Viktor & Rolf and Roland Mouret show menswear
Two of womenswear’s elite designer labels showed menswear collections during men’s Fashion Week in Paris Thursday. The Viktor & Rolf collection, called Paint it Black, was “designed with ourselves and our own lives in mind, and therefore less dramatic than the women’s line,” they said. Click Here:
Ashley Banjo fases River Island
River Island Graduate Fashion Week have announced diversity dancer and choreographer Ashley Banjo as the new face of the graduate menswear line. The collection is designed by past Graduate Fashion Week students who are currently employed at River Island and ’embody the energy and originality of the brand’; the line includes cardigans, roll leg chinos,…
Hermès sales 2009
Over the year of 2009, the sales of Hermès went up with 8,5 per cent and came to €1,914.3m in 2009. Growth accelerated in the fourth quarter. All regions other than Japan delivered growth over the full year. Sales expanded by 20 per cent in the Americas, by 12 per cent in Asia and by…
Jimmy Choo teams up with Ugg Australia
Luxury is about to get comfortable. Jimmy Choo has confirmed it is collaborating with Ugg Australia on a limited edition collection of women’s sheepskin footwear. The co-branded collection, based on the ubiquitous boots which you either love or hate will be available from October this year. There will be five different styles in multiple colour…
Calling Young Accessory Designers
This year Clothes Show London and the Fashion and Textile Museum are teaming up to launch the ‘Young Accessory Designer of the Year’ awards. For the new competition they are looking for young accessory designers, which is taking place at Earls Court 25-27 June 2010. The competition is open to aspiring designers who have been…
Westfield catwalk shown online with ‘hotspotting’
Westfield London is bringing the excitement of one of its fashion shows to life for the online community, with the use of new video technology- ‘hotspotting’. The interactive technology has been applied by Westfield London to footage of the recent ‘Greatest Fashion Show on Earth’ catwalk show, featuring clothes from designers and brands including Twenty8Twelve,…
Versace re-creates Gianni’s glass designs
Donatella Versace has teamed up with Venini to produce an exclusive collection of hand-blown glass vases. “I’m so proud because with this new collaboration, we re-created some historical vases that Gianni had designed, obviously re-edited and streamlined,” she said at Wednesday’s presentation of the new Versace Casa collection in Milan. The first Venini collaboration ran…
Richemont’s sales drop 4% and profits 44%
Swiss luxury group Richemont reported a drop in sales of 4 percent to $6.3 billion (EUR 5.2 billion). Profits fell 44 percent to $732 million (EUR 600 million). The only region to register growth was Asia-Pacific, with sales up 17 percent. Revenue in Europe dropped 11 percent, sales were down 20 percent in the Americas,…
Spotlight on day 4 of NYFW
New York fashion week continued on during the most brutal winter day New York has seen all season. Designers weren’t letting the weather get in the way of them putting their tirelessly sewn collections on display, however. The theme for this Sunday must have a face off of what designer was going to present the…
M&S customers face shipping delays for online orders
Although Marks & Spencer has successfully managed to cut complaints concerning its clothing arm down by 20 percent, the department store group is now facing a new slew of complaints from customers after delaying the delivery of online orders by up to two weeks. The group was forced to extend delivery times and put a…