Paris: Paris Women’s Fashion Week began to scrap itself on Monday for climate and animal law protests and with one of the greatest star designers – Virgil Abloh – was missing.
Animal rights group Peta also took to the streets for the first show that sets the love affair of fashion with leather aan de Kaak, and said that Tanneries belonged to the world’s worst polluters.
Activists got “poisonous mud” on their heads in front of the Eiffel Tower to hammer home that “leather is a dirty thing”.
“The learning industry produces dangerously toxic waste and is responsible for the death of more than a billion animals a year to produce fashion accessories that destroy the planet,” Marie-Morganane Jeanneau told AFP.
Another group of rights, one voice, published an undercover video of “terrible circumstances” on a mink farm in France, where they said that a maximum of five animals were stored in every small, dirty cage.
Earlier this month, Doving -Rebellie -activists had called London Fashion Week to be fully canceled because of the “Climate Emergency” and the damage caused by the industry.
Other protests are probably in Paris during the nine-day marathon of the summer shows of the Spring Response the world’s largest and most important fashion week.
But there were signs that the environmental message is coming through.
Many of the large luxury brands leave fur and 150 brands under the leadership of Chanel, Hermes and the French luxury huge barrier – owners of Gucci, Saint Laurent and Balenciaga – registered for a “fashion pact” last month to reduce their impact on the environment.
Although the largest conglomerate, LVMH, does not have, Dior – who is owned by the group – has made sustainable development the core of his show on Tuesday.
The 160 trees that will be the center of his “Inclusive Garden” show are then repeated in three new urban gardens in the French capital.
However, Paris will be without Abloh, the hyperactive American streetwear guru behind broken white, which has succeeded in getting the headlines on both men’s and women’s runways in the past year.
The 38-year-old who also designs the men’s clothing line of Louis Vuitton and with Nike and IKEA works for forced to curb his schedule for manic globe for “health reasons”.
With his doctor who advises him not to travel, Abloh stays at home in Chicago, where a retrospective of his work in the Museum of Contemporary Art of the city has been expanded after breaking cash register records.
“Being committed is not working,” the architect-turned designer to Vogue confessed in a remarkably frank admission in an industry where creative burnout is something of a taboo.
Abloh’s off-white show from Paris will take place without him on Thursday.
Last week the other big new star of Paris, Demna Gvasalia, Vetments, the rebellious Uber HIP brand stopped where he made his name like the Bad Boy of Fashion.
But Gvasalia is staying in Balenciaga, the venerable Luxury label of Paris that he has also shaken, the brand told AFP.
Kiminte Kimhekim, who cuts his teeth in Balenciaga, will present a few hours on Monday before another Korean newcomer, Rokh, will present his second collection.
Kimhekim – known for its use of gigantic arches – has already attracted the attention of Hollywood star and fashion icon Elle Fanning, who last month wore a pink transparent dress with a giant bow for the premiere of her new film “Maleficent: Mistress of Evil”.
He said AFP that his show – brutally “buy it as you can” call it – the Chima, the long traditional Korean skirt, combines with the high school uniforms that are worn there, seasoned with an extra touch of “provocation”.
Colleague Korean skirt Hwang, a protector of the former maker Phoebe Philo, shares a lot of the discreet modern chic of the British designer.
After he has deconstructed the classic wardrobe of Trenchcoats and Packs in his debut Paris Rokh show, this time he goes outside with a show he calls “Field Trip”.
The other newcomer is the Japanese designer Maiko Kurogouchi, who eight years after leaving the “King of Pleats” Issey Miyake, brings her own Mame label to Pari
