Articles by Sylvana Lijbaart
Dutch fashion competition Lichting announces 2023 winner
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Yousra Razine Mahrah is the winner of Lichting 2023. This was announced on Friday, September 1 after the annual show of fashion award Lichting in Amsterdam. During the show, seven selected alumni of Dutch fashion academies showcased their creations on the runway, as well as three alumni who entered via an open call. Mahrah, who graduated from...
Uganda bans the import of discarded clothing from Europe and the US
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The East African country of Uganda is putting an immediate stop to the import of second-hand clothing. President Yoweri Museveni wants to advance its own textile industry by doing so, as people who present new clothing to Uganda typically struggle to intervene in the market. Museveni announced the move at the opening of a Ugandan-Chinese...
AMFI alumnus and Lichting winner Ruben Jurriën talks about his new collection
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Anyone who says cheerful, flamboyant and positive says Ruben Jurriën, the Amsterdam-based young fashion designer and AMFI alumnus who won 'Lichting' 2022, an annual prize that rewards the best fashion design graduate in The Netherlands. Jurriën presented "Take my heart!", a collection that made reference to tailoring and to the relief Jurriën...
Essentiel Antwerp opens store in New York and launches American webshop
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The Belgian fashion brand Essentiel Antwerp has settled in America. The Antwerp fashion label is opening a boutique in New York's Soho district and launching an online store in the region, Esfan Eghtessadi, CEO at Essentiel Antwerp, told Belgian media outlet De Tijd. The opening of the store will take place in September and, according to the...
After death of founder, Maison Ullens closes doors as losses mount - reports
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The curtain has reportedly fallen for Belgian luxury fashion brand Maison Ullens after its founder Myriam Ullens de Schooten Whettnall was shot dead in front of her house earlier this year. Losses at the company have mounted and it has failed to find a party who wants to take over the business, according to various media reports. According to...
Birkenstock to reportedly go public in the US in September
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German shoe brand Birkenstock is reportedly set to go public as early as September, Bloomberg reported. Earlier, rumours circulated that Birkenstock was considering a possible IPO in the autumn. L Catterton, the main owner of the German shoe brand, is thus said to be preparing an IPO in the US. According to professionals, Birkenstock is...
France to stop automatic receipt printing
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France will stop the automatic printing of receipts from 1 August, as part of its move towards a circular economy, an official announcement read. Over 30 billion receipts are printed every year in France, many of which end up in waste. A survey even found that over a third of French people throw away a receipt immediately after purchase. The...
Aeffe dives deeper into red for first half of 2023
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Aeffe Spa, the Italian parent company of Moschino and Alberta Ferretti, among others, is seeing its sales decline and plunge deeper into the red in the first half of FY23. The company has been writing red figures since the end of financial year 2022. Consolidated sales reached 162.9 million euros in the first half of 2023, equivalent to a 7.7...
Inditex to make 'gradual' exit from Myanmar
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Inditex, the parent company of Zara, Zara Home, Pull & Bear, Massimo Dutti, Bershka, Stradivarius and Oysho, will no longer source clothes from Myanmar, an Inditex spokesperson has said. The fashion giant is halting purchases as a result of a campaign by global labour union IndustriALL to persuade companies not to invest in the country...
Independent designers accuse Shein of extortion and intellectual property infringement
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Chinese fast fashion giant Shein has been accused of "large-scale and systematic theft of the intellectual property of major and minor American designers" and of committing infringement-related extortion, The Fashion Law wrote. Independent designers, Krista Perry, Larissa Martinez and Jay Baron claimed Shein is responsible for violating...