Stella McCartney, Vivienne Westwood and Shrimps celebrated in PETA’s Vegan Fashion Awards
By With more and more designers launching fur-free, faux leather and other cruelty-free garments, animal rights organization PETA honours the best animal friendly brands and retailers each year in it’s annual Vegan Fashion Award. This year saw the organization expand the award category for its biggest prize ceremony to date. Some of this year’s top winners […]
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Invista to relaunch Coolmax and Thermolite
London – Invista, one of the world’s largest integrated producers of polymers and fibres, is to relaunch its Coolmax and Thermolite brands in early 2016, in an attempt to establish a new brand position for them both. The campaign, Embrace the Elements, will highlight the new brand positioning for Coolmax and Thermolite, which includes a […]
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Sartorial Success: Top Trends for Apparel Retailers in 2016
In 2015, retailers’ omnichannel offering took centre stage, as brands innovated across mobile apps and in-store technologies, multichannel fulfilment urban solutions, and coordinated cross-channel promotions and marketing. These kinds of initiatives will continue to be top of mind in 2016, particularly as consumer expectation for a seamless and personalised experience grows. However, 2016 will also […]
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Web Summit: The ‘fashionization’ of wearables
London – “How far away is the tipping point of wearables?” asked Eric Migicovsky, CEO of Pebble, the first commercialized smartwatch to hit the market during the , the world’s largest tech conference in Dublin. “I think that we are close when it comes to size, price and technology. But we are still fighting the […]
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UK retailers may benefit from China visit
Click:Feather hair extension China may be the world’s second-largest economy behind the US, but it has more money in the bank than any other country. Chinese investment in the UK is an important business, even if in the first half of this year its investment fell sharply – just 1.8 billion dollars compared with more […]
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Japan’s love for classic Americana sparks fashion boom
A 47-year-old Iowa-raised designer might seem like an unlikely candidate for overnight success in Japan, but the country’s long-running love affair with classic American style has turned Todd Snyder into a fashion heavyweight. Japan’s fondness for American fashion has seen Snyder open three stores in the country in less than two years, and sparked a […]
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Key Products at Trade Shows for Spring/Summer 2016
The latest season of trade shows is now at an end, having showcased thousands of Spring/Summer 2016 collections to industry professionals around the world. From Bread & Butter in Berlin and Premiere Classe in Paris to Scoop, Tranoi Femme, Who’s Next and many more, each show presented visitors with a diverse array of S/S16 products […]
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Colombian eco-designer finds beauty in trash
Adriana Restrepo has a lot of experience searching for silver linings. The Colombian fashion designer and environmentalist was a pregnant 18-year-old when drug traffickers in Medellin, her violence-stained hometown, killed her partner, leaving her to raise their son on her own. Maybe that has something to do with her talent for finding beauty in other […]
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The UK’s Top 10 most popular fashion blogs
With the rise of social media and the internet came the rise of the fashion bloggers, who have grown to become an intricate part of the industry’s ever evolving landscape. Never before has a blogger’s influence been able to reach as far or as wide as now, and more and more brands and retailers are […]
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Young men’s fashion goes DIY
Hand-drawn graphics, sketchbook scrawls and graffiti is making its way into the young men’s fashion arena. Think powerful messaging 90s style, a new movement of communicating and perhaps rebellion, via clothing and fashion. It began with Raf Simons playing with boldly placed text and photos on clothing, such as on tailored coats and sportswear, but […]
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