F&F joins CoppaFeel! #BraHijack Campaign
By UK Supermarket giant Tesco has joined the CoppaFeel!’s #brahijack campaign with its F&F lingerie range to encourage women across the country to check themselves for signs of breast cancer. “We are really excited to be supporting the CoppaFeel! #brahijack campaign – it’s incredibly important women check themselves regularly for breast cancer because it really does […]
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Karl Lagerfeld likens himself the ‘Joan of Arc of design’
Karl Lagerfeld has likened himself as the ‘Joan of Arc of design’ in an interview with the BBC. Speaking to the BBC he described himself as “the Joan of Arc of design” and said he did not worry about the business side of the industry, nor marketing, nor designing commercial collections, but only “works with […]
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Menswear AW16 catwalk analysis
Now that the men’s autumn winter 2016 collections have been shown on the world’s leading catwalks, the direction for next season has been unveiled. More importantly, what we saw on the catwalks in Paris, Milan and London, was a reinvention of the paragons of menswear: Collections are at once retro and contemporary, utilitarian and luxurious, […]
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Italy’s Fendi sets up home in fascist folly
Luxury fashion company Fendi on Thursday unveiled its new headquarters in a long-abandoned, now renovated architectural folly created by the WWII fascist leader Benito Mussolini in Rome. The building, known by Italians as the Square Colosseum but officially entitled the Palace of Italian Civilsation, was built by Mussolini as the centrepiece of the EUR district […]
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New "smart bra" tracks fitness levels and body needs
Move over smart phone, here comes the smart bra! Montreal-based sportswear startup OMsignal Inc. has developed a sports bra that integrates technology with a cutting-edge biometric fabric to let the wearer access information about her fitness levels (based on her age group) and body needs. The “smartest sports bra ever” (according to OMsignal) was launched […]
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River Island to launch first plus-size collection
British high street retailer River Island is set to launch a new range next spring, named: RI Plus. Unlike its current collection however, this new range is specifically designed to cater to plus-size consumers. “We’re excited about giving great fashion to more women, we feel this is the right time for the brand to expand […]
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CFDA potentially turning to consumer-focused model for New York Fashion Week
New York – The decades old format of the biggest weeks on New York City’s fashion calendar could be changing. Diane von Furstenburg, Chairman of the CFDA, announced this week that Fashion Week might turn into more of a consumer-focused event. The theoretical idea at hand is that the collections shown would be the collections […]
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Saint Laurent’s grunge princesses strike a chord at PFW
Whether you love or loathe Hedi Slimane’s transformation of the Yves Saint Laurent brand, you cannot deny its impact on contemporary fashion. The house has been revived more than just economically with Slimane’s interpretations of contemporary youth culture and is currently thriving. Other fashion brands are not churning out the same of rate of successful […]
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Raf Simons most googled designer of 2015
Raf Simons, the former creative director of Dior, was the designer everyone wanted to know more on, according to Google’s annual list of top trending searches of 2015. Simons wasn’t a surprise topping the chart, his shock departure from Dior in October made headlines around the world, however, the second most searched for designer, Shoshanna […]
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Francesca Versace launching handbag line
Francesca Versace, the daughter of Versace president and co-chief executive officer Santo Versace, has decided that she would like add a new line to her resume. The stylish woman is stepping into the fashion industry with her own line of handbags. Before you accuse this woman of achieving success because of nepotism, she has the […]
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