VIDEO: Emanuel Ungaro S/S 2015 FIRST LOOK at Paris Fashion Week

Check out the Emanuel Ungaro Spring/Summer 2015 runway show during Paris Fashion Week and hear from the designer as well as top stylists.

About Emanuel Ungaro:

Emanuel Ungaro, Italian by heritage but born and raised in France, learned to sew from his father. By his mid-twenties, he was designing at Balenciaga before moving on to Courrèges. In 1965, he launched his own boutique and label in Paris. Ladies flocked to him for body-skimming silhouettes, and within a few decades the line expanded to include menswear, accessories, and several fragrances.

Struggles over the four-decade history include financial takeovers, first by the Ferragamo Group in 1996 and then investment firm Global Asset Capital in 2003, as well as a revolving door of head designers after Ungaro's initial successor, Giambattista Valli. Designers Peter Dundas and Vincent Darre each lasted less than two seasons, and hopes were high for Colombian Esteban Cortazar, appointed at the tender age of 23, to reinfuse the brand with Latin sensuality to attract a whole new generation of fashionistas. But in the summer of 2009, Cortazar left Ungaro unwilling to agree to CEO Mounir Moufarrige's idea to bring Lindsay Lohan on to the creative team. Spanish designer Estrella Archs took the reigns with Lohan acting as artistic advisor, showing a Spring 2010 collection of nipple pasties and heart motifs that was scoffed at by the press. Archs left the label in April 2010 and was immediately replaced by Giles Deacon. One week later, menswear designer Franck Boclet announced his departure from the company after a three-year tenure.

Currently the menswear runway collection is on hold with the possibility of relaunching it in the future. Giles' Spring 2011 debut featured "legitimate underwear, a sense of sanity, cars full of flowers, and most important, clothes that exhibited design merit," a huge coup for the label.