Vietnam’s Phan Huy became the youngest-ever designer to present a collection on the official Haute Couture calendar in Paris aged just 27 on Thursday, rounding out a week of major fashion debuts and celebrity sightings. Phan thrilled the fashion scene at a venue in western Paris, having had a whirlwind rise into the world’s most exclusive design club
Brussels’ Kanal-Pompidou museum − a major new arts complex built around a modernist former Citroen showroom – has unveiled its inaugural programme this week, 300 days before it is set to open to the public. Billed as the largest new arts development in Europe, the museum will host 10 modern and contemporary exhibitions across five floors for its launch
The amount of plastic surgery performed on men has nearly doubled in less than a decade, new data showed on Thursday. Younger men and those in the Middle East and Latin America have been particularly keen to get these procedures, according to data released at the cosmetic medicine industry’s annual meeting in Paris. Read the full story on Times2.
Taking a classic opera and turning it on its head, Karin Henkel, a leading director in contemporary German theatre, offers a new interpretation of Verdi's masterpiece. In a world dominated by men, where women are exploited and history repeats itself, she explores the fate and sacrifice of a 19th-century heroine through a contemporary female perspective
