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February 19, 2019

Virginie Viard, emerging from Lagerfeld’s shadow to head Chanel

Virginie Viard, who was the late Karl Lagerfeld’s “right and left hand” for more than 30 years, is stepping out from the legendary designer’s formidable shadow to take over as Chanel’s creative director. Chanel announced Viard’s nomination “so that the…
February 19, 2019

Fears grow for European backpackers missing in Australia

Australian police on Wednesday resumed the search two backpackers missing for three days near a beach with rough surf, as hopes dimmed for their rescue. New South Wales Police said the two men, named as 20-year-old Hugo Palmer from England…
February 19, 2019

Macron’s ex-bodyguard detained

The French president’s disgraced former bodyguard, Alexandre Benalla, was Tuesday placed in provisional detention, his lawyer said. Instructing magistrates took the decision after President Emmanuel Macron’s former staffer allegedly broke the conditions of his bail, said lawyer Jacqueline Laffont. Benalla…
February 19, 2019

Thousands demonstrate in Paris following anti-Semitic attacks

Thousands of people, some carrying banners proclaiming ‘That’s enough’, took to the streets of the French capital Tuesday evening to protest a spate of recent anti-Semitic attacks, including the daubing of swastikas on nearly 100 graves in a Jewish cemetery…
February 19, 2019

Search for Sala plane pilot to resume next week: family

A search for the pilot of a plane carrying footballer Emiliano Sala which crashed in the Channel last month is set to resume next week, his family said on Tuesday. David Ibbotson’s family said on a crowdfunding page to raise…
February 19, 2019

Police kill man who injured three in Marseille knife attack

French police on Tuesday shot dead a man who wounded three pedestrians in a knife attack in the southern city of Marseille, officials said. The prosecutor’s office said the attack was not politically-motivated. “It’s a common law assault,” said prosecutor…
February 19, 2019

Fashion mourns death of ‘Kaiser’ Karl Lagerfeld

The fashion world was plunged into mourning on Tuesday by the death of legendary designer Karl Lagerfeld, the rapier-witted dandy who ruled over the industry for half a century. Chanel, the iconic French fashion house he led for nearly four…
February 19, 2019

Could Lagerfeld’s cat Choupette inherit his millions?

Karl Lagerfeld’s cat Choupette was already the most famous cat in fashion. Now the white fluffy Burmese cat that the late fashion designer doted on could be about to become the richest feline on the planet. The pampered eight-year-old puss…
February 19, 2019

Spanish PM to visit France to pay tribute to civil war exiles

Spain’s prime minister is to travel to France this weekend to pay tribute to the 450,000 Spaniards who sought refuge there at the end of the 1936-39 civil war and the Franco dictatorship that followed, his office said Tuesday. On…

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