JD.com to host New York Fashion Week show
By Change seems to be certainly a foot at Fashion Week as Chinese online giant JD.com is set to host a catwalk show during New York Fashion Week this month. The runway show, which follows on the from the retailer’s JD Fashion Show during Milan Fashion Week last autumn, is set to showcase collections from five […]
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Burberry backlash after unveiling Beckham campaign
London – We are so used to seeing celebrities front fashion campaigns that nobody, not even professional models, bat an eyelid when their faces are hired to sell major advertising projects or walk the catwalk during fashion week. Nor do we hear so much as a murmur when a celebrity launches their own fashion label, […]
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The winner of the Global Denim Awards 2015 is… Sartoria Diletto & Candiani Denim
“And the winner of the 2015 Global Denim Awards is… Sanatoria Diletto and Candiani Denim!” announced Marietta Hoitink, founder of HTNK to the hall filled with over 750 denim professionals Thursday night at Amsterdam’s Westergasfabriek. The team was named the victor from a group of who were paired with eight progressive denim mills in order […]
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The Best Christmas Campaigns 2015
London – The festive season is very much in full swing, the Christmas trees have been decorated, the lights switched on, and the fabulous holiday windows have been revealed and the high street is hoping that they’ve come up with the very best advertising campaign to drive footfall and increase sales. Here at FashionUnited we […]
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Footwear’s Unstoppable Trend: The Ugly Shoe
Trends can often lead to some serious fashion faux pas (think Britney and Justin’s take on double denim); fortunately though, these hiccups are short lived in apparel and move on with the next trend. However, the moment where one questions “what was I thinking?” never seems to arrive when it comes to footwear. Regardless of […]
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8DIX teams up with PETA for collaboration
Former design assistant to Vivienne Westwood, Luca Marchetto and former milliner to Stephen Jones, Jordan Bowen, otherwise known as the design duo behind the London-based urban brand 8DIX, have teamed up animal rights organisation PETA to launch an exclusive line of t-shirts. With a cheeky tagline aimed to encourage consumers to ‘try vegan’ each t-shirt […]
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The emerging designers putting Colombia on the fashion map
For years, Colombia has been working hard to shed its former reputation. Once commonly thought of as the world’s capital of cocaine, with the Medellin drug cartel led by the infamous Pablo Escobar and the FARC rebels guerrillas painting the streets red, this aged image of a country which is currently South America’s third largest […]
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France clamps down on ultra-thin models with new bill
French lawmakers on Thursday adopted a bill forcing ultra-thin models to furnish a doctor’s certificate confirming they are healthy and magazines that Photoshop their silhouette to tag the images as “touched up”. The bill stipulates that models must obtain a medical certificate stating that their health, “assessed in particular in terms of body mass index, […]
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Trousers are enlarged as Paris Men’s fashion gets supersized
Click:chinese lantern film prop The world is about to go all baggy. As stock markets tumble and economists talk of more tightening of belts, fashion has gone supersized, with Paris catwalks overflowing Wednesday with outsized overcoats and baggy trousers. If the first day of the menswear catwalks shows is anything to go by, men will […]
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Three trends to watch out for following London Collections: Men
As the fashion telescope swivels its focus from London to Florence, where menswear trade fair Pitti Uomo kicks off, FashionUnited takes a minute to reflect on the shows and presentations held at the new show space, Victoria House, in order to gauge what are some of the strongest themes men can expect to be faced […]
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