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Market Pulse | A Chilly Summer
LONDON, United Kingdom — The Savigny Luxury Index (“SLI”) fell a further 3.8 percent this month. The outlook for the luxury goods sector darkened as disappointing results from industry leader LVMH...
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Cult Menswear Brand John Elliott + Co Grows on Its Own Terms
LOS ANGELES, United States — American label John Elliott + Co launched its first collection of standout menswear essentials in January 2013. The company was founded just months before, in April 2012,...
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Men’s Swimwear Market Matures
LONDON, United Kingdom — The size of the global swimwear market is expected to reach $19.3 billion by 2018, propelled in no small part by male consumers and the growth of swimwear brands catering to...
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Shayne Oliver of Hood By Air on His Design Vision
NEW YORK, United States — The best way to understand Shayne Oliver’s strategy as a designer is to see it as a reflection of his strategy as a DJ. His description of his direction for GHE20G0TH1K, the...
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Royal College of Art, An Institutional Innovator
LONDON, United Kingdom — A respectful hush emanates from the red-brick mansion blocks that surround the Royal College of Art (RCA). The college is situated in the sedate, residential heart of South...
View ArticleIs Fine Jewellery Set for a Branding Revolution?
NEW YORK, United States — Just imagine if the vast majority of fashion were unbranded, sold by generic retailers and small-time traders instead of globally recognised giants. In the market for fine...
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Class Action: The Fashion Brands Training Tomorrow’s Artisans
MILAN, Italy — Traditional fashion schools are in the business of producing the runway stars of tomorrow. Top-ranking education centres such as Central Saint Martins (CSM) in London, Parsons The New...
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Market Pulse | All Eyes on America
LONDON, United Kingdom — The Savigny Luxury Index (“SLI”) regained some of the ground it had lost over June and July, increasing by 2.2 percent in August on the back of positive results announcements....
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Behind the Vans Boom
LOS ANGELES, United States — “Vans was a brand that was run very emotionally,” said Kevin Bailey, president of the action sports division of VF Corporation, which owns Vans, a company with almost 60...
View ArticleAmy Astley on the Symbiotic Relationship Between Fashion and Young Hollywood
LONDON, United Kingdom — On smartphones, computer screens, televisions and tabloid newspapers, each day millions of people engage in the global cultural ritual of consuming celebrity fashion coverage,...
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Michael Gordon’s Next Act
NEW YORK, United States — Jessie Yip found herself on the other side of the lens. Her friend, Nova Pan, had taken the photographer to Hairstory, a new salon in New York’s financial district where the...
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Retail Recon | In Shoreditch, All’s Good in the Hood
LONDON, United Kingdom — As the rise of mega-brands and mega-malls have turned shopping for fashion into a more homogenised and impersonal experience, a new genre of intimate, highly-curated...
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6 Emerging Fashion Brands Worth Investing In
LONDON, United Kingdom — Just before the Spring/Summer 2015 womenswear shows kicked off in New York, rumours began circulating that luxury conglomerate LVMH was eyeing a stake in Proenza Schouler. The...
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Inside Diesel’s ‘Reboot’
BREGANZE, Italy — “Diesel, after so many years, was tired,” sighed Renzo Rosso, the company’s 59-year-old founder, sitting in his art-strewn office on the top floor of the company’s modern, campus-like...
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The Secret Journey of a Fashion Piece — Part 1: Creativity & Design
NEW YORK, United States — We might be in the midst of ‘fashion month’ — the four consecutive weeks of runway shows that wind their way from New York to London to Milan to Paris — but it’s also Spring...
View ArticleBlack Milk, ‘Sharkies’ and the Rise of a Fashion Fandom
BRISBANE, Australia — Fandoms are communities that take root and grow around cultish aspects of pop culture. Think Potterheads (fans of Harry Potter), Trekkies (Star Trek followers), Bronies (male fans...
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Market Pulse | Red Alert in Hong Kong
LONDON, United Kingdom — The Savigny Luxury Index (“SLI”) fell sharply over the month, losing 4.2 percent versus a flat MSCI World Index (“MSCI”) as the industry suffers from a general slowdown and a...
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The Secret Journey of a Fashion Piece — Part 2: Manufacturing and Production
NEW YORK, United States — It’s a week after a Spring/Summer 2015 runway show and the buyers have come and gone. Orders have been placed. The design team has already begun developing concepts for the...
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Reinventing The Department Store
LONDON, United Kingdom — In the heyday of department stores, fashionable ladies flocked to luxury emporiums like Le Bon Marché, Bergdorf Goodman, Saks Fifth Avenue and Selfridges. Draped in fur coats,...
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Inside the Eytys Explosion
STOCKHOLM, Sweden — In a little over a year, Jonathan Hirschfeld and Max Schiller have managed to turn their fledgling Swedish sneaker brand, Eytys (pronounced ’80s’ and spelled with Ys in reference to...
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