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Lydia Maurer is Artistic Director of Paris label Paco Rabanne Women’s Ready-to-WearThe 29-year-old replaced Indian fashion designer Manish Arora in JunePrior to that she worked for Givenchy and on Martine Sitbon’s Rue de Mail labelThe German designer has just shown her first collection at Paris Fashion Week Making it to the top in one of the toughest and most fickle industries in the world, that of fashion design, requires a careful balance of knowing your own essence and giving the public what they expect.That’s according to Paco Rabanne’s Artistic Director Lydia Maurer, who claims one of the greatest challenges of [...]

Juliet Sandler dresses in the latest $ 650 dresses and $ 400 shoes from Parisian fashion house Lanvin. Juliet is 3. Her mother, Dara Sandler, says she dresses her daughter in the latest fashions because Juliet is a reflection of her – even though her daughter can’t spell the names of the designers, let alone pay for their clothes. “I dress my daughter exactly the way I dress myself,” says the 33-year-old Manhattan mother, who spent $ 10,000 for her daughter’s summer wardrobe. She plans to spend a few thousand dollars more for fall. Top fashion designers are pushing more [...]