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Trendstop brings FashionUnited readers a first look at the latest trend directions from the Spring Summer 2020 edition of Europe’s biggest yarn and knitwear showcase, Pitti Filati. The Trendstop materials team give FashionUnited readers an exclusive insight into the key trends from Pitti Filati in Florence. Located at the historic Fortezza Da Basso, the specialist…

Alice + Olivia’s creative director Stacey Bendet is known for her maximalist use of color and her global eye for dressing women around the world, just recall her spring/summer 2019 collection which was literally about jet-setting women. It is hard to imagine how she’d be able to take a brand like hers even further, but…

London College of Fashion (LCF) students were challenged to design garments which capture the essence of Powerpuff Girls, the American animated series about three superpowered sisters Blossom, Bubbles and Buttercup. The project stems from a partnership between the school and Cartoon Network, the television channel which exhibits the series. The ten best designs, chosen by…

Responsible for the production of denim lines for 18 brands including Everlane, G-Star Raw, Polo Ralph Lauren and Target, Vietnam-based factory Saitex recently made headlines when J.Crew and Madewell announced its introduction of fair trade lines produced through the facility. The “world’s cleanest denim factory,” as Everlane describes Saitex on its website, is bringing its…

Ahead of London Fashion Week, new consultancy firm, V&V, which offers practical and tailored support to the fashion and jewellery industries, has launched a ‘Fashion Footprint Tool’ to help provide brands, designers and suppliers understand and improve their sustainability. V&V, the brainchild of fashion supply chain traceability expert Vanessa Brain and Victoria Waugh, formerly the…

Minimalism is coming back at full-speed. Where the past couple seasons collections have been grandiose, over-the-top, and rebellious, this season at New York Fashion Week the understated was back in play. Moon Choi, whose brand is only in its second year, has begun developing quite the following of minimalist lovers. Her latest fall/winter 2019 was…

Premium womenswear brand Baukjen is launching a series of charity T-shirts in collaboration with Princess Diana’s legacy charity, ‘The Diana Award’. Baukjen will launch three T-shirts, each named after a young Diana Award ambassador that has instigated monumental change within their communities, to support The Diana Award as part of the charities 20th anniversary. 50…

Every week, FashionUnited selects the most interesting reads about the fashion industry published across UK and international news outlets. Here’s what you may have missed: Gucci sparks racism controversy There was fresh controversy in the fashion industry this week with Gucci pulling a black polo neck sweater from its shops following criticism on social media…

Luxury British brand Ralph & Russo is set to expand its business properties in May by relocating its atelier space and head office to White City, London. The new 30,000 square foot space within the MediaWorks building in White City Plac is almost twice the size of its current atelier, and will be joining the…

Sportswear giant Adidas Originals brought colour to London Fashion Week to unveil its debut collaboration with New York-based designer, Ji Won Choi, an emerging designer who was previously , for her work revolving around “investigating human cultures”. Making its mark on fashion weeks around the globe has become part of strategy around Adidas Originals and…