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Fashion Business Models Battling it Out: Can Inclusivity and Exclusivity Coexist?

Exclusivity has always been one of fashion’s fundamentals - a key pillar that drives hype, intrigue and most importantly, business, for the world’s biggest and smallest brands. But the pandemic changed things. As shoppers were forced to take their window-shopping online, so too did retailers embrace e-commerce as an alternative shopfront....

26 Apr 2022

Retail

Shopperbird: inclusion and diversity for a more transparent fashion industry.

As years pass and climate change becomes a heating topic (that just touched 1.7° in 2022), shoppers are getting more aware of what they wear and where they buy it from. People have struggled, and still are, when it comes to trusting fashion brands. Greenwashing, inaction and manipulative marketing campaigns are a desperate call from leading...

25 Apr 2022

Business

Vaseline launches platform aiming to improve skin healthcare for people of colour

Petroleum jelly specialist Vaseline has launched a new online database designed to diversify the search of conditions for skin of colour, in a bid to help users get the proper care required for their skin. See My Skin, created alongside digital health company Hued and medical informatics firm VisualDx, comes as a response to the lack of...

19 Apr 2022

Fashion

Male model dismisses gender norms in an evolving Saudi Arabia

With his hot pink hair extensions and leopard print pantsuit, model Ziad al-Mesfer was bound to turn heads during his recent public photo shoot in deeply conservative Saudi Arabia. Passers-by began sneaking pictures on their mobiles merely minutes after Mesfer emerged from his white luxury car onto the cobbled sidewalks of a high-end cafe...

19 Apr 2022

BusinessFeatured

Tommy Hilfiger to launch podcast telling ‘untold stories’ of Black community

PVH Corp-owned Tommy Hilfiger is set to launch a five-part podcast series which will highlight the overlooked contributions of Black culture and communities to American fashion. Entitled The Invisible Seam: Unsung Stories of Black Culture, the weekly series has been developed through the brand’s People’s Place Programme and in partnership with...

15 Apr 2022

Fashion

David Koma and Koral collaborate on ‘luxeleisure’ capsule

British designer David Koma has partnered with the founder and creative director of Koral, Ilana Kugel, on a sportswear capsule that sees the duo’s design styles come together. The 24-piece ‘luxeleisure’ collection, a term coined by Koma and Kugel, was designed with the intention of appealing to a metropolitan lifestyle, the release said, seen...

15 Apr 2022

Fashion |Interview Featured

Female-led start-up removes the bias from artificial technology in fashion

Artificial Intelligence has been plagued by accusations of inaccuracy and of being a vehicle for racial profiling. Perpetuating the biases of its programmers, who are often young, white Silicon Valley males, the technology seemed to have become just another gatekeeper to prevent the already marginalized from being considered for jobs or...

14 Apr 2022

Fashion Featured

Breaking the Binary: Fashion’s Next Frontier

Over the last century, milestones in equity and inclusion led by figures in the queer liberation and feminist movements have advanced the understanding that gender is a spectrum rather than a rigid binary. Now, fluidity is one of the defining characteristics of the current age, with a growing number of people identifying as non-binary, trans,...

4 Apr 2022

Business

Levi’s publishes first DE&I Impact Report with plan to drive diversity

Levi Strauss & Co. has published its first Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DE&I) Impact Report, in a bid to transparently communicate its progress in the area. For some elements of the report, partial progress was evident in the company’s figures. For example, its executive leadership team now consists of more women than men, with 61.5 percent...

1 Apr 2022

Fashion Featured

Bringing sexy back to fashion while redefining gender codes

International catwalk regular Teddy Quinlivan who came out as trans at the height of her modeling fame in 2017 told guests at the Fairchild Media Group’s Diversity Forum last week, “We are really on the precipice of a cultural turning point.” Speaking on a panel entitled, “Redefining sexuality and style for any gender, what will it take?” she...

30 Mar 2022

Business

Gap assembles advisory board to drive systemic change

Multi-brand group Gap Inc. has brought together The Power of the Collective Council to build upon its efforts of pushing for systemic change and advocating for historically marginalised communities. As part of its 2025 commitment, Create For All, With All, the new council has been tasked with addressing three strategic pillars - Community,...

3 Mar 2022

Fashion

Harlem’s Fashion Row reveals Barbie collab with designers of colour

Inclusive arts and entertainment agency Harlem’s Fashion Row (HFR) has revealed a collaboration with Barbie in the form of a clothing capsule for the doll designed by designers of colour. Three designers took part in the initiative, each presenting pieces for Barbie inspired by garments from their own collections. “Since its inception, Barbie...

25 Feb 2022