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With fashionistas baking in a mascara-melting heatwave and Italy's Fendi set to raise hackles with an all-fur collection, Paris Fashion Week, which started on Sunday, may prove a tad too haute to handle.
High-fashion designers are unveiling their autumn and winter collections over five days in Paris that kicked off with shows by Russian couturier Ulyana Sergeenko and Dutch designer Ilja Visser.
But the highlight of the extravaganza will be German fashion legend Karl Lagerfeld's collection celebrating his 50 years working for Fendi, which has hailed the "longest relationship between a designer and a fashion house".
The show tomorrow will be entirely "haute fourrure" or, couture fur - a material the luxury fashion brand has never shied away from.
French film icon and passionate animal activist Brigitte Bardot has already shown her disapproval by writing a letter to Choupette Lagerfeld, the designer's pampered feline companion.
Bardot appealed to the cat - who has become famous with 48,000 Twitter followers - to "purr in the ear" of her master and save her "furry friends".
Lagerfeld has often said that while he is very sympathetic to the anti-fur cause, doing away with the industry would cause a lot of people to lose their jobs.
"For me, as long as people eat meat and wear leather, I don't get the message," he told The New York Times in a recent interview, adding however that he preferred not to think about how the animals died.
The indefatigable Lagerfeld, 81, will also be presenting his collection for Chanel, the fashion house that is perhaps the most synonymous with Paris's reputation for glamour and known for spectacular staging.
In total some 30 designers will present the Haute Couture shows seen only in the City of Light.
The designation is protected by French law and attributed exclusively by the ministry of industry to 14 houses whose high-end clothes are entirely made by hand and tailored to each client.
The glitterati was yesterday expected to be glued to the show by Schiaparelli as French designer Bertrand Guyon makes his debut as style director for the legendary house founded in 1930.


Lagerfeld all-fur collection is set to raise hackles at Paris Fashion Week

German designer Karl Lagerfeld appears at the end of his Autumn/Winter 2015/2016 women's ready-to-wear collection for French fashion house Chanel during Paris Fashion Week on March 10, 2015. Photo: Reuters

Fendi's latest fur collection

One of the designs of Fendi's latest fur collection

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Designers are unveiling their autumn and winter offerings over five days at Paris Fashion Week
