as a freelance designer for Kenneth Cole, Badgley Mischka and Marc Jacobs.
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To mark the 100th birthday of the house of Gucci, the company has launched an expansive exhibition in the city where it all started, Florence.
Called Archetypes, the exhibition at Gucci Garden on the city’s Piazza della Signoria is a celebration of the latest chapter in the Gucci story, which began in 1921 when Guccio Gucci began selling high-end travel bags. The interior of a New York subway for the autumn / winter 2015 Urban Daydream collection. Courtesy Gucci
The brand is now under the creative direction of Alessandro Michele, who during his short tenure – just six and a half years – has upended the codes of the house, shifting it from being a label known for being expensive but dull, to a dazzling, mismatched celebration of fashion.