Those international Vogues are fast becoming the action heroes of the fashion world.
Only last week they banded together to declare war on underage models, and now Vogue India has now announced it is following in the footsteps of American Vogue, British Vogue, and Italian Vogue and creating its own Fashion Fund initiative to promote the businesses of young Indian designers. Go team!
Any regular reader of this blog knows that my opinion of fashion film shorts is not exactly sky-high; of all the ones produced by this industry recently as it discovered the joys of YouTube and its gazillion viewers, only one has really worked. That’s because it walked a perfect line between self-mockery and great fun, and was not obsessed with framing its products perfectly in the camera’s eye. (The film of which I speak features models wearing Lanvin and dancing to Pit Bull.)
So I admit: when Cartier called me to tell me about its new commercial, my first reaction was (and I’m not proud of this, but we are going for full disclosure here): oh, no. Not again. Ergghh. And so on. But I took myself off to the unveiling at the Mini Palais restaurant in Paris anyway, sat myself in the plush velvet seat and prepared to grit my teeth.
Manish Arora collection - Catwalking.com
So news arrives that the Puig Group, the Spanish beauty/fashion conglomerate that owns the fragrances and fashion of Carolina Herrera, Nina Ricci and Paco Rabanne, as well as other super-lucrative scents, is relaunching Paco’s ready-to-wear under creative director Manish Arora. Mr Arora is the only Indian fashion designer who shows in Paris, and he’s known for his use of colour, and interesting (some might say challenging) materials. Paco Rabanne has been on ice as a fashion brand since the departure of Patrick Robinson (now at the Gap) a few years ago.
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Vanessa has been the FT’s fashion editor since 2003, and is based in New York, though she lived in London for 12 years.
