Articles by Tessa Guntlisbergen
HolisMen wins the Master Coach Entrepreneur Award 2020
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Four creators of the business concept HolisMen have won the Meester Koetsier Entrepreneur Award 2020. The award is presented annually to students of the TMO Fashion Business School in Doorn, the Netherlands. HolisMen, an amalgamation of Holisme and Men, is a start-up that offers lectures, dinners and inspiration to a community created by them...
Will Myanmar become the new Bangladesh?
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Tuesday marked five years since thousands of workers were killed by the collapse of the Rana Plaza textile factory in Bangladesh. Due to the extremely low wages and tax advantages Bangladesh is the center for fast and cheap production of fast fashion. However, more and more Western fashion companies nowadays are moving further south-east, to...
Essentiel Antwerp ventures into Germany
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Belgian fashion label Essentiel Antwerp will enter the German market next month. The brand will open its first independent shop in Cologne on December 15, various media report. After Cologne, Essentiel Antwerp will also launch a German online shop in 2018. The Belgian brand already expanded into Asia earlier this year with a shop in China. It...
Menswear designer to watch out for: Virgil Abloh from Off-White
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Menswear designer Virgil Abloh does not mince words. The invitation to the debut show of his streetwear label Off-White arrived in the form of an orange t-shirt featuring a life jacket’s user instructions on the front. The back featured the quotation ‘I will never forgive the ocean’ by the Iranian poet Omid Shams. Abloh’s background in various...
Menswear designer to watch out for: Gosha Rubchinskiy
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Russian menswear designer Gosha Rubchinskiy is known for redefining global cultural ideas. He hails from the outskirts, and over the years has used his background to create a new subculture, carving out a well-deserved place for himself among streetwear-greats like Supreme and Palace. He now works together with big names like Stephen Jones,...