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If you’ve always dreamed of being a fashion icon, yet you’re just breaking into the industry with an entry level position, don’t fret. Some of the household designer names and creative directors we all know today worked a few not so glamorous jobs before making it big. Hedi Slimane – marketing assistant Recently appointed creative…

Gucci has launched an haute perfume family called The Alchemist’s Garden. Consisting of seven different eaux de parfum, four perfumed oils and three scented waters. The collection of scents is inspired by the art of alchemy and fragrance-making, formulated to be layered and blended together to create a unique, personalized fragrance combination. Designed in collaboration…

There are lots of qualities that make up great interns and workers in any company. As an intern you’re there, not only to benefit and assist the department you’re working for, but to improve your skills and grow personally as a young professional. But what is it that makes an intern loved and remembered by…

Rihanna is suing her father for his name. The pop singer, who named her well-known beauty and fashion lines under the name Fenty, claims her father is using the name fraudulently to make money. The issue, however, is that Rihanna inherited the name from him. According to the singer, father Ronald Fenty and his business…

London – 1984 was the year London Fashion Week was born. An initiative of the British Fashion Council, it brought together disparate exhibitions and designers to collectively show on one platform. Back then it was Betty Jackson, Ghost and emerging talent John Galliano that stole the show. Vivienne Westwood had decamped to Paris, but she…

Redress Design Award, the world’s largest sustainable fashion design competition, has expanded to include menswear. Applications from menswear designers will be accepted for the first time since the competition’s launch in 2011. Now in its ninth cycle, the competition aims to find “the next big talent who will inspire a new wave of conscious consumers”,…

Being a fashion buyer is one of the most sought after careers in fashion. Behind the glamorous image of a buyer who is travelling the world to select the latest pieces off fashion week runways is a job that requires a combination of skill sets to be successful. Solely responsible for selecting and ordering what…

MPs have criticised leading UK fast-fashion companies for “failing to commit to reduce environmental impact” within the industry. A report, released by the Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) on Thursday, found that JD Sports, Sports Direct, TK Maxx, Amazon, Boohoo, and Missguided were “least engaged” in their sustainability efforts, with none of them signing up to…

Farfetch has joined forces with Byronesque, the authority in contemporary-vintage fashion, to re-issue an 11-piece menswear collection from Vexed Generation, designed by Adam Thorpe and Joe Hunter. The label from the ‘90s became known for activism through fashion and was inspired by distrust of the state with Thorpe and Hunter designing garments to allow people…

Just when you thought that fashion companies had used the “-wear” suffix for just about every activity imaginable, Under Armour has gone and upped the game with “spacewear”. The US sportswear brand has been named by Virgin Galactic as its exclusive technical spacewear partner tasked with the job of designing and fabricating suits for commercial…