4 emerging designers to watch from London Fashion Week
By London Fashion Week has always been seen on the global fashion stage as a hotbed for fresh new talent, and the autumn/winter 2016 schedule was packed full of emerging designers looking to following in the footsteps of J.W. Anderson, Christopher Kane and Sophia Webster and become a global name. FashionUnited has picked out four talents […]
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Marks and Spencer, H&M, and Levi’s honoured as ‘ethical’ companies
London – British retailer Marks and Spencer, along with Swedish fashion chain H&M, and denim brand Levi Strauss and Co, have been recognised as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies by the Ethisphere Institute, an independent centre of research promoting best practices in corporate ethics and governance. The Ethisphere Institute honours companies that excel […]
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Hermès hit by ostrich farm cruelty claims
Hermès was thrown onto the defensive on Tuesday over claims of cruelty at a farm that allegedly supplies skins used in its luxury handbags, the second such allegations in a year. A spokeswoman for animal rights group PETA used the French fashion house’s AGM in Paris to grill Hermes CEO Axel Dumas about a video […]
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Review: Gucci shows Cruise collection in Westminster Abbey
London – Gucci on Thursday showed its Resort 2017 in London’s Westminster Abbey. While the choice of location drew plenty of criticism – how could a 13th century Gothic church, once of the most sacred sites in the UK allow for it to be reduced to a marketplace? – it was by all accounts spectacular, […]
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Snapchat to surpass rivals in US this year
Social media platform Snapchat is expected to grow its user base by more than 27 percent this year, surpassing rivals including Twitter and Pinterest in the US for the first time, according to eMarketer’s latest social media forecast. The number of people using Snapchat in the US will increase by 27.2 percent to 58.6 million […]
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Swarovski opens Designer Collective application for 2017
The Swarovski Collective, which has supported more than 150 designers in the last 15 years, has opened the application process for spring/summer 2017. The scheme, launched by Nadja Swarovski, provides financial and product support to emerging designers in the world’s four main fashion capitals – London, Paris, New York and Milan. Designers need to get […]
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Lindex continues to improve sustainable credentials
Swedish fashion retailer Lindex has released its latest Sustainability Report, revealing that 42 percent of its fashion products are now made from sustainable fibres and that the amount of sustainable garments sold has increased by 64 percent compared to previous year. In total, Lindex, part of Stockmann Group, sold more than 27 million sustainable garments […]
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Vietnam set to surpass China as top textiles manufacturing location
London – Vietnam has managed to squeeze past China to top the list of the most-preferred manufacturing locations for textile and apparel by companies across the globe, according to a recent report published by the Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency (KOTRA). The country has potential to become the world’s biggest textile producing centre following recent trade […]
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At Dior, the show must go on
London – At a Maison like Dior, the show must go on, despite the lack of creative director to guide and inspire its creative team. Without Raf Simons or the announcement of a successor, Dior for AW16 relied on its head designers Serge Ruffieux and Lucie Meier to create next season’s collection while the brand […]
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Instant gratification: the fast fashion revolution
New York Fashion Week this season has put “click and buy” on the map, revolutionizing the antiquated global fashion calendar with clothes that now can be ordered straight from the catwalk. For more than 100 years, the world of high fashion has been divided up into four seasons — spring/summer, autumn/winter. Designers debut their collections […]
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