Copenhagen Fashion Summit: Standout Quotes
By London – The brought together some of the industry’s brightest and most innovative thinkers, doers, designers, brands and CEO’s who are working to ensure sustainability and responsible fashion become the future of the fashion industry. Below is a collection of the most memorable, thought provoking and interesting statements made throughout the day. “Together we have […]
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Celebrity Designer Naeem Khan to take part in Barcelona Bridal Fashion Week
The New York-based American fashion designer Naeem Khan comes to Spain for the first time to present his new collection of bridal fashions and recently debuted evening wear in a catwalk show at Barcelona Bridal Fashion Week. After a long career dressing women in international society and numerous celebrities from the world of art and […]
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Paris Fashion Week: Five Striking Trends
Five striking trends from the first few days of the Paris autumn-winter womenswear collections which run until March 9: Decadent dandies The front row guests at Dries Van Noten’s sumptuous show were ready to give their (redone) front teeth for anything from what Vogue called this “spine-chillingly elegant” collection of leopard-spot suits, gold lame coats […]
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Report: Denim goes authentic
London – If ever there was a time to update your denim wardrobe and replace your skinny jeans, now would be it. Ever since the millenium the denim market has been flooded with skinny jeans – from spray-on jeggings to super-stretch lean silhouettes – there were few shapes that revolutionised the denim market so radically […]
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Fashion king Armani goes fur free
Say goodbye to Mink coats: Italian fashion king Giorgio Armani said Tuesday he would no longer use any real animal fur in his collections, saying there was no excuse to indulge in such “cruel practices”. The designer and dresser of stars such as singer Beyonce and actress Cate Blanchett said fur would be out from […]
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Is ‘Mrs M&S’ the key to turning around M&S’s clothing crisis?
London – Marks & Spencer is ready to embrace its core, female customer, a group CEO Steve Rowe named “Mrs M&S” during a press conference held on Wednesday, as one of the key drivers of his new strategy to transform the retailer’s clothing and home division. Steve Rowe places “Mrs M&S” needs at the center […]
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Veil aims to offer the future of modest sportswear
London – The demand for items specifically designed to cover a woman’s modesty whilst remaining stylish and on trend, continues to grow. Over the past few years, several Western mass-marker retailers such as and have acknowledged the needs of their Middle Eastern and muslim clientele and responded with targeted capsule collections. However, the increasing demand […]
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Hong Kong’s SCMP newspaper website blocked in China
The website of the South China Morning Post, a Hong Kong newspaper being bought by Internet giant Alibaba, has become inaccessible in China during a series of high-level government meetings in Beijing. Attempts by AFP in China on Friday to open the newspaper’s English and Chinese-language websites returned only error messages saying that the pages […]
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Sneak Peek: H&M Conscious Exclusive x Musée des Arts Décoratifs
High street retailer H&M is set to unveil its fifth Conscious Exclusive collection tomorrow and FashionUnited was invited to an exclusive behind-the-scenes preview of the collection at the Swedish retailer’s office in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. During the preview, H&M also highlighted its ongoing focus on sustainability through its initiatives such as its global recycling campaign […]
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Paris Fashion Week looks to ‘fat ladies’ for inspiration
Fat ladies tend to be thin on the ground on the Paris catwalk. But rising Dutch designer Liselore Frowijn made her ready-to-wear debut Tuesday with a colourful collection to light up autumn-winter inspired by the feminist artist Niki de Saint Phalle’s proudly voluptuous “Nanas”. Her show with its eye-catching zebra-striped trouser suits was full of […]
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