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BMW and Vogue partnership reveals next wave of sustainable design talent

In a pioneering fusion of automotive and fashion design, BMW has partnered with British Vogue to celebrate emerging talent through their Future Creators Design Competition, highlighting a growing trend of cross-industry collaboration in sustainable luxury design. The competition, which attracted hundreds of entries from emerging designers,...

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From design, supply, distribution, marketing to retail: How AI is being used in the fashion industry

Attention fashion brands and retailers: how you can use Artificial Intelligence to make your business more intelligent and/or efficient “Artificial intelligence (AI) can make the fashion industry smarter,” said Matthew Drinkwater, head of the Fashion Innovation Agency at the London College of Fashion and specialist in new technologies and their...

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This is how a fashion brand's collection is created

What is involved in the development of a fashion collection exactly? FashionUnited has covered everything, from the design and production process to the journey your garment makes from the drawing board to the shop shelf, in this background article. We will start at the beginning, with an explanation of what a fashion collection actually is,...

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When fashion and architecture meet: designer Kristin Brady at Metropolitan Fashion Week

At the end of September, the annual Metropolitan Fashion Week took place in LA, celebrating its 10th anniversary. Like every year, the gala focused on fashion and costume design, showing creations of the participants in front of LA’s eye-catching city hall building – a particularly fitting backdrop, as this year’s motto for the costume...

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Vogue Scandinavia wins Red Dot Design Award 2021

Vogue Scandinavia Just launched fashion magazine Vogue Scandinavia and Finnish forest products manufacturer Stora Enso have won the Red Dot Design Award in the “brands & communication” category for their renewable eco-packaging concept created to replace plastics in magazine packaging. That means starting with a bang for the Scandinavian edition...

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SS22 Fashion Trend Snack: the top 5 prints

Of all the trends for next season, Christine Boland’s Trend Snack gives a ‘bite size’ report of the 5 must-do colours, fabrics, textures, patterns, silhouettes etc to incorporate into your fashion collection. Today: it’s all about the prints. #1 Shadow effects as seen @ Fendi & Victoria Beckham Image credit: Fendi SS22, Catwalkpictures, Pexels...

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Top 6 reasons for choosing 3D designs

A realistic fit, a more efficient and sustainable way of working, saving costs and gathering valuable data: These are just a few of the many benefits digitisation provides the fashion industry with. According to Alvanon, the global leader in fashion technology, 3D design is the next necessary and logical step towards professionalising the...

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Timberland- Designing a brand with global appeal and local expertise

One of the most recognisable and popular brands in the world, premium outdoor lifestyle brand Timberland has truly universal appeal, with many people across the globe having owned a pair of its iconic yellow boots at some point in their lives. Recently, the brand has undergone an intensive Creative Vision project in which it looked back at its...

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Inside Selfridges Duke Street, London

The luxury retail chain has a new entrance, uniting Selfridge's two historic buildings. This project creates a new continuous floor plan for the new accessories hall, while preserving the original building's neo-classical architectural elements. ‘Selfridges has a deep understanding of the architectural heritage and urban presence of the...

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Video: What Pantone Book to Use for Fashion Designers (TCX vs TPX?!)

If you work in fashion, you have to use Pantone colors. But how do you know what colors to use? And what's the difference between TCX & TPX codes? This video will tell you what you need to know. Source: Youtube, Sew Heidi, Pantone

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Redress Design Awards proves that fashion doesn’t have to be wasteful

An exhibit featuring pieces from the Redress Design Awards 2018 opened at Fashion for Good Experience in Amsterdam. The diverse array of collections were made entirely from waste, ranging from the usual suspects of dead stock textile and surplus materials from manufacturing, to more unusual contributors such as furniture offcuts and sofa...

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Video: Victoria's Secret 2018 | Set Design

A look at the set design process of the Victoria's Secret show.