Ferragamo honored with commemorative stamp
By Salvatore Ferragamo has received a great honor. They are now a fashion brand with a stamp. The Italian luxury label was honored in Florence on Monday, November 30 with a stamp to commemorate their 100th anniversary of their collaboration with Hollywood. The stamp features an image of a shoe design from Ferragamo’s archives that they […]
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Kering is London College of Fashion’s Sustainable Partner 2015
The efforts that luxury fashion group Kering has made to educate students on sustainability in the fashion industry have been rewarded. The company received the London College of Fashion (LCF) Sustainable Partner Award, as they have been educating students on this topic since partnering with the school’s Centre for Sustainable Fashion in October 2014. As […]
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Paris Men’s Fashion Week ponders modern machismo
Once in times of trouble, males were expected to man up and put on uniforms. But the big theme so far of this week’s Paris menswear collections are clothes that offer comfort and protection, with supersized jackets to hide inside and cocooning coats you might wrap a baby in. Faced with a world looking ever […]
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Christopher Raeburn: "I am a designer first, making a considerate choice"
“I am a designer first, making a considerate choice – although not everything I do is recycled or sustainable” explained Christopher Raeburn to FashionUnited on his latest Spring/Summer ‘16 collection and ongoing collaboration with Avery Dennison RBIS, retail branding and solutions service. The award-winning London Fashion Week designer, best known his remade, deconstructed and reworked […]
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David Bowie: Desperately Seeking the Goon Squad
Reading the tributes these past few days to David Bowie, in particular those extolling his fashion icon status, it occurs to me with sadness how little he features in my classroom. Or, more to the point, how little a presence he seems to have in my students’ lives. (I will refer to Bowie in the […]
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Inditex donates money to Water.org
London – Zara owner Inditex is donating 3.7 million euros (4 million dollars) to Water.org to help improve access to safe water and sanitation in developing areas with scarce resources. The donation will see Inditex providing 3 million euros (3.2 million dollars) for more than 33,000 microloans to help empower people with low incomes in […]
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Rihanna puts the sexy into sweats in NY runway debut
Barbadian superstar Rihanna, feted as much for her daring style as her vocal chords, closed out day two of New York Fashion Week by unveiling a debut collection for Puma that put the sexy into sweatpants. Following in the footsteps of music star Kanye West, who on Friday booked out Madison Square Garden to parade […]
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World leaders to don pineapple shirts in Philippines
Star Trek suits are out and pineapple shirts are in as the Philippines seeks to keep the world’s most powerful leaders off the list of global summit fashion train wrecks. Boldly ignoring the ridicule levelled at past costumes, the Philippines is continuing the spotty tradition of dressing the heads of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) […]
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River Island x Sibling
London Fashion Week favourites Sibling have been confirmed as the newest designer label to collaborate with high street retailer River Island as part of its Design Forum initiative. Sibling, co-designed by Cozette McCreery and Sid Bryan since their design partner and friend, Joe Bates, sadly passed away earlier this year, join a growing list of […]
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Bloggers in Business: What Olivia Did
Over the past years fashion bloggers have become an intricate part of the industry’s current landscape. But blogging itself has evolved with time as well and become a full-time pursuit for many and become a complex blend of content, marketing and branding. Never before has a fashion blogger’s influence reached as far or as wide, […]
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