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Vivienne Westwood’s personal wardrobe to be auctioned

The personal wardrobe of the late British designer Dame Vivienne Westwood is to be auctioned at Christie’s this summer. The landmark sale will raise funds for the causes Dame Vivienne championed throughout her life, with proceeds directed towards supporting The Vivienne Foundation, Amnesty International, Médecins Sans Frontières, and Greenpeace....

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Is Hedi Slimane exiting Celine?

Since the beginning of April, speculation has been rife regarding the potential departure of Hedi Slimane from Celine and LVMH. Mr. Slimane assumed the role of Celine’s creative director in January 2018, purportedly under a six-year contract. This contract came up for renewal early in 2024, and despite ongoing negotiations, no announcement...

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Vestiaire Collective introduces cost-per-wear metric as part of its 2024 Circularity Report

French resale luxury fashion platform Vestiaire Collective has launched a new metric to highlight the impact of overconsumption and fast fashion within the fashion industry. Designed to help consumers develop a deeper understanding of the value of fashion, the cost-per-wear metric underlines the true cost of an item by breaking it down into cost...

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Puma introduces biodegradable experimental Re:Suede 2.0 for sale

Sportswear company Puma is set to bring a commercial version of its experimental biodegradable Re:Suede sneaker to market. The announcement comes after Puma was able to successfully turn Re:Suede into compost under specific industrial conditions during a two-year pilot project. As part of the experiment, which ended in late 2023, Puma produced...

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The Costume Society announces finalists for Patterns of Fashion, Patterns for Performance awards

UK charity The Costume Society, which aims to promote the study and preservation of historic and contemporary dress, has announced the finalists for this year’s edition of its two annual and international student awards: the Patterns of Fashion and Patterns for Performance awards 2024. The finalists for the Patterns for Fashion Award 2024 are...

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LVMH exports more luxury products than France does wine

LVMH's global sales of handbags and perfumes exceeded the combined value of all wine and camembert cheese exported by France's agricultural sector, highlighting the luxury sector's importance to the country's trade balance. A study by consultancy firm Asterès for LVMH, as reported by the Financial Times, revealed that the French luxury...

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Gucci to show Cruise collection at Tate Modern in London

Gucci has announced that its Cruise 2025 show will be held at London's Tate Modern on May 13. Creative director Sabato De Sarno, who took over the luxury brand's helm in January last year, will present his first cruise collection in this iconic venue. London follows in the footsteps of Seoul, where Gucci showed it previous Cruise collection at...

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Lecturer’s address: ‘The fashion industry needs to reinvent itself', what role can AMFI play in this?

The environmentally polluting fashion industry urgently needs to 'reinvent' itself. That is what José Teunissen, programme director at the Amsterdam Fashion Institute (AMFI), argued in her lecturer's address on Tuesday. How can her own education contribute to making the industry greener? “The Chinese online clothing company Shein burns 1 billion...

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Nike responds to criticism over women's Olympic track and field kit

Nike and several USA Olympic athletes have stepped forward to address online controversy concerning the brand’s designs for the women's Team USA track and field kit following the circulation of a certain photo earlier this month. The US sportswear giant initially unveiled its Olympic uniforms for the United States of America and other countries...

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The flamenco dress, an Andalusian classic evolving with fashion

Luis Fernandez's workshop in Seville's Old City is buzzing with customers who have come to try on his dazzling array of flamenco dresses, their vibrant fabrics replete with voluptuous ruffles and polka dots. Flamenco fashion hits its annual peak in springtime when towns and cities across Spain's southern Andalusia region hold their annual...

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Giving a second life to fashion's deadstocks

At the Nona Source showroom in northern Paris, designers pick through luxurious textiles with ornate names: curly alpaca, geometrical macrame guipure, silk diamond cloque Jacquard. What makes them really exotic, however, is that they all come from "deadstocks" -- the leftovers designers discard when they have finished with a roll of fabric....

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QS World University Rankings 2024 unveil top universities for art and design

Higher education data platform Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) published its 2024 ranking for the world’s top universities to study art and design last week. The Royal College of Art (RCA) in London has come out on top for the second year in a row. The University of the Arts London, known for its London College of Fashion (LCF) and Central Saint...