The Woolmark Company opens Wool Resource Centre
By London – The Woolmark Company, the global authority on wool, has opened a Wool Resource Centre in Hong Kong to help present new opportunities for the local textile industry, as well as to “inspire, connect and educate global brands”. The multi-functional space, located in Kowloon Tower Landmark East building, marks a global hub for the […]
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Etihad Airways to sponsor global fashion week events
London – Etihad Airways, the national airline of the UAE, has signed a new global agreement with WME-IMG to become a “major long-term partner” to the fashion industry, by agreeing to sponsor 17 fashion week events around the world annually. Claimed as a world’s first multinational, multi-year airline sponsorship supporting the fashion industry, Etihad Airways […]
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SS17 Essential Menswear Colour Directions
Trendstop gives FashionUnited readers a first look at three essential colour directions for Spring Summer 2017. Trendstop helps to ensure that collections have the optimum expert analysis to inform color decision making. This process begins with the latest trends manifesting in ready-to-wear, as Trendstop’s catwalk team bring you the latest trends hot from the catwalk. […]
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Vogue 100: Duchess of Cambridge cover and exhibition
London – British Vogue is celebrating its 100th anniversary featuring the Duchess of Cambridge on its cover. As part of a partnership with the British National Portrait Gallery, the Duchess will appear on the centenary June 2016 issue of the fashion magazine and have two of her portraits hung in the gallery. A spokesperson at […]
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Uniqlo collaborates with Liberty London
New York – Liberty London is popular for its brightly colored floral patterns and unique, original designs. A certain Japanese fast-fashion brand by the name of Uniqlo has taken notice, and now they have done a collaboration together. Liberty London and Uniqlo worked together to come up with designs that would fit both Liberty London’s […]
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4 emerging designers to watch from London Fashion Week
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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