{"id":158515,"date":"2016-10-20T13:08:17","date_gmt":"2016-10-20T13:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/paul-smith-to-merge-mens-and-womens-shows-in-paris\/"},"modified":"2021-08-12T13:44:19","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T13:44:19","slug":"paul-smith-to-merge-mens-and-womens-shows-in-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/paul-smith-to-merge-mens-and-womens-shows-in-paris\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Smith to merge men's and women's shows in Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Smith has joined the growing number\u00a0of designers to <strong>merge their men's and women's shows<\/strong>. From next season Sir Paul will show both men's and women's collections in <strong>Paris on 22 January<\/strong> meaning the show will effectively close Men's Fashion Week and kick-off Couture Week.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Until now Paul Smith has shown his men's line in Paris and his<strong> women's line in London<\/strong> but said in a statement that going co-ed (as the men's and women's catwalk merger has been dubbed) was a \"natural progression\" for his business.<\/p>\n<p>\"As an independent business, we can be very agile and address the changes in the evolving market in interesting ways,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m excited to be taking the women\u2019s catwalk show to join the men\u2019s in <strong>the heart of Paris to where it all began in the seventies<\/strong>. Exciting times ahead!\"<\/p>\n<p>The move follows the brand's decision to merge seven sub-brands into just two labels, the Paul Smith luxury mainline and the more contemporary PS by Paul Smith.<\/p>\n<p>Other big names to go co-ed with their catwalks include <strong>Gucci<\/strong>, which will show both men's and women's in Milan from next season and <strong>Burberry<\/strong>, which debuted its first joint men's and women's show in London last month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":146770,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10488,9763,6],"tags":[968,6176,10045,9782,9719,10871],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Paul Smith to merge men&#039;s and women&#039;s shows in Paris - TheIndustry.fashion<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Paul Smith has joined the growing number\u00a0of designers to merge their men&#039;s and women&#039;s shows. 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