lifestyle THURSDAY, JANUARY 16, 2014 Paris fashion week kicks off with menswear fter London and Nichanian explained that Milan, men’s fashion men’s fashion is “less codi- Ahits Parisian runways fied than before.” “In some Models pose yesterday, with some 50 sectors, men are no longer beside French shows planned as more and forced to wear suits to fashion designer more European and Asian work,” she said, pointing out Lucien Pellat houses battle to get a slot that different styles were Finnet during the amid rising interest in this now blending together. presentation of his section of the market. Emerging menswear- men’s fall-winter Kickstarting Paris fashion only brands are also attract- 2014-2015 fashion week before bowing out on ing more and more atten- collection, in Paris Sunday to make way for tion, such as France’s AMI, yesterday. — AP haute couture, houses such founded by Alexandre as Kenzo and Hermes will Mattiussi, who previously showcase their collections worked for Dior, Givenchy for men, an increasing and Marc Jacobs. On number of whom no longer A model wears a creation by French fashion designer Sunday evening, after the buy clothes when they Lucien Pellat Finnet during his men’s fall-winter 2014- Saint Laurent show by cre- need to but when they 2015 fashion collection presented yesterday. — AP ative director Hedi Slimane, want to. menswear gives way to six “The market for men has Yesterday, France’s Carven, US designer Rick Owens, days of haute couture dur- developed a lot, especially Valentino and Belgium’s Raf Louis Vuitton, Japan’s Yohji ing which Italy’s legendary in the past two or three Simons-who created his Yamamoto and Dries Van Schiaparelli house makes a A model presents years,” said Veronique collection in tandem with Noten will take over on comeback more than 40 a creation of Anja Nichanian, Hermes’ US artist Sterling Ruby-hit Thursday. “Three years ago, years after the death of its Gockel’s Autumn menswear creative director, the runways in some of the we had three days of shows. founder. Versace kicks off Winter 2014 who will showcase her col- most beautiful places of the Now, we have five,” said on Sunday, and the collection during lection on Saturday French capital, in the Didier Grumbach, head of Schiaparelli show by brand the Mercedes evening. “Now, they (men) National School of Fine Arts the French Couture new creative director Marco Benz Fashion have the same buying or near the Place Vendome, Federation, amid growing Zanini gets underway on Week impulses as women.” the epitome of luxury. interest for men’s fashion. Monday morning. — AFP yesterday. — AP Britain television stars in court to face sex charges hree ageing stars of British televi- girl and to secure her unquestioning “young women who were very vulner- sion appeared in separate courts loyalty. “A sort of grooming, as we able”. The youngest of his alleged vic- TTuesday, all accused of raping or would nowadays call it,” added the tims says she was 15 when Travis assaulting women and young girls. prosecutor. Roache denies five counts groped her breasts and pinned her to Australian entertainer Rolf Harris, TV of indecent assault and two counts of her seat while in his trailer at a concert soap star William Roache and veteran rape involving five girls aged between by the pop group Showaddywaddy in presenter Dave Lee Travis deny the 11 or 12 and 16. 1978. charges against them, most of which Meanwhile prosecutors told the tri- Another accuser said she was BERLIN: A model date back several decades. Roache, 81, al of Dave Lee Travis that the former groped by Travis while working at a presents a cre- is the world’s longest-serving soap star, BBC star had assaulted young women theatre where he was performing as ation of fashion having played character Ken Barlow in while live on television and in his radio the “evil wizard” in the pantomime label Bagaz’ Aladdin. The jury was told that Travis Autumn Winter pulled his hand out of her trousers 2014 collection when he heard a member of the come- during the dy duo the Chuckle Brothers, who Mercedes Benz were also performing in the pan- Fashion Week in tomime, walking past. Travis spent 25 Berlin yesterday. years presenting on BBC Radio 1, and — AP photos also hosted a music request show on the BBC World Service. Travis is accused of 13 counts of indecent assault between 1976 and 2003, and one count of sexual assault in 2008. In London, Australian-born Harris denied 12 counts of indecent assault. All except one of the cases involve women who were aged under 16, the age of sexual consent in Britain. The 83-year-old musician, presenter and artist-who once painted a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II and who has been honored by both Britain and his native British actor William Roache (2nd left), who plays Ken Barlow in television Australia-has yet to make a plea on drama Coronation Street arrives at Preston Crown Court in Preston, north- four additional charges of making an west England. — AFP indecent image of a child in 2012. Harris is due to go on trial on April the ITV show “Coronation Street” since studio. The 68-year-old, one of the 30 accused of assaulting four women its first episode in 1960. biggest names in British broadcasting between 1968 and 1986. One of the As his trial in Preston, northwest during the 1970s and 1980s, denies charges relates to a girl who was only England got under way Tuesday, pros- assaulting 11 women, one of whom seven or eight at the time of the ecutors claimed Roache used his fame says she was underage at the time. The alleged assault. Travis and Harris are to rape or sexually assault five girls jury at London’s Southwark Crown among several ageing celebrities who were aged as young as 11 at the Court was shown footage of Travis arrested under Operation Yewtree, the time, in the 1960s and 1970s. “Favor or allegedly putting his hand up a young British police probe into historical condemn him on the evidence, not woman’s skirt as he introduced a song abuse set up in the wake of revelations because he plays Ken Barlow,” prosecu- by The Smurfs on the TV show “Top of that the late BBC star Jimmy Savile was tor Anne Whyte warned the jury. the Pops” in 1978. a prolific sex offender. Roache was not Whyte said Roache had attacked one Prosecutor Miranda Moore said arrested as part of the operation. of the girls in a toilet before sending Travis, appearing in court under his Comedian Freddie Starr, 71, was arrest- her a signed photograph, which was real name David Patrick Griffin, was an ed for a third time on Tuesday under “designed to impress a young school- “opportunist” who had targeted Operation Yewtree, police said. — AFP Designer Anja Gockel (left) receives applause after the presentation of her Autumn Winter 2014 collection New series - Transformers during the Mercedes Benz Fashion Week yesterday. and Ghostbusters mix up India woos foreign filmmakers t’s not every day you stumble across transforming alien robots, sewer-dwelling mutant ninja turtles, ghost hunters and conspiracy theorists trying to track them ndia has simplified rules for foreign moviemakers want- shoot movies in the picturesque, revolt-hit regions of Idown amid a nationwide contagion. Unless it’s in the pages of IDW Publishing’s ing to film in the country and is promising speedy Indian Kashmir and the northeast as well as in sensitive “X-Files: Conspiracy,” a sprawling six-part story that sees the Lone Gunmen trio Iapproval of projects, after frustrating redtape and delays border belts. attempting to blow wide open rumors of Transformers, Ghostbusters and Teenage were blamed for crews shooting elsewhere. The ministry of Despite the simplification, it was not clear whether the Mutant Ninja Turtles - among others - to a public that has been kept in the dark. information and broadcasting said it was “inviting” foreign new rules would change India’s sensitivity to scenes that it Writer Paul Crilley, who is writing the John Stanisci-illustrated and Miran Kim- filmmakers to make their movies in India-”a country with feels show the country in an unfavorable light. In 2012, colored crossover, said the intrigue begins with a WikiLeaks file in the Lone locations of untold beauty”. “We have simplified the proce- India hit the headlines when it asked makers of the recent Gunmen’s email while, at the same time, FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully are dure for shooting of films by foreigners in India,” the min- James Bond hit “Skyfall” to change a stunt showing people investigating a rapidly spreading contagion. The six-issue event launches istry of information and broadcasting said on its website. travelling on train rooftops, saying it would depict the Wednesday with “X-Files: Conspiracy” No. 1 and includes four issues that focus on “Your permission to shoot should not take more than state-run railway in a poor light. The film in the end was the Ghostbusters, The Crow, Transformers and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles three weeks to process,” an undated notice on the website not made in India due to various problems including before concluding with “X-Files: Conspiracy” No. 2. “A mysterious Wikileaks file said yesterday. The move comes after global business con- bureaucratic delays, according to media reports, and was appears in (Richard) Langly’s inbox, and, as the Lone Gunmen start to decode sultancy Ernst and Young in a report last year called India’s shot in Turkey, Japan and Scotland among other locations, them, they realize the files are about events that haven’t actually happened yet,” lack of simplified clearance for filming a “primary obstacle” reports said.