COS increases offerings with increased kids and lifestyle range
Revered for its minimalist offering of wardrobe basics across both womenswear and menswear, London-based H&M Group brand COS has just broadened its selection with the expansion of its COS Kids category. The brand widened its range of childrenswear products, extending its size range to include infants. The COS Kids line now encompasses sizing for children…
Rag & Bone to launch Mickey Mouse collection
Rag & Bone is the latest fashion brand to launch a capsule collection in celebration of Mickey Mouse’s 90th birthday, . The American fashion label led by Marcus Wainwright took to Instagram to announce a limited-edition unisex collection in partnership with Disney, set to launch in 8 days. View this post on Instagram Oh boy!…
US fashion group calls for more diversity in model size
A trade group representing hundreds of America’s designers has called on the fashion industry to showcase women of greater size diversity, such as plus-size models Ashley Graham and Candice Huffine. Graham, of Nebraska, in 2016 became the first plus-size model to make the cover of “Sports Illustrated.” She also appeared on the cover of “Vogue,”…
LFW Men’s: In Numbers
The industry’s latest and brightest talents will be showcasing their work at the upcoming London Fashion Week Men’s. Here’s a brief breakdown of all the events, and what are the highlights to watch out for. Photo credit: FashionUnited
Influencer mistrust can be avoided with transparency
Peer to peer selling may be the next big move for fashion and tech entrepreneurs, but any new platform will have to have full transparency when it comes to influencers marketing products. New research conducted by BBC Radio 4, shows 82 percent of people who took part said it was not always clear when an…
Ralph Lauren discusses Priyanka Chopra’s wedding dress
While 2018 might be remembered for those two spectacular Royal weddings, where and , there might be one celebrity wedding to upstage both, the week-long celebration of Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas, which saw the actress and singer, as well as the wedding party wearing bespoke Ralph Lauren looks, including Chopra’s bridal look that featured…
Nicolas Ghesquiere’s own label might launch sooner than we think
Earlier this week, Nicolas Ghesquière divulged to a French television talk show that his opportunity to launch his own label is “much closer to reality.”” Ghesquière has held the position of creative director for Louis Vuitton womenswear for five years and signed a new contract with LVMH in May, which he reports keeps him in…
Four years out of school, one fashion graduate’s story
A summa cum laude graduate of New York’s Fashion Institute of Technology and winner of the Joe’s Blackbook Design Scholarship in 2014, Dashiel Brahmann has worked with Thom Browne and started his own eponymous label. To many students itching to get out of school and test their mettle in the real world, Dash, as he…
Condé Nast suspends Vogue Ukraine editor for plagiarism
The editor in chief of Vogue Ukraine has been accused of plagiarism and removed from her post pending investigation by Condé Nast. Olga Sushko, who was appointed only two years ago to strengthen the publication’s digital position, admitted she sometimes relies on freelance journalists to supply her with news articles. In a Facebook post Sushko…
Post-Slimane’s Celine, 5 epic design debuts that bombed
As we step over the critical carnage of Hedi Slimane’s debut collection for Celine, and the puzzling disappointment of Riccardo Tisci at Burberry, let’s regain perspective by reviewing some key moments throughout fashion’s history where the hired gun at a beloved house shot himself in the foot but still hobbled on towards victory. In fashion…