Paolo Carzana and Sandermann winners of Fashion Makes Sense Award 2018
Yesterday evening, on October 9, the winners of the second Fashion Makes Sense Award (FMSA) 2018 ere announced during the IAF Festive Fashion Dinner at Château St. Gerlach. The award was brought to life by FASHIONCLASH and is meant to motivate designers who create with a passion for humanity and the environment. IAF and MODINT,…
Race, gender and size diversity reaches all-time high at NYFW
New York Fashion is more diverse than ever before, according to Fashion Spot’s newest report on race, size, gender and age on the catwalk. The publication reviewed 76 fashion shows and 2203 model appearances during the Spring/Summer 2019 season. Nearly 45 percent of the models who worked at the latest New York Fashion Week were…
Art of Data: Nike’s manufacturing data made into art
Fashion brands are increasingly under pressure to make manufacturing practices more transparent, and brands like Nike are making their data available to industry watchdogs and the general public alike. FashionUnited we have created graphics from the otherwise dull spreadsheet data, to help you comprehend the scale and extend of our modern manufacturing practices. Nike’s Manufacturing…
Revamped Sao Paulo Fashion Week highlights new format, new brands
Sao Paulo’s 46th Fashion Week, Latin America’s most important fashion show, is underway this week featuring a new venue, a new format, and the debut of four new labels. This year’s theme is titled “Tran[sp]posicion” (Modification). Novelties included workshops, presentations and panel discussions. Lilly Sarti, the fashion brand run by sisters Lilly and Renata Sarti,…
Loving angels, Victoria’s Secret extravaganza returns to New York
Click:顶级高仿 The planet’s top models transformed into angels for Victoria’s Secret glitzy fashion show Thursday, donning wings, barely-there lingerie and plaid for a return to New York after a two-year hiatus. With the show once again on US soil, sisters Gigi and Bella Hadid strode the runway at Manhattan’s Pier 94 with the likes of…
Fashion in the news: Brits are obsessed with Meghan Markle
Every Friday, FashionUnited selects the most interesting reads about the fashion industry published across UK and international news outlets. Here’s what you may have missed: The Meghan Effect As 2018 rolls to a close, many publications are looking back at most important news and trends of the year. This week, Google has given them a…
Diane von Furstenberg bans fur
New York-based luxury designer Diane von Furstenberg has become the latest designer to announce a ban on fur in her collections, following an appeal from animal rights organisations, Peta US and The Humane Society of the United States. The decision to follow the likes of Burberry, Michael Kors, Gucci and Versace, was announced by the…
Johnstons of Elgin establishing itself as “a brand for all seasons”
London – Scottish cashmere brand Johnstons of Elgin returned to London Fashion Week to showcase not what they are best known for autumn/winter staples, but to establish itself as a label for all seasons, to shout about its contribution to luxury British manufacturing and to showcase the strides it has been making with cutting edgy…
Torrid collaborates with supermodel Tara Lynn
Torrid, the American fashion retailer for women sizes 10 to 30, is collaborating with curvy supermodel Tara Lynn on two limited-edition luxe lingerie collections. Lynn, who has just been named Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Rookie of 2019, has worked with Torrid’s design team on two capsule collections for the holidays and spring 2019 comprising of 20…
Philophiles versus Slimaniacs in fashion’s new civil war
If Hedi Slimane had crushed a kitten under the heel of one of his studded boots he might have provoked less indignation than his debut show for Celine. The howl that went up after the hottest show of Paris fashion week on Friday night has since turned into a civil war on social media between…