Luxury fashion house Dior has confirmed that longtime former artistic director Marc Bohan has died at 97.

The president and CEO of Gucci is stepping down later this year.

The historic courtyards of the Ecole Militaire served as the grand stage for Dior’s men’s show on Friday, a spectacle that played out under the watchful eye of the Eiffel Tower.

Paris is the center of the global luxury industry, with Tuesday the first major day of ready-to-wear shows at Paris Fashion Week.

Images of traditional embroideries and floral paintings adorned the walls of Dior’s celebrity-laden runway homage to Ukraine on the first day of Paris Couture Week.

French actor Gaspard Ulliel has died at 37 after a skiing accident in the Alps.

Paris Fashion Week roared into its second full day in shows that spanned grassy fields, gilded salons and Napoleon’s final resting place.

Paris Fashion Week is back after a coronavirus-related hiatus.

Israeli designer Alber Elbaz, best known for being at the helm of the French fashion house Lanvin for 14 years, has died at 59.

FILE - In this Tuesday, March 24, 2009 file photo, Japanese fashion designer Kenzo Takada poses outside his Paris house. Fashion designer Kenzo Takada dies from COVID-19 complications at age 81 near Paris, spokeswoman and reports said Sunday Oct. 4, 2020. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon, file)PARIS – Kenzo Takada, the iconic French-Japanese fashion designer famed for his jungle-infused designs and free-spirited aesthetic that channeled global travel, has died. The family said in a statement to French media Sunday that Takada died from complications from COVID-19 in a hospital in Neuilly-sur-Seine, near Paris. A public relations officer for Kenzo's brand confirmed that Takada died, but didn't give a cause of death.