Victoria Beckham bans exotic skins from future collections
Victoria Beckham is the latest fashion brand to stop using fur and exotic skins, following the footsteps of several other labels such as Chanel, Diane von Furstenberg and Michael Kors, to name but a few. Beckham has never used fur in her collections, but commited to not ever using it as well as discontinuing accessories…
Dennis Basso on the new New York girl
Dennis Basso has been outfitting New York women since the eighties. He’s best known for his luxurious furs, and in 2002 he took a major plunge into ready-to-wear which was beloved by the Upper East Side socialites to hip-hop artists. It would be easy to think of his clientele as just some upper crust Manhattan…
Romeo Hunte brings street glam to New York Fashion Week
Click:wps官网下载 There’s streetwear and there’s traditional glamour, and rarely, if ever have the twain met. Designer Romeo Hunte decided two meet the two in holy matrimony at New York Fashion Week this season. His latest collection was an homage to the fashion trends of the early to mid-1900’s. The womenswear was done with a bit…
Burberry donates work wardrobes for International Women’s Day
Burberry has teamed up with UK charity Smart Works to offer work wardrobes to women in need for International Women’s Day. The UK luxury label is hosting a dressing session in its London flagship showroom where seven of the charity’s clients had a one-to-one styling session with members of Burberry’s private clients team and received…
GQ launches B2B luxury conference
British GQ is entering the B2B conference market, with its first event, GQ Heroes, to focus on luxury. In partnership with retail group Flannels, GQ Heroes will explore the helical relationships and leadership values that exist between luxury, media, politics, culture, entertainment, style, health and sport. The publications says it will “join the dots in…
Chiara Boni reaches the jetsetting customer
Chiara Boni La Petite Robe is known for their signature cocktail dresses that are suitable for the elegant Italian woman and young socialites the world over. What’s been missing from the fashion industry, however, is a uniform for the jet-setting socialites of today. This fall/winter 2019 season at New York Fashion Week, Boni updated her…
British shoppers influenced by “celebrity lifestyles”
A new report has revealed that British consumers are spending 6 billion pounds a year in a bid to tap into celebrity lifestyles, with one in four adults stating that their spending habits have been influenced indirectly by celebrities. The report for Zopa, conducted by OnePoll surveyed 2,000 consumers, and found that the typical Briton…
Teddy Girls make comeback in Dior’s rebel Paris show
Dior went back to the feisty Teddy Girls of 1950s Britain for its vision of a feminist future in its Paris fashion week show Tuesday. With black leather jackets, long nipped-waist Dior “New Look” skirts with leather cumberbunds and tartan a-go-go, designer Maria Grazia Chiuri raided the wardrobes of the rebel girls of the early…
Marc Jacobs moves for dismissal of Grunge collection copyright suit
Marc Jacobs has filed for a dismissal of a copyright lawsuit brought up by Nirvana. against the fashion brand back in December over the Redux Grunge collection Marc Jacobs had released last year. Marc Jacobs created its Redux Grunge collection for the Resort 2019 season, basing it off of from its own collection from 1992.…
New Fashion Studio Assistant apprenticeship launches in the UK
A new fashion studio assistant apprenticeship has been approved by the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education (the Institute). Coinciding with the opening of this season’s London Fashion Week, the launch of the course marks the 400th new apprenticeship approved for use, and has been developed by employers from across the UK fashion industry, with…