Louis Vuitton’s Selfridges Townhouse Performs Delicate Balancing Act
LONDON, United Kingdom — From the minute you enter the space, it’s clear that Louis Vuitton’s new “Townhouse” in London’s Selfridges is no ordinary shop-in-shop. Designed by French-born, Japan-based...
View ArticleFor Brands Big and Small, Fashion Archives Can Be a Powerful Asset
NEW YORK, United States — Julie Ann Orsini was a fashion history graduate student at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York when she “fell into” the world of fashion archiving. Her first major...
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Nike’s Spirit Machine
BEAVERTON, United States — How does Nike avoid being the victim of its own success? The answer is HTM, a three-person design collaboration between chief executive Mark Parker, designer Tinker Hatfield,...
View ArticleCan Kate Spade Become a $4 Billion Business?
NEW YORK, United States — In the mid-to-late 1990s, women in New York seemed to fall into two camps: those carrying Kate Spade’s chic, black nylon bags and those desperate to do so. Founded in 1993 by...
View ArticleThe Burgeoning Business of Fashion Education
LONDON, United Kingdom — In recent years, the fashion business has become more transparent, accessible and professionalised, making a career in the industry a more visible and viable option than ever...
View ArticleFashion’s Art Fair Love Affair
MIAMI, United States — Heroically poised against the bleached-out blue of a winter sky, feet planted on a bone-white beachfront, surrounded by torqued metal frames and canvases scraped with abstract...
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Inside an Artist Collaboration
LONDON, United Kingdom — Fashion’s artist collaborations go back to the closely coupled creative worlds of Paul Poiret and Raoul Dufy, and Elsa Schiaparelli and Salvador Dalí. But in the intervening...
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Market Pulse | Giving Thanks?
LONDON, United Kingdom — The Savigny Luxury Index (“SLI”) has gained some ground in November gaining 1.4 percent over the month, roughly in line with the MSCI World Index (“MSCI”). There has been a...
View ArticleThe Fall of the House of Juicy
NEW YORK, United States — November 8th was a sad day for Juicy Couture fans. “Juicy Couture stores will be changed to Kate Spade! bring back @skaisttaylor please!” shouted @lilitmanukyan via Twitter....
View ArticleIn Milan, MSGM’s Fresh Formula
MILAN, Italy — “These came in this morning,” says Massimo Giorgetti, founder and creative director of Milanese brand MSGM, pointing to the first drafts of the company’s new summer advertising campaign...
View ArticleBarbour and Belstaff: A Tale of Two British Heritage Brands
LONDON, United Kingdom — From this perennially grey and cold corner of the world innumerable commercial legacies have been forged, but perhaps never more regularly than during the late 19th and early...
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Why Harris Wharf Works
LONDON, United Kingdom — Browse the racks at Barneys New York or London’s Dover Street Market and you may stumble upon a selection of modish, sophisticated and exceptionally cut blazers and coats by a...
View ArticleCan Rebekka Bay Save Gap?
NEW YORK, United States — It may have been October 15, but the weather in New York City had yet to chill. Indian summer light bathed the expansive Tribeca loft space where creative director Rebekka Bay...
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Market Pulse | Cashing In
LONDON, United Kingdom — Both the Savigny Luxury Index (“SLI”) and the MSCI World Index (“MSCI”) suffered from profit-taking in early December, although the MSCI recovered lost ground in the second...
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Behind Public School’s Second Coming
NEW YORK, United States — “I think people give me more credit than is due,” says Eugene Tong, senior style director at Details magazine, who styles the presentations of the burgeoning New York menswear...
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Show Business: Are Fashion Shows Still Relevant?
LONDON, United Kingdom — The likelihood is that you have already seen a version of the Chanel image above. You will know that Karl Lagerfeld transformed Paris’ vast Grand Palais into a whitewashed...
View ArticleFor the Activewear Market, There’s No Way But Up
NEW YORK, United States — Wearing gym clothes beyond the gym has never looked more appropriate. Indeed, in many of the world’s style capitals, it’s difficult not to notice the rise of the post-workout...
View ArticleFor Emerging Designers, Celebrity Sells
LONDON, United Kingdom — Banks of blinding flashbulbs flank a crimson carpet. Incessant, insistent shouts beg for one more mega-watt smile, one more flick of a train. Square-jawed men in funereal black...
View ArticleThe Fashionable Return of Fine Jewellery
LONDON, United Kingdom — For those with the money to spend, fashion and fine jewellery were once keen bedfellows. Wallis Simpson’s chic ensembles were offset by bespoke pieces from Cartier, light and...
View ArticleA Row of Opportunity, Part 1
LONDON, United Kingdom — In a time of chivalry, in a British capital at war with its Napoleonic neighbour, one would, on occasion, see a black bicorn hat, gilt epilates, buffed boots and snow white...
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