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Front Row at Christian Dior F/W 2010, see more of the power scene at RDuJour

Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy - LVMH - is the world's largest luxury conglomerate overseeing 60 different brands from its Paris headquarters. The merger between the luxury leather goods company Louis Vuitton and the liquor company Moet Hennessy took place in 1987 with CEO Bernard Arnault slowly acquiring luxury fashion houses. Arnault is one of the wealthiest men in the world with his assets residing largely in LVMH shares. His influence is compounded by his massive art collection, one of the most significant in the world, which led to the creation of Louis Vuitton Espace Culturel and the development of his own contemporary art space in Paris. Arnault first acquired Dior, which now accounts for 42% of LVMH's holding shares although Louis Vuitton accounts for 80% of profit. The chart below shows the timing of development. When you own the company you can ask Galliano to personally design your daughter's wedding dress and have Lagerfeld take the photos. The massive extent ...

by Simone Miller S 2000 “Hussein Chalayan, Fashon and Technology” : This article was first published in Fashion Theory , Volume 6, Number 4 in 2002 but was published again in 2009 in Design Studies, A Reader . Both are published by Berg, a company that publishes volumes of academics on and analysis of fashion. The article deals mostly with Hussein Chalayan’s Remote Control Dress from Spring/Summer 2000. Author: Bradley Quinn is a journalist and author. Frequently, his writing is about fashion and technology, architecture or other aspects of design. Chalayan's student exhibition The Tangent Flows, 1993, buried in his back yard then presented The article’s approach is mainly to analyze fashion as a form, focusing specifically on Hussein Chalayan’s Remote Control Dress but also referencing other parts of Hussein Chalayan’s body of work. Bradley Quinn seems most interested in fashion, especially technologically enhanced fashion, and its relationship with the human body. Thoug...

by Angela Marzan Yuniya Kawamura’s “The Japanese Revolution in Paris Fashion”: It was first published in 2004 in Fashion Theory, Volume 8, Issue 2 . The author is an assistant professor of sociology at FIT. She is also professionally trained as a fashion designer and a patternmaker at Bunka School of Fashion in Japan, Kingston Polytechnic in England, and FIT. She completed her Ph.D. dissertation at Columbia University. At the time the article was published, Kawamura was studying Japanese street style in New York and Japan. Kenzo F 2009 The article “adopts a production-of-culture theoretical approach” (195). It discusses the introduction of Japanese designers into the French fashion industry from 1970 to 2003, during a time when haute couture was losing its primary clientele. Of particular interest are the designers and their relationship to the French fashion system. The designers that she speaks of are Rei Kawakubo, Issey Miyake, Yohji Yamamoto, Hanae Mori, and Kenzo . ...