Fashion

Hyères Festival makes a new start with its 36th edition

Hyères (France) - On Thursday evening, for the 36th consecutive year, the International Festival of Fashion, Photography and Accessories took place in the Villa Noailles, in the town of Hyères in the South East of France. A little over a week after Paris Fashion Week, the fashion world gathers again under the sun of the Côte d’Azur to attend...

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Fashion |Opinion

Why sustainable packaging must be the starting point to fashion's waste problem

Let’s consider for a moment the packaging journey of a garment prior to it arriving in one’s wardrobe. Most garments are packaged several times over before it reaches the customer, seeing multiple variants of discarded single-use packaging. More than 80 billion garments are produced annually across the world, many of which are shipped and packed...

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Fashion

Global Warning: Botter alerts on the climate emergency

Lisi Herrebrugh and Rushemy Botter, artistic directors of Nina Ricci and founders of the Botter brand, are what we call emerging designers. With this status comes a lot of media attention, which they are using to confront the fashion world with climate change. Their spring/summer 2022 Botter collection, ‘Global Warning’, was no exception to this...

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Business

Hugo Boss posts strong Q3 results, raises forecast

On a preliminary basis, currency adjusted sales at Hugo Boss Ag increased 40 percent compared to the prior-year period. In Group currency, revenues were up 42 percent to 755 million euros in the three-month period. Compared to the third quarter of 2019, the company said in a release, currency-adjusted group sales increased 7 percent, driven by a...

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Fashion

Coach sales plummeted 44% after viral video exposed destruction of goods

Demand for Coach online fell by 44% overnight after it emerged on Saturday via a viral TikTok video that the brand was slashing unsold merchandise. Searches for ‘Coach bags’ also dropped by 49% compared to the previous 24 hours according to data from Lovethesales.com, a global fashion marketplace which tracks demand and sales data from over 10...

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Fashion

Sneaker prices are rising at the fastest rate of inflation in 20 years

Everything from supermarkets to fuel to fashion seems to be getting more expensive. Footwear is the latest category to see an increase in prices, as inflation surges at the fastest rate in 20 years. In the U.S., consumer prices have risen 5.4 percent in September alone, with further increases expected throughout the remained of 2021 and the...

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Business

Saks Off Fifth increases minimum wage to 15 dollars for hourly employees

Luxury off-price retailer, Saks Off Fifth, has announced it will be increasing its minimum wage to 15 dollars for its US-based hourly workers, effective immediately, as well as its plan to implement bonus opportunities and competitive benefit offerings. “The past 18 months have been like nothing we have seen before in retail and this increase in...

14 Oct 2021

Business |In depth

ESG in fashion: a general overview of the EU framework on environment, social and governance criteria in the fashion industry

Brussels – More and more fashion companies are announcing programs with ambitious (some more than others) goals in relation to environmental, social and governance criteria. Recently ASOS launched its ‘Fashion with Integrity’ (FWI) 2030 programme, committing to achieve Net Zero across the full value chain by 2030. Also consumer demand is not...

14 Oct 2021

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Fashion

Jimmy Choo announces NFT collection

Jimmy Choo has announced a collaboration with artist Eric Haze and fashion designer Poggy on an NFT piece. The NFT, which will be available for auction on the Binance NFT marketplace, features a digital sneaker, rotating against a background of Haze’s signature writing. Alongside the NFT artwork, 8,888 mystery boxes will be available for...

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Retail

Subscription service Cocoon launches pop-up at Harvey Nichols

Luxury handbag subscription service Cocoon will be opening a new pop-up shop at Harvey Nichols in Knightsbridge, London. Set to stay at the location for three months, the service will give shoppers the opportunity to see Cocoon’s handbag collection and learn about the membership subscription service the platform offers. Existing members will...

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Culture

Kate Moss and Naomi Campbell to be turned into NFTs in Ellen von Unwerth release

Through digital auction site Cryptograph, fashion photographer Ellen von Unwerth will be releasing a five piece non-fungible token (NFT) collection starring three iconic supermodels in images she has taken from the past. The ‘Supermodel Series’ exists as an ode to the iconic supermodels Claudia Schiffer, Naomi Campbell and Kate Moss, turning...

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Fashion

Megan Thee Stallion hops on fast food merchandise trend with Popeyes collab

Grammy award-winning rapper Megan Thee Stallion has revealed an extensive collaboration with fast-food chain Popeyes, seeing the artist release a range of merchandise that complements new collaborative special additions to the restaurant’s menu. Thee Heat, the first selection of the Popeyes x Megan Thee Stallion merchandise collection, will be...

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