Presented at Paris Fashion Week 2007 and Paris Haute Couture Week in 2008.

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It is Fashion Week in Paris right about now, but perhaps we take a look at the markets to get a glimpse of the hot and not so hot trends for the year.

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Last year Kanye West showed his first fashion collection at Paris Fashion Week.

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We were also surprised to see Karl Lagerfeld line Chanel's runway with wind turbines and solar panels in a preview of Spring 2013 Paris Fashion Week.

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In 1973, she officially launched the Jil Sander label and within a few years had begun showing her collections during Paris fashion week, but no one much noticed.

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The big luxury houses will dominate Paris's fashion week, with 99 shows, where attention will turn to Christian Dior's Raf Simons and Saint Laurent's Hedi Slimane.

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Both labels are using every channel necessary to push their labels in the global market: from being represented by showrooms in Paris and New York and presenting their wares at Fashion Week, to getting picked up by major international retailers and e-tailers and garnering press coverage in influential international media.

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The boom is good news for Dakar Fashion Week founder Ndiaye, who hopes the show will one day reach the heights of Paris and New York -- yet with a distinctly African style.

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Pejic was notably absent during New York Fashion Week (February 9-16) because of a scheduling conflict with a Jean Paul Gaultier campaign shoot in Paris.

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