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Elizabeth Paton
@LizziePaton
@FT fashion editor. DMs are open for tips.
London
Joined February 2011
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    🚨 Some personal news…thrilled to be (re)joining the @FT this summer as Fashion Editor after a wonderful run at @nytimes 🚨
    The @FT has appointed Elizabeth Paton as fashion editor to oversee its extensive coverage of fashion and style: on.ft.com/45CE1rB
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    There was a catwalk crasher during the finale @CHANEL and I couldn’t stop laughing because the hapless security guards couldn’t spot her in the line-up. #ParisFashionWeek
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    A show to remember. For the 20th anniversary of the death of Gianni @Versace, the 90s supermodels came out of retirement and it was 💥💥💥 #MFW
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    Further incredible scenes @CHANEL when @gigihadid confronted the runway crasher and escorted her off the catwalk! #ParisFashionWeek
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    The final #Chanel set to be created by Karl Lagerfeld prior to his death last month. A full 360 Swiss alpine village complete with chalets, snowdrifts and wealthy ladies in furs. #ChanelintheSnow
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    Her husband Kanye West has Yeezy. Her little sister ⁦@KylieJenner⁩ has Kylie Cosmetics. Will shapewear company @Skims be the first $1 billion business for the family’s original money tree ⁦@KimKardashian? Great profile by ⁦@jtes⁩ —
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    Pop ‘n’ Go dressing at the @csm_news graduate show tonight, courtesy of student Fredrik Tjaerandsen. 🎈🎈🎈
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    Good morning from Paris, where @CHANEL presented it’s first #ChanelCruise show since the death of Karl Lagerfeld in February - an homage to elegant train travel where guests sat on platforms signed Venice, Antibes and Rome.
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    Next to no one is doing investigations into luxury power players anymore. This from @business about Loro Piana, the wild popularity of $9000 ‘quiet luxury’ sweaters and what trickles down to the bottom of the supply chain is a great one. bloomberg.com/features/2024-…
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    ICYMI - Louis Vuitton built a 100,000 square ft factory in Texas to make its monogrammed canvas and leather handbags for the US market (+ avoid getting caught up in those pesky trade wars). Will Made in the USA labels hold the same cache for those with a taste for French luxury?
    Michael Burke, ceo of ⁦@LouisVuitton⁩, meets an LV cow. There is also a bull in the herd, and he is also named Michael.
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    This is a very common practice in the luxury industry (and in fact the entire fashion sector). Burberry is far from alone.
    Burberry burns bags, clothes and perfume worth millions bbc.in/2zRZqQd
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    ICYMI: @rihanna had her #FENTYxPUMA show; the theme was high school kids gone bad - French National Library had never seen anything like it.
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    This is high above the Fiordland National Park in New Zealand today. Do you see that pinkish brown hue to the snow? That’s fallen ash from the Australian bush fires that are burning 2000km away. #AustralianFires
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    .@ladygaga in Schiaparelli couture to sing the 🇺🇸 national anthem, finished with a gilded dove of peace brooch. Daniel Roseberry, creative director of the brand, is American.