Graduate Fashion Week isn’t just for women’s and menswear designers, this year also saw an influx of fashion designers showcasing impressive childrenswear collections, with Salford University’s Sinead Blagbrough scooping the Mothercare Childrenswear Award at the prestigious gala show. Blagbrough impressed the judges with her “attention to colour, designer and innovation,” for her vibrant ‘Two Girls, […]
Rumors have been swirling since it was brought to the attention of the fashion industry that Rihanna’s Fenty Puma line was not on the New York Fashion Week calendar this season. Speculation began that she would be showing at Paris Fashion Week. Now, the rumors have been confirmed. Rihanna has scheduled two Fenty Puma presentations […]
Calvin Klein Jeans and luxury e-commerce site Mytheresa.com have teamed up for a capsule collection. The project has been given the lengthy title of “Calvin Klein Jeans x Mytheresa.com — Calvin Klein Jeans Rebel Edge Limited Edition.” While it might sound like something completely brand new, it’s actually just an update of Calvin Klein’s classic, […]
British fashion put a brave face on Brexit on Friday as it began its first catwalk shows since the vote, citing a surge in sales on the weak pound despite fears that leaving the EU will hit exports and increase costs. “It might not have been what we wanted, but I think there’s actually a […]
Japanese lifestyle brand Uniqlo has launched its annual UT t-shirt Grand Prix design contest for 2017. The competition, which is open to anyone across the globe, theme for this year is none other than Nintendo, “whose games and characters have delighted countless millions around the world,” said Uniqlo in a statement. One of the design […]
Rebel brand Vetements sent fashion into a spin Sunday with an haute couture show that broke all the rules, appropriating clothes and shoes from 17 other brands and recutting them in its own irreverent neo-Soviet street style. The most talked about brand in fashion had been invited to show as a guest in the elite, […]
Finding a successor to continue the lineage of fashion empire so closely associated with its founder has been the bain of chief executives from Milan to Paris. From Jil Sander to Yves Saint Laurent, and Oscar de la Renta to Ralph Lauren, the noughties have seen an endless round of musical chairs with designers helming […]
British department store group Marks & Spencer has teamed up with a team of seven inspirational women to encourage female customers to remain active to help prevent breast cancer as part of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Women who are active for at least 30 minutes a day cut their risk of developing breast cancer by […]
London’s South Molton Street, just off Oxford Street, is becoming an unofficial French quarter of fashion retailing, the area already boasts contemporary brands including Maje, Sandro, Gerard Darel, Claudie Pierrot, Comptoir des Cotonniers, and Zadig and Voltaire, and now there’s a new French label making its debut, IKKS, with the opening of its first standalone […]
London – British designer Grace Wales Bonner has been crowned the winner of the third annual LVMH Prize, the international competition which celebrates young designers. The London-based designer is set to receive a cash prize of 300,000 euros in addition to a year-long mentorship from some of the top executives at fashion conglomerate LVMH. Grace […]
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