Articles by Yasmine Esser
Denim for Dummies (2): Everything you need to know about washing and finishing
Whether you sell jeans or you’re aiming for a career in denim, you should have a better than average knowledge of the material. But there are so many terms! Do you know what they all mean? Here we explain the basics of denim to you. No need for bluffing no more. In Denim for dummies (1): we talked you through selvedge jeans, Japanese denim,...
Fashion Featured29 Oct 2019
Why American Apparel employees want former CEO Dov Charney back
The employee [name of the interviewee is known within the editorial department of FashionUnited. This article has been anonymized upon request of the interviewee in february 2025, red.] first began his career at American Apparel working in a store in Amsterdam. He then went on to work close to ten years at the label's head office as visual...
Fashion Featured15 Sept 2015
Zalando welcomes its new vice president Specialty
Women's wear and men's wear has matured over the past few years at German online retailer Zalando. Now the online giant has decided to turn its focus to developing its smaller product groups, such as lingerie and childrenswear. This is where Benjamin Kruemel steps in, who was recently hired as the company's first vice president for Specialty....
Fashion |INTERVIEW Featured7 Aug 2015
Bread & Butter's location trump
Never before has Bread & Butter been so small and quiet. Where there used to be aching long lines of visitors patiently waiting to enter the trade fair, this season saw visitors waltzing in without any wait. The exhibitors that did not jump ship and swap their stands at Bread & Butter for another trade fair in the city or skipped out on Berlin...
Fairs|REVIEW Featured8 Jul 2015
Triumph's Amourette: 'You just know when you have Found the One'
London - "I have to say, I have the easiest task of the evening because everything we will be presenting is all from the lingerie from the Amourette family. They only have another color, another print or are made of another material," explained Carine Van den Broeck, product manager at Triumph, during a preview presentation for the Amourette...
Fashion Featured23 Jun 2015
9 tips for Winter 2016 from Lidewij Edelkoort
One of the first things that stands out as trend forecaster Lidewij Edelkoort presents her anti-fashion manifesto in the Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, is that for one she is not dressed in black. She had swapped her 'uniform' of a loose fitting black dress for a transparent example bearing a print. On her feet glitter sandals...
Fashion Featured28 May 2015
Black Rabbit: the season-less men's fashion label
After years of working for labels such as Diesel and G-Star, fashion designer Leo Velimir Brancovich has enough of the fashion seasonal cycle and the endless stampede of discounting that followed. He launched his catharsis to these botches on the industry last November in the form of the timeless men’s wear fashion label Black Rabbit and now he...
Fashion Featured26 May 2015
Kingpins: Jeans should be soft and comfortable
Although mom jeans and flares are what the next few seasons are all about, the skinny is far from over. “Skinny jeans will never be over,” says Alberto Primo Candiani, global manager at Italian weaving mill Candiani, during Kingpins. The key word at the international trade fair for denim mills and one of the main components for the skinny:...
FairsFeatured21 Apr 2015
5 Denim styles: Consumers looking for a choice in the matter
April is a blue month at FashionUnited. With denim making its comeback in time for Spring/Summer 2015, thanks to catwalk collections from fashion houses such as Burberry Prorsum, Gucci and Stella McCartney and the increasing number of denim driven events occurring this month, such as Amsterdam Denim Days and Kingpins and InDIGO Asia, the Asia's...
Fashion Featured15 Apr 2015
Dov Charney & Mike Jeffries: the tale of two controversial CEO's
This time it's real. The infamous Dov Charney was officially dismissed from his role at American Apparel this month, the fashion retailer he co-founded. He was previously voted down from his position as group chief executive officer this June after a series of allegations concerning misconduct were brought against him, but has managed to stay on...
Fashion Featured31 Dec 2014